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That's what great about competition. It kicks you in the pants and reminds you you need to try. iPhone scared the shit out of the phone market and today we hav
by dmix 4y ago
That's what great about competition. It kicks you in the pants and reminds you you need to try.
iPhone scared the shit out of the phone market and today we have great phones from Samsung and Google which dominate the market. If everyone was trying to predict the smartphone market in 2007 they'd be talking about how Nokia missed the boat but excited to see their response (or Motorola/Sony/Blackberry etc). The market today won't necessarily be the market in 10yrs from now. It might be Google, they have a solid head start to be #2 and future #1, but who knows what will happen and whether that talent/advantage stays in Google.
It could just as easily be other companies we don't even consider serious players today.
- nr2x 4y ago* dominate the low-end of the market. Apple has the platform where users have money to spend on apps and services.
- 76SlashDolphin 4y ago* dominate the global market. Apple is a very minor player outside of the US and Japan.
- throwaway2037 4y ago"very minor player": I do not agree. I Googled for: "iphone market share by country" Here is the top hit: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-market-share-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma... What is wild to me: This is a single company. Android has a huge number of makers.
- canjobear 4y agoNearly 100% in North Korea!
- nr2x 4y agoI’m not in favor of it, but most of the global market is too poor to matter. One of the things I do respect Google for is providing services to poor people, but that doesn’t mean it’s a business advantage. If you offered me control of the entire Android ecosystem or just Apples iPhone business I’d not even blink to take Apple.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoThey also have the majority of profits in mobile phone sales.
- rvba 4y agoFrom technical perspective apple phones are usually few years behind competition.
- pharmakom 4y agoExcept in CPU / GPU which is a strange state of affairs.
- sentinalien 4y agoReally depends on what you're thinking of when you say technical
- rvba 4y agoMy Samsung phone was waterproof long before Apple had it.
- salad-tycoon 4y agoI bought an s7 or s10 which was waterproof and took photos under the water. Iirc apple was rumored to also be waterproof at the time but it was advertised. I don’t know how true these things were. Did anyone else get this perception?