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You also have to consider if you think apple could continue to keep their margins in an established tablet market, and a smartphone market approaching 'good eno
by polshaw 15y ago
You also have to consider if you think apple could continue to keep their margins in an established tablet market, and a smartphone market approaching 'good enough' like that of PCs today, and whether consumers will continue to accept a 'walled garden' as tablets become primary computing devices.
E: I'd like to clarify I'm including stuff like no USB ports in walled garden.
- intended 15y agoThis next statement is probably going to get me nuked, but: I think people have accepted the walled garden model and they like it. In a perverse way, their success is partly because of the PC era itself. The lowered expectations people have of computational devices from windows makes. Having something that "Just works" such a blessing, for such a ridiculous portion of all consumers, that their "walled garden" translates into "sanctuary" for most human beings. IF in the future mature market, other tablets have also reached a stage where "it just works", then its an even playing field. At that point,the walled garden will be just another field to walk between. Edited for clarity