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The problem with his analysis is that Android is increasingly delivering better cheese and crackers as well at low margin. At the limit, I'd expect within a ye
by outside1234 14y ago
The problem with his analysis is that Android is increasingly delivering better cheese and crackers as well at low margin.
At the limit, I'd expect within a year or so that mobile devices go free on the low end to consumers with the real monetization strategy being selling in cloud services. It strikes me that Amazon is incredibly well placed for this, Google well placed, and Apple poorly placed (see maps, see iCloud, see their amateur hour have-to-take-the-store-offline-to-add-products).
Its hard to see given this how this doesn't play out exactly like the PC market, with Android sweeping up 90% of the market and Apple dwindling to the diehard 5%.
- addlepate 14y agoYes, many pundits have been calling for a repeat of the PC market, much to the delight of those of us who enjoy a nice spot of claim chowder. Hasn't happened yet. Speaking of the PC market, consider that the Mac's growth has been outpacing that of the PC for many quarters running now. See you in "a year or so".