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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 07:58 PM EDT |
Really? Apple has true strengths that their competitors
lack - they are good at focusing on user experience for the
average user and actually have taste. They have a secondary
strengths in that they have a developed ecosystem and a
strong brand.
They aren't particularly inventive or good at any sort of
programming.
Thing I don't understand is why they didn't aim for an Ipod-
like market. If they'd wanted to kill Android - all they'd
have needed to do was move to about 20% margins - given
their volumes - everyone else would have lost _a lot_ of
money to sell at enough of a discount to persuade people.
They could easily have ended up with M$-style monopoly in
the tablet/smartphone market.
Instead, they seem focused on maintaining high margins for
as long as possible - and lawsuits are a small part of that
strategy. (Of course, part of their appeal is being a
premium product, so cutting prices might not have helped
their market share that much...there was some Korean
knicknack that sold better at 25 USD than 0.25 USD...)
--Erwin
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