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Yeah, the market is really "punishing" them all right: https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:
by mikeflynn 14y ago
Yeah, the market is really "punishing" them all right: https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL (stock currently at $663)
Google and Apple may have, at a high level, opposing strategies, but Apple's approach is being adopted more and more (app stores, having more control on the experience, etc...) and companies wouldn't do that if it wasn't working. Hell Google's own products, the ones where they stamp "Google" on the back of the device, are very much in the line of Apple's usual MO. Sure Android will always have a few more "geeky" features (app side-loading) but the Nexus 7 is very Apple-like in it's execution (...and it's great!).
tl;dr - Their business models aren't as different as the old Windows vs Mac comparison.
- cageface 14y agoApple's strategy assumes that a single company and a single line of devices can indefinitely command the lion's share of the most important computing platform of our time. This just doesn't seem tenable to me. For every consumer that's completely satisfied with the Apple experience there will be 3-4 others that prefer some other product for any number of reasons. When in the history of the world have we ever seen a single company and a single line of products dominate a mass-market consumer segment for more than a few years?