Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks

Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by onetimemanytime on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:08PM (#18897481)

Well, Apple reached $1 Trillion in market cap in 2018. Odds were that the only way was down...you can't keep growing at 20% qtr to qtr forever, or you'd own the world.

Add the fact that today's smartphones do 99% of what people want and new ones are not that much better to justify spending $1000 on them. Add Android competitors from all over the world and you have a very profitable Apple, but not one growing like a "startup."

Cheaper iPhone? Maybe, but the $500 iPhone would way worst than a $500 Android one made by others so...

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by Marsymars on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:17PM (#18897883)

> you can't keep growing at 20% qtr to qtr forever, or you'd own the world.

Yeah, a lot of people don't intuitively get this; but any growth above GDP growth is some part of the pie you're taking away from someone else.

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