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Your point on 1) is ridiculous. For every unit sold, there is a person behind it that bought that phone over iPhone. Just because a small percentage of people

• sonnyblarney 7y ago
  Commenters on HN often lack basic economic sensibility, the comments related to material business issues, particularly finance and economics are odd. My point #1, is the opposite of ridiculous, it's the point. Companies dominate by making money, that's what they care about. Do you not grasp that Samsung, Huawei, end everyone else would instantly trade their position for Apple's? Do you not think that Apple's 50x greater profits doesn't give them enormous leverage? That Apple is selling into a competitive market, and still yields profits and margins massively greater than others is pretty amazing, it doesn't happen in other industries. Apple is clearly the dominant power in mobile, and their next rival is not a handset maker, it's Google. As to my original point: Apple is a huge, powerful and important company, and others will take note of what they do. They are a 'leader' in every sense of the term, it would be 'ridiculous' to deny that. When America's most profitable and admired company that manufactures stuff in China decides to leave - it's a shockwave.