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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
I am not worried for Apple. They are NOT the next Microsoft.
iPad sales have slowed, but so has the Kindle Fire. The difference is that the majority of iPads that were bought are still being used, while the majority of Kindle Fires ended up on eBay and/or broke and people upgraded to the Nexus 7, Galaxy Tabs, and others.
For every person that still owns and uses an iPad 1, there are probably 10 who have bought two or more Android tablets since then.
The same can be said for Macs and iPhones. There are more people with 2007/8 MacBook Pros than with Dell laptops from that same year. There are more people with the iPhone 4 (not 4S) than there are those still using a Samsung Galaxy S2.
And the same thing with iPods, which is why Apple recalled the Nano five years after the fact, and if anything else came up with the others, would probably be doing the same procedure now.
iOS 7 has received a lot of negative press, but at the end of the day, it's nowhere near the amount of hate Windows 8 has received. Android guys don't complain about KitKat, but the majority of them probably haven't even seen Jelly Bean.
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First, I should clarify that I am typing this from my Samsung Galaxy S2. I own a new-to-me 2009 Mac Book PRO, but also a 2007 Linux netbook. The reason I have all of these things is that there are still software packages for them that allow the old hardware to run modern programs. My SGS2 has been rooted and custom rommed to Jelly Bean and may be upgraded yet again in the coming days. The MacBook is running Mavericks (and then will be switched to Linux once Apple stops support). The netbook runs the latest Web browsers like a breeze with its ever-upgradable Linux.
The house in which I work (as a nanny) originally went iDevice and Windows computer. They have replaced the iDevices with Kindle Fires because of the universality of charger cables with their Android smart phones. They have also gone with Linux rather than Windows8.
From what I have seen, it is Apple's desire to keep their plugs proprietary and the marked difficulty of not being fully invested in the ecosystem (an iPhone to a Linux computer is a nightmare, an Android is a piece of cake) is what is killing their growth. Either that or it is that they make durable goods so no one needs to buy a new computer (growth or sustained sales) if the one they have is still working brilliantly. For planned obsolescence (aka "growth"), Apple isn't doing such a good job, whereas Dell has it in the bag.