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This Is The Chart That Should Have Apple A Little Bit Worried

• coldtea 13y ago
  >Well, the reason smart phone market share matters is that in technology, profits tend to accrue over time to the dominant platform. What happens is one platform becomes the standard, and developers focus their attention on that platform. As they focus on that platform, they abandon the other platform, and it becomes a second tier player. When that happens, consumers become less interested. How exactly did that work out with Wintel vs Mac profits, 30 years down the line? Oh, right, Apple makes as much profit from desktop/laptop sales as the 3 biggest Wintel vendors combined...