On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 5:06 PM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's a short-term type of "fsking great" tho. > > If you call a decade of blasting competitors out of the high end > market "short term". Apple owns a huge amount of very desirable > market share and have become masters at using existing market > dominance in one area to carve out new markets in other areas. The > iPhone is just part of a strategy that has high end customers > clamoring to buy anything they make, not just iPhones, and the way I > see it, it's been going on for more than 10 years now since they > started the iMac product line in 1998.
They were doing pretty good 20 years ago, neh? I started supporting Apple when OS X came out, and they seemed to be embracing open source, contributing back, yadda yadda. Going intel, was good stuff. Then they started sliding back. Treating customers as a commodity or some such. Not seeming to be contributing much back... getting all imperial again. It's funny, but Microsoft seems to be doing more Good and Apple more Evil. This is all just musing, "feelings" and whatnot, I dunno how "real" it REALLY > Porche doesn't want to ell a car to everyone. Apple doesn't want to > sell a phone to everyone. They are defining their own market and then > they are owning that market. > > They are currently using the dominance of the iPhone to wedge their > way into VOIP and the handheld video calls market. In my humble > opinion iPhone 4's biggest win for Apple is Facetime. Skype should > feel VERY threatened by facetime services. If Apple can take a > significant chunk of VOIP and video calls they are going to be moving > into a whole new market. > > -Cameron > > ... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322061 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
