Couldn't you argue that Apple made Nokia and RIMM obsolete almost overnight in part because the App Store is a lot more open?
And now they're making the PSP and DS obsolete because it's so much easier to get a game on the iPhone. Moandji -- www.moandjiezana.com Sent from my phone On 11 Dec 2010 04:55, "phil swenson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you saying Windows won because it's open? > > Linux is way more open than Windows and it certainly hasn't won. > > > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Miroslav Pokorny > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 9, 12:41 pm, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > I wonder if in a few years time, we >>> > will say yes Apple screwed up they repeated the mistakes of the MAC on >>> > iOS. >>> >>> Apple is in the business of making money. By licensing out iOS to >>> third parties, Apple would get just iOS license revenue and see >>> inferior products because you generally build better products if you >>> build the entire thing yourself. Let's say the about 25 million iOS >>> devices Apple sold sold last quarter were built by somebody else, but >>> Apple got 30 dollars license fee a pop (that's pretty expensive - >>> Window Phone 7 is rumored to be around $25 a phone). Makes $750 >>> million revenue and about $640 million profit (at 85% gross margin, >>> which is Microsoft / IBM territory). Now last quarter, Apple's profit >>> was around $4.3 billion. iOS accounts for about 70% of Apple's >>> revenue, so lets be generous and say iOS only got 60% of the profits - >>> that's $2.6 billion. Hmm.... And that doesn't even account for supply >>> chain efficiencies like Flash storage that is used across Macs and iOS >>> (Apple is estimated to buy about 40% of the worldwide Flash storage) >>> and - to a lesser degrees - shared code between iOS and OS X. >>> >> >> But their closed model did not win out, Wintel became the defacto standard >> that it is today, you might not like Microsoft, but they did the PC war and >> they made a stack of money. Looking back it is quite clear that Microsoft >> made the right decision, and IBM and Apple did not. Now the fact that >> Microsoft has sort of gotten lost with the internet is another topic. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
