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You can’t call ‘time out’ in Silicon Valley
- pedalpete 16y agoThe author misses a critical difference between winning a battle and winning the war. Apple won the first battle for the smartphone. Now google is winning, and based on analyst reports on the comments by the author, it may well be a fight between Google and Microsoft for the winner in the end. I doubt that the ipad 'took 5-percent market share'. They didn't sell 1/20th as many iPads as PCs did they? Windows 7 sold more than 90 million copies. Most people bought an iPad in addition to their PC (mac or windows). Those that I've spoken with who purchased an iPad as a replacement were very disappointed and ended up still using their pc.
- tzs 16y ago> Apple won the first battle for the smartphone. Now google is winning[...] Hardly. The Nexus series of phones have not exactly been tearing up the sales charts. Google is probably close to last in the battle for the smartphone. But that's OK, since Google is not seriously in the smartphone war. The companies in the smartphone war are Apple, Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on. Google's role is, to continue the war analogy, that of an arms supplier. They provide arms to some of the combatants.
- amahadik 16y agoI like your analogy of the arms supplier! Is Google making any money on the Android licensing though?
- amahadik 16y agoFrom personal experience, iPad is a great consumption/reading device. When you have to create powerpoints/excel sheets or write code, you still end up needing a desktop computer.