it doesn't matter if the Nexus 7 and then the other Android tablets steal marketshare from Apple if Apple continues to make money hand over fist.
You need to think about this a little bit. What happened shortly after Microsoft took over the computer market? It became harder and harder to find programs that run on Apple, finally arriving at the point where we are at now where over 99% percent of computer programs do not run on Macs. The reason being, that there was more money in PCs, due to a larger audience. Devs go where the money is at. If Google totally dominates the market, most apps will start being only on Android, which will be the end of iOS.
I dont know why I try and use rational thought in a forum. What is it they say about arguing with a fool? They'll bring you down to their level and beat you on experience? Of course they will lose market share when they were so early on the modern smartphone and tablet fronts. Its like saying Ford has lost market share since the early 1900s. Recently, smartphone share has remained relatively stable. As far as tablets, even doubling share doesn't say a lot about units.
This is more super iFan arrogance. "There must have never been a smartphone before I picked up an iPhone". Hate to break it to you, but Apple didn't create the smartphone market. I was using Blackberry and Windows Mobile smartphones years and years before Apple ever showed up to the scene.
They may have just gained a tiny bump in marketshare. However, here's a chart to show you how Apple is hemorrhaging tablet marketshare.
They're being lowly usurped. Here's a chart showing you how googles takeover of mobile played out.
Hmm, looks pretty similar.
Android as a singularity cannot dominate the market no matter what against Apple. Think about it you have 25 different vendors and manufacturers all using android and by this is the only reason why they been able to dominate the market by price options. Apple is ONE company against one OS and a dozen pro-android manufacturers.
This is the same thing that happened in the early computer market. Apple dominated market until Windows came along with numerous manufacturers, and now Apple has like 7% of the computer market, and most programs don't run on Mac. The reason this happened is not because of all the opposing manufacturers. People still liked Apple products. The real reason Apple loses is that they refuse to lower the sickeningly high profit margin they make to be somewhat competitive and they refuse to open up their ecostem at all. If they did they would compete just fine. Their entire business model is based off convincing people that they should buy their product because it's hip, it costs more and therefore, it must be better. If having more models at different price points made a platform successful, than Blackberry would be dominating. Your argument there is tired out and not based on facts.
If you wanna say OS vs OS then its iOS 5 vs Android 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, 4.0 & 4.1. Each of Android's fragmented OS has features of their own.
Pff, that's just utterly ridiculous. More like vs, iOS, iOS2, iOS3, iOS4, iOS5 and the numerous incremental updates in between. iOS5 didn't just poof into existence and it's not what they used to gain their marketshare. You could argue that no device with anything before iOS4 are still being sold. Well, no devices with anything before Gingerbread are still being sold either.
I read these types of post on various forums and am always wondering what exactly do you want iOS to look like or evolve too? There is one school of thought that if you build something that works, don't break it just to change. Microsoft Windows has looked the same for the better part of a decade or more. The automobile has had 4 wheels, 2 or 4 seats, a front windshield, engine hooked to a transmission in the same general configuration for 100 years. Sure they slap some new shape body and color on them the basica underlying "OS/engine" is the same.
If they don't change, they'll fail like Blackberry. They built something that worked and then tried to ride on that success. As their competitors started having more features, everyone jumped ship.
Does anyone think this could play out like the console wars?
Apple = Xbox360 - big lead in home nation, less in the world. Spending more money to keep it that way but are creating most of their own problems. Sometimes lack a unifying voice. Both a plagued by greed issues (Xbox Gold to use internet functions - higher hosting fees from Appstore)
Google = Sony - an arguably superior device (smaller screen but better resolution and CPU performance). Going for global domination but is having a problem overcoming some obstacles. many issues are due to poor decisions.
Amazon = Nintendo - going for price and ergonomics over hardware power. Both have moments of insane domination followed quickly by moments of high level niche status. Both are creating a market more than tapping into one.
More like apple is Sony. They fail to maintain dominance because their console is way more expensive. Google is the Xbox 360. They haven't been in the game as long, but they offer consoles at different price ranges, and their cheaper devices game just as well as the expensive PS3. They are quickly dominating the market.
Seriously, the massive amount of denial, arrogance and ignorance being thrown around by many Apple apologists in this thread is staggering and does nothing to dispel the notion that Apple fans use their products either because they fail to understand technology at all, or just think that every other product is crap because they payed Apple a bigger product margin and assume that more expensive equals a better product.
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