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Apple is the most valued (market cap) platform company because it owns the affluence market and commands high margins across the board. Google has gone after t
by jjindev 13y ago
Apple is the most valued (market cap) platform company because it owns the affluence market and commands high margins across the board. Google has gone after the "next billion" users, people who don't have that kind of money. MS might be trapped in the middle, neither sexy enough to be Apple nor cheap enough to be Google.
- bornhuetter 13y agoYour comments only really apply to the consumer market. Microsoft's position in enterprise is extremely strong. Apple is not making any serious attempt to challenge that (and probably never will), but Google (and Linux) pose a real threat to Microsoft in the long run.
- jjindev 13y agoYes. I was thinking in terms of the three as consumer platform companies.