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http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianki...-the-increase/ Perhaps if you're talking about a single model then you could make that argument. Otherwise it's simply untrue. The majority of people, 80% per that article, choose not to pay for the Apple name, or can't afford to. I remember Apple booming in the early home computing days too. Good product, nice interface, but proprietary and expensive. They refused to allow other hardward vendors to license their OS. Eventually that landed them where they are now in the computer OS market, a 4-8% share. That same thing could happen in the mobile market. I know ![]()
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It just seems tthe mobile market is a situation with a likelihood of following the same path as the PC market. The similarities are undeniable. Apple computers were IT. Graphical User Interface was born. Nobody had seen anything like it. They had some of the best applications, only written for Apple OS, like Adobe products. Apple had RISC based CPUs, far more efficient and faster than Intel's x86. They had SCSI bus controllers/HDs, much faster and more robust than IDE or Micro-Cannel. Apple even setup special discounts for schools to kids would get used to their GUI and want/buy one as they grew older. Yet Microsoft came along and licensed their OS, DOS and eventually Windows, to IBM and other hardware manufacturers. Soon, the IBM "clones" surpassed Apple's sales. Not long after they dwarfed Apple's numbers. The same principles are in place now. A very popular OS that is hardware specific is now being outsold by an OS that is licensed to dozens of hardware manufacturers who sell at a fraction of the price. Apple held so tight to their hardware, refusing to license the OS, that eventually they became a niche market in the PC world.
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“Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar;” Mark Twain Last edited by 357; 09-17-2012 at 01:34 PM. |
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The problem for me to switch to Android is that I like using the iPhone OS so much better than Android. I am seriously thinking about switching to an android with a larger screen but I can't stand the Android OS. The Droid can have all these features and the OS can derail it for me. Apple has designed a wonderful system.
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Ditat Deus
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Thats why Samsung owes Apple $1 Billion
![]() I kid I kid One reason an iPhone makes sense, for me at least, is that I have an Apple laptop and iPad. The syncing between devices and cloud storage is really nice. I know that there are also ways to do it for Android devices as well with dropbox and other ways that are offered, but I like having everything the same and the syncing all built in.
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On the inside looking out
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Feeling at Home
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