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Platforms – Past, Present and Future
- Oletros 11y ago> — Closed creates markets (see Macintosh and iPhone); What market created the iPhone? And after reading all the "article", it is only another Kirk article about how good Apple is and how bad are the others
- cjg 11y agoI think his point was that the closed iPhone created the smart phone market.
- cromwellian 11y agoExcept that smartphones existed before the iPhone, even App Stores did, but they were primarily business user focused.I mean, I had a Kyocera Palm Phone, which was one of the first PalmOS phones in 20011.
- corv 11y agoNo, the article is about how marketshare isn't everything when you've got high value customers.