Re:1 Billion Paid out through the Apple App Store - Really?
by p0ppe on Sunday June 20, 2010 @07:57PM
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Some more; "But it no longer is the exclusive superphone, and I am afraid that Apple has now forever abandoned the top end of the market to Nokia, Samsung and SonyEricsson. Apple moved downstream. And that battle is far more tough than the top-end market."
Here's what he had to say when the 3G was released; "Now I fear Apple is entering into a similar mis-step it did with desktop computers with the Macintosh line some years back, when they tried to take on Windows computers head-on, tough low-cost pricing and almost identical feature set and just fighting the "moving boxes" game. Apple is far too expensive a design company to be able to afford to win in that game. That is mass market bulk game, and the winners will inevitably be those with the scale to crush Apple, ie Nokia, Samsung, LG." Doesn't really seem to be what has happened.