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>Selling tiny computers with mobile broadband is clearly going to be the biggest hardware business for the next 10+ years and 10 years from now the device that
by drivebyacct2 14y ago
>Selling tiny computers with mobile broadband is clearly going to be the biggest hardware business for the next 10+ years and 10 years from now the device that generates the bulk of Apple's revenues will probably still be called an iPhone.
It is completely my opinion, but I also suspect the opinion of others that if that's Apple's strategy, they're in for a very rude awakening. They're taking an increasingly smaller portion of the pie and there is a lot of pie left to take.
- Steko 14y agoThis misses the point badly. If you and me owned a unicycle factory... let's say we're #1 in the world for sales and quality and let's say that China's leaders wake up tomorrow and decide to ban bicycles and push unicycles, turns out the new leader of China's nephew runs China Unicycle. Now the fact that we're rapidly losing global market share to China Unicycle is going to be far less relevant to us than the fact that our sales are going to be going through the roof.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI have no idea what that analogy is supposed to mean.
- Steko 14y agoIt's easier to sell the world's best unicycle to someone who actually rides unicycles then to someone who's used to buying bicycles. The fact that a half a billion people who bought flip phones 2 years ago bought cheap smartphones this year isn't bad for Apple's business, it's good.