Thread: Apple's War on Android
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Old 04-02-2012, 10:20 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
First movers *always* lose market share. Nobody ever keeps 100% of the market they pioneer; not IBM, not Microsoft, not Palm, not Google, not Amazon, and certainly not Apple. It is naive or deluded to expect/pretend otherwise.
Cisco routers? Microsoft Office?

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Originally Posted by fjtorres
They still remain market leaders and everybody else remains followers.
What does that mean? How is Android OS that does what iOS does and much more on top of it for years "a follower"? How is Samsung "a follower"? (25%-ish smartphone market share worldwide) What is Apple's version of Galaxy Note? 7" tablet? Samsung's TVs? Screens?

High margin means somebody is ripped of. Some (Confucius among them) believe(d) this is bad for society.
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