Er, what competing product of similar hardware spec has sold for less? Not to mention the added value of iOS which by all accounts is both simpler to use and more polished than the competition...
Actually Apple has been killing the competition on price, and yet is still making better margins as it is now buying in major volume. For instance, Apple is now the #1 consumer worldwide of flash memory. Think that conveys much bargaining leverage? ;-)
In short, you're mistaken.
Samsung is making better tablets, and their supply chain is rock solid. Android’s open system will eventually wreck iOS which is a repeat of the mistake that French engineer cum marketing idiot made when the Mac was the ‘next big thing’.
I noticed that Oracle is caving on the Cloud. Oracle was right to buck the cloud. That’s a stupid idea too.
The idea that someone would voluntarily hand either Apple or Google all of their contacts so that they can do anything they want with them is tragic and stupid. Only slightly stupider is spending hours a day on a Facebook account handing a 28 year old billionaire thousands of dollars worth of personal information on you and your family and friends for nothing so he can make billions more selling it to marketing departments all over the world.
John Sculley couldn’t save Apple either. Tim Cook won’t either. They have plenty of money, but Apple was a one man show. Apple’s coming out with a TV now. Breaking new ground?
I said Facebook was going down four years ago. I said five years ago that if Jobs ever died, Apple would eventually die with him.
While SaaS will most certainly survive as a business model, the cloud won’t - precisely because it’s a four-year old idea on how to get morons to volunteer their private information AND pay a monthly rental fee for the privelege of being exploited.
Defendant’s attorney: “You claim you had a reasonable expectation of privacy in using Google Apps.”
Plaintiff: “I did.”
Defendant’s attorney: “Yet you read and understood the license agreement and privacy policy.”
Plaintiff: “I did not.”
Defendant’s attorney: “Yet you checked this little box that said you did. . . . “
What the left admired about Jobs was the utter size of his balls in doing the things he did with such impunity.
Have you heard about, read about anywhere, or seen any sort of profile on any of the designers or engineers working at Apple? No Nathan Myrvhold analogs, no more Wozniaks after he left. It was all about Jobs.