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"There would be no Uber and Lyft without the iPhone (and later the Android version), no Tinder, no Spotify" > This is clearly an exaggeration. Iphone clearly ha
by aphroz 8y ago
"There would be no Uber and Lyft without the iPhone (and later the Android version), no Tinder, no Spotify" > This is clearly an exaggeration. Iphone clearly had an impact on design and smartphone apps, but they did not invented it. They made it easier to install apps and monetize them. And invested a lot in marketing.
Apple strongest competitive advantage is their ability to make people pay and it seems to have reach its limit because you cannot ask people to pay more than 1000 USD for a phone when more competitors have similar products costing half.
- ksec 8y ago>This is clearly an exaggeration. I would argued it is not. Many had tried to make "Smartphones" for years before Apple. None of them succeeded. And Android prototype were like blackberry before the iPhone announcement. People often look back and think what we have today was so simple and inevitable, but when it actually first happen it was pure genius.
- Paianni 8y agoThe LG Prada came pretty close...
- aphroz 8y agoWhat do you call success? If you call success having 30% market share, then you are right. But HTC had smartphones, Nokia as well. They made it a commercial success, but saying that we would have no Spotify without Apple is an exaggeration. Because even without smartphone we would have had Spotify.