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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by DennisAleynikov on Saturday September 01, 2018 @09:31PM (#17894965)
it's paid off handsomely and cut off apples prospects of expanding beyond the 15% market share they currently enjoy. sure owning 15% of the global smartphone market makes them money but androids 85% share ensures googles dominance in the sector unless apple lowers some of its hardware walls and turns them into bridges.

#buildbridgesnotwalls

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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by debaserab2 on Saturday September 01, 2018 @10:06PM (#17895096)
What does market share matter when you've captured the part of the market where all the significant margins are?
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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by DennisAleynikov on Sunday September 02, 2018 @04:58PM (#17898604)
A company that trades like a railroad company shouldn't be gloating about how little of the market share they want. there is no room for apple to expand with their rich people first strategy. Eventually you run out of new rich people to sell your products to.

Apples investors do not expect them to grow much more unlike Google or Facebook which both act as monopolies in both the smartphone and online markets. I'm sure apple knows what it wants but it sure doesn't show any abition to take over the world with their products.

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