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From Altair to iPad: 35 years of personal computer market share
- jedberg 14y agoIt's interesting that Apple, despite their success, is basically in the same place as it was -- having a software company beat them by making an OS that runs on myriad hardware.
- ThJ 14y agoWho cares about that? They're the most profitable tech company on the planet. They make more money on that market share now than anyone else. The fact is that Apple's market share is so huge that the author's comparing it, not to Samsung's or HTC's market share, but the entire Android ecosystem. Hardly any of the companies that make smartphones really advertise their products as Android phones, apart from putting that little green droid on the box.
- RexRollman 14y agoI don't agree that the iPad was "an entirely new catagory" of computing. Tablet based computers had existed for some time (Windows For Pen Computing and PenPoint OS comes to mind).