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Apple's business model doesn't lend itself to getting a monopoly lock on any business they're in. Their primary products are application platforms. How on eart
by peoplewindow 9y ago
Apple's business model doesn't lend itself to getting a monopoly lock on any business they're in.
Their primary products are application platforms. How on earth do you reason that their business models don't lend themselves to lockin, when it's the exact same business model that created Microsoft?
- cc81 9y agoI think he means that Apple sells premium hardware. There will always be huge group that cannot afford that.
- peoplewindow 9y agoBy definition, if you achieve monopoly lockin you can charge whatever price you like. There are people who can't afford / would rather not pay for Windows but find they have to anyway, due to some business critical app they need. They're locked in. That's the point.
- on_and_off 9y agopremium is kinda debatable when we are talking about phones. They are heavily subsidized by the phone operators in most markets (sure you end up paying at least as much to the operator, but most people only see the upfront cost). There are always multiple generations on sale at the same time, and lower cost iterations of the current gen as well. Not to mention refurbished phones. In the USA, iOS is roughly half of the smartphone landscape. Yeah, the less costly iPhone is more costly than the cheapest Android phone, but I don't think it can be said that it is premium hardware.