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...this is exactly what people don't seem to understand. Lots of people buy Fords and Hondas, and not so many people buy BMWs and Mercedes Benzs, but there's st
by objclxt 14y ago
...this is exactly what people don't seem to understand. Lots of people buy Fords and Hondas, and not so many people buy BMWs and Mercedes Benzs, but there's still room in the market for both categories, and BMW and Ford both turn a profit. I don't know why it need to be a 'winner takes all' scenario when it comes to tablets.
- jlgreco 14y agoI think it is because ever since the 90s we don't think a company is "winning" until the DoJ starts getting worried about anti-trust stuff. Profit is not good enough, a company must start crushing its competition beneath its feet until people in tech can declare a "victory"; until that happens we have to keep cheering/jeering.
- jerf 14y agoNetwork effect. The more people on platform X, the more developers on platform X and the more attractive it is to users, and so on. While this simplistic model suggests a full winner-take-all model, history strongly suggests one often ends up with two markets, the "high cost, lower penetration" & the "low cost, higher penetration". Most recently, Apple OSX vs. Microsoft Windows. But the resulting duopoly can be as impenetrable as the simplistic monopoly to an upstart.