09-04-2012, 03:59 PM | #106 |
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And many of those sheeple will look at all this and begin to think...particularly when Apple continues to rehash the same old small cramped, limited and restricted capability phones and tablets.
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At some point, increasing market share means reducing margins. There is only so much high-end market to go around.
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Unless you're saying that Apple has already reached a point of saturation in overseas markets for high end devices, then you're just reinforcing my point that taking a larger market share would be lucrative for Apple overseas. Graham |
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I think the more interesting bit is the first part:
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At some point will Samsung get fed up of being reliant on Google for Android updates and progress, and spin off their own OS? Why provide the Google app store and let Google take a cut of all app sales, when they could run their own store instead? (Much as Amazon have decided to do with the Fire.) |
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They aren't overcharging. They are charging what the market will bear. Apple must be extremely good at figuring out what prices the market will bear, as otherwise they wouldn't be the most financially successful company in the world.
I'd like Apple better if I thought it would result in another Bill and Milanda Gates Foundation. But even without that, I fail to see why Apple customers are more deserving of money than Apple stockholders. Given the big pension plan holdings in Apple stock (largely through index funds), I suspect Apple stockholders are less affluent than Apple device buyers, and better deserve the money. Full disclosure is that I do participate in a S&P 500-invested pension plan, and I don't buy Apple products. So this post is pure self-interest |
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You don't get it do you, these lawsuits are not even about the smartphone market, it's about the patent system, it's about intellectual property, it's way bigger than smartphones and with way more players than these two.
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