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43 posts tagged ios
Both Are Winning
Google is winning market share. Apple is winning profit share. What is more interesting than owning a unprofitable market segment?
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JFMartin
“Did Apple just merged Windows Phone 8 with Android?”
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JFMartin
“To put this another way, looking at ‘smartphone share’ or ‘profit share’ or ‘platform share’ all tell you something about the industry, but all three metrics mislead you if you try to treat them as a way to see who’s ‘winning’, because ‘winning’ means different things for Apple, Samsung or Google. After all, Google may well still make more money from searches on iOS than it does from searches on Android.”
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JFMartin
A World Without Android
Certainly a valid point of view. Carriers have a love and hate relationship with Apple. Someone else would have given what they wanted in order to get market share an compete against Apple.
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97% of iOS users can use Google Now (iOS 5.0+). 25% of Android users can use Google Now (Jelly Bean+).
Fragmentation not a big deal?
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Loyalty Gives Apple the Edge Over Android
I think Apple’s strengths are twofold: brand loyalty and the ecosystem. Both combined creates a powerful juggernaut that isn’t easy to compete against. Having great hardware alone isn’t enough (Samsung), having services isn’t enough (Google), having loyal users alone doesn’t cut it.
Apple has both and listening to Tim Cook’s comments on the last conference call, I’m sure Apple has some plans to build on top of this in order to offer powerful new offerings to Apple customers.
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JFMartin
“If you think people are getting bored with iOS shinny design, wait a few more months and see how people will be bored on flat designs like Windows Phone 8.”
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Apple Opening Up a bit ?
I was surprised by this GarageBand update that introduced support for a third party app like Audiobus. Is this a first?
Regarding Podcasts 1.2 update getting rid of the Tape deck player: I think Apple is fixing things up following users complains about it.
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JFMartin
“If iOS Is Five Years Old, Then BlackBerry 10 Is Five Years Late”
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Who bashing who?
In the new this week in the smartphone industry, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins thinks the iOS and the iPhone are passé things. Samsung has an opinion on Windows 8 success and prefers to sell plastic devices with a “soul” while Apple is trying hard to revive itself according to the respected BGR.com.
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