[ctdonath2]

One product. Half the market. Nearly all the profits.

[ctdonath2]

This could be fun.

[Ingtar]

his assessment

Key words.

[freedumb2003]

You forgot these:

[Moltke]

Better to buy Apple stock than an iPhone, obviously.

[Mastador1]

It’s a MONOPOLY! Quick someone get Holder and the EU, they must be persecuted, er, prosecuted and made to pay!!

[Star Traveler]

YIKES!!

[factoryrat]

All of that chinese labor is really paying off.

And everyone wonders why the south was so pissed of when slavery was abolished.

Unfortunately for the US, we are fast equipping the the chinese to be our new slave masters, and when they come for US, we will not be able to fight them off.

Enjoy all of the cheap imports while you can, because it won’t last.

[cuban leaf]

One product. Half the market. Nearly all the profits.

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I.e. overpriced. ;-)

[CodeToad]

!!!! USING APPLE PRODUCTS CURES CANCER !!!

[Mad Dawgg]

I have never figured out why anyone would pay premium for something that has a shelf life of 2-3 years max then a new “better” version comes out.

[wardaddy]

Apple is Clapton

No

Really

Apple is Life

Did anyone here fawn over Microsoft or Exxon or Wally when they had great years

The 6s came out......hipster swooned

It’s relatively temporary

The Nips ain’t asleep u know

[Rebel_Ace]

General Motors once had over 50% of the domestic auto market. During this "golden age" if anyone had suggested that GM would go bankrupt, becoming a ward of the State, you would have been laughed out of the room.

But guess what? GM "failed". All institutions run by people are eventually subject to people's failings, weaknesses and whimsy. Just as 50 years ago there was no Apple Computers, 50 years hence there might not be again.

That being said, it is pretty clear that Apple is on top of its game in business right now. It is also historically accurate to say that it is hard to stay at the top over the long haul. If part of Apple iPhone's appeal is exclusivity, then there is a natural limit on how many can be sold before they are perceived as "common". It is like that time when the "new kid on the block" suddenly becomes "just another kid on the block".

I don't happen to own an iPhone, but my wife has both an iPad as well as a Surface, and uses them both as an educator. Here are her exact words comparing the two: "The Surface is what the iPad wants to be when it grows up."

Kids at her school break down like this: Young ones that want to "point and shoot" simple educational apps grab the iPads at the school. Older kids that actually want to do something for homework grab the Surfaces, because they can jam a USB drive in it, a simple, and some would say fundamental shortcoming on an iPad.

Will Apple fall? Sure, Rome did. What will do it? I don't know, probably no single thing, but a death of a hundred cuts, so to speak. This year? Naw. Next? Probably not. 50 Years? Pretty much 100% certain.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Obviously a failed business model!!!

[TalonDJ]

I don’t like to reward a company that can’t figure out how to make a profit at what they do. In other words, whose product does not offer more value to me than the price I pay for it. If people only buy your stuff if you sell it at or near a loss? It is garbage.

[bigbob]

That’s why I own Android devices and Apple stock.

[SamAdams76]

But...but...Apple is OVERPRICED. But...but...but Android sells WAY more devices than Apple so they must be better. Besides, Apple is going to get their comeuppance. Just you wait and see. Steve Jobs is gone forever. And the Great Android is going to come out of the sky and establish dominance over the entire smartphone and tablet industries.

[Wuli]

Now if the Obama administration was TRULY going after a problem of “monopoly” power in any area of telecommunications, instead of the phony “net neutrality” charge against the telecoms, then you’d think they’d have something to say about Apple in cell phones and Google in Internet browsing and Internet advertising. But, you see, net neutrality is REALLY about putting restraints on the telecoms, to the benefits of Google, Netflix and in Music and Video streaming now Apple as well.

[SamAdams76]

Some might say that Apple devices are overpriced but I would happily pay double what they are charging now, even if the others cut their prices in half at the same time.

So if Apple was to charge $799 for an 64GB Iphone 6 with a two-year contract, I would still buy it, even if Samsung Galaxy went to $99 with a two-year contract.

It is because of this that Apple will make even more money, because they have room to raise their prices even more.

[wardaddy]

Btw

This data is very cherry picked and is just a snapshot time period of Apples iPhone 6 Release timeframe

It’s deceptive

But have fun

2014 market share was decidedly android

2015 is mighty early

[Dalberg-Acton]

Darned good marketing for the second best phone (after Samsung).