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Originally Posted by HarryT
Are you suggesting that Apple's business strategy is a failure? If so, I must respectfully disagree. They still have the lion's share of the premium smartphone and tablet markets, and that's where the real profit is, not the bottom end of the market. How many zillions do they have as cash in the bank?
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I'm suggesting that it is unsustainable in the long term. Historically, today's top end is tomorrow's middle end and day after tomorrow's low end. What ever "walled garden" you are in is the garden you tend to stay in, as the change over cost is too high. That was what Microsoft lived off of for decades. It's the zillions of low-end buyers who are not going into the Apple "walled garden", going into the android "walled garden" instead. They aren't going to pitch out their built-up environment just because they could later afford an iPhone...