Re:Why is WinPhone a failure but OSX a success?
by mamcx on Friday September 06, 2013 @09:09PM
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For a lot of reasons.
OSX have a profitable section of the market. Is not the size what determine if something is or not a failure, is your POSITION in that market.
Having 90% of all the non-paying customer VS 10% of all the paying customers is a different position for a for-profit company. In this case, you truly want the 10%.
If WinPhone have a desirable portion of the market, untouched/unchallenged by others, then could be called a success.
Le't use a contrived example: vim/emacs have a strong position in a desirable sub-set of the developer mindshare. His position is so strong, that no-IDE to date have be able to destroy it.
Then if also is growing, is something powerful.
Let's play the (almost incorrect) stereotype of the Apple users: Them are hipster, richer, more creative, select for themselves the gadgets, etc. And pay. This segment, even at %1, is valuable. And if nobody else touch it, then is more than valuable, is unchallenged. Could be say: Is bullet-prof, failure-prof.
And then android. Android is for geeks (and the masses that wanna cheap). Have the subset of geeks is desirable. Probably, a lot of android users hate so bad Apple that will never use it. The position of Android in that case is solid.
OSX have a profitable section of the market. Is not the size what determine if something is or not a failure, is your POSITION in that market.
Having 90% of all the non-paying customer VS 10% of all the paying customers is a different position for a for-profit company. In this case, you truly want the 10%.
If WinPhone have a desirable portion of the market, untouched/unchallenged by others, then could be called a success.
Le't use a contrived example: vim/emacs have a strong position in a desirable sub-set of the developer mindshare. His position is so strong, that no-IDE to date have be able to destroy it.
Then if also is growing, is something powerful.
Let's play the (almost incorrect) stereotype of the Apple users: Them are hipster, richer, more creative, select for themselves the gadgets, etc. And pay. This segment, even at %1, is valuable. And if nobody else touch it, then is more than valuable, is unchallenged. Could be say: Is bullet-prof, failure-prof.
And then android. Android is for geeks (and the masses that wanna cheap). Have the subset of geeks is desirable. Probably, a lot of android users hate so bad Apple that will never use it. The position of Android in that case is solid.
Both have solid position.
Windows phone? No have it.