You're not selling a device. You're selling User Experience and the ecosystem that's built around it.
The competition has yet to learn this.
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Apple's Share of Profits Among Top Mobile Phone Vendors Hits 75%
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You're not selling a device. You're selling User Experience and the ecosystem that's built around it.
The competition has yet to learn this.
Yep - I actually miss those days where NOT everyone had an iPhone and the iPhone 1 was rare and people were curious to see it. I went with it to Europe to a meeting and people flocked around me... And from the first switching it on I knew that I would never have another phone again (at that time flip phone).
Who were the red and the purple? Sad when your sales are not enough to give you room for your name.
Except that saying Apple's success in the future is assured at this point is like the Romans saying Rome's empire will last forever during Trajan's rule.
...And a few years later, Microsoft makes a touch screen OS for smartphones with no business features in an attempt to compete with it
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Sell to joe and jane yes. Making money off it not so much even for apple.
It was always surprising to me how little apple gets from itunes. Vs their profits from phone hardware.
Sell to joe and jane yes. Making money off it not so much even for apple.
It was always surprising to me how little apple gets from itunes. Vs their profits from phone hardware.
Wow, that chart is remarkable to look at. To see a titan like Nokia whither and die in 5 years is jaw dropping. Any business leader at risk of complacency needs to have this chart taped to their glasses-- this is what happens when you think you rule the world. You need to be proactive from beginning to end, because things can change too quickly to react.
I also love that this puts the lie to the model where success depends on shipping cheaper and cheaper crap in higher and higher volumes.
I also love that this puts the lie to the model where success depends on shipping cheaper and cheaper crap in higher and higher volumes.
Does the average customer even spend 100 dollars on iTunes services? 50 dollars? If you consider the 30% revenue straight as profit, that still adds up to a very small sum.
If you have an iPhone, how much do you spend on apps?
Versus the amount you've spent on your iPhone(s) plus (in the U.S.) 2 years worth of your cellular bill payments (a big portion of which goes to the iPhone price subsidy, and thus Apple's profits).
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These percentages are not that far out of line. In lots of market categories and professions, one rule of thumb is that the top 20% of customers produce 80% of the profits. Apple is skimming half of the cream on top. After that, it's diminishing returns. Selling stuff to blokes who have no money for the best bling (and hoping to make it up in volume) for the companies below.
Is the message bug part of that user experience that the competition has yet to learn?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1318251/
Samsung's profit increased as well.
That's the trouble with share charts like this one; they're relative instead of showing actual amounts.
Maybe you missed this part of the story:
You can probably get ANY machine to malfunction if you try hard enough, even an iPhone. And the several hundred thousand people who buy iPhones every day don't seem to be concerned (with good reason) about accidentally putting someone else's SIM card in their phones.
On the other hand, I see its taken Google almost three years to finally do something to help rid its Marketplace of malware.
So: One iPhone user gets some weird messages after a store employee disregarded procedure, while five million Android users get infected with Counterclank.
Same thing, right?
Not quite a showstopper, now is it. It certainly won't make anyone trade in their Apple device.
The competition's problems run far deeper than a bug or two.
They also ignore overall market growth. They play to the silly notion for someone to win others must lose.
Android. Mitigated somewhat by going in Apple's direction. Do note that the only really successful OEM has chosen to approach a more vertical business model.
Unfortunately, Android on tablets, however, is proving to be a failure.
Which makes one wonder why didn't Nokia go after Palm's WebOS? That one had some real potential.
