Thread: Apple's War on Android
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Old 04-02-2012, 07:30 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
How exactly is Apple's technology losing?
Does 18% of the smartphone market share (worldwide, in US it's 25%) sound bad enough?

It's heading the same way on tablet front, with Apple losing market share a bit faster than anticipated.

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Originally Posted by wizwor
Microsoft always wins.
Zune, cough? Bing, cough? Smartphones, cough? Oh, it has captured whopping couple of % of the market and turned excellent hardware manufacturer, Nokia, into a zombie? That's quite an achievement...

Oh, you've mentioned Internet Explorer. Note that it only won vs Netscape (which cost money) And note that it payed for this "victory" about 1 billion, to avoid going to court. Because the only way, Microsoft is successfull "competing" is when abusing one of its monopolistic powers. But there we go with IE:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_s...f_web_browsers


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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
The problem with this analysis is that comparable tablet makers haven't (and don't seem to be able to) match apple on price.
Not sure about comparable, but superior tablets, like Samsung Galaxy 10.1 (it's only after ipad3 is out, that people discover, that ipad2 color gamut sucked) or Asus Prime are normally 50$-ish cheaper than Apple's.
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