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Originally Posted by smoothcriminal99
This discussions has become pretty toxic but there are a variety of reasons why iPhones have a more significant competitive advantage then blackberry or nokia did in their peaks. We could get into a long debate about this but the biggest difference is until there are universal app stores, whoever has the largest user base creates a cycle of creating more content and therefore attracting more users which attracts more developers to use their platform for development.
This is why Windows will win the days when phones become PCs? This is why Apple is doomed to fall prey to Android, which has 4x more users and growing?
(old data, but the numbers are about the same today).
The latter is actually a decent point. Apple is bound to its hardware. If massively overpriced iPhone sales fall in the next recession, which they will, their 20% current market share will get smaller and smaller, and once that happens, and developers will abandon them and a vicious negative cycle. The app store is actually an enormous danger for Apple and a source of bankruptcy.
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Despite this I think they are absolutely butchering their advantage by focusing on camera quality instead of functionality and increasing the price point for very little utility.
Apple can't add functionality because it ruins the Apple experience and their profit margins (if they add storage, they lose billions in profits, if they add options, they lose simplicity). Blackberry had the same problem. This is how these things play out, hence the the comparison