Apple to take over the living room?

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famousringo said:
When people talk about iPhone, they usually talk about the marketshare of all smartphones rather than the marketshare of all cellphones. They know that it's an upmarket device, so they compare it against other upmarket devices with similar feature sets rather than downmarket cellphones with far fewer features and razor-thin profit margins. Comparing those two markets is kind of like comparing console and PC hardware sales.

Last I heard, iTunes had about 70% marketshare for legal music downloads, but I think they face a lot more competition when it comes to video downloads.

Apple's bid to take over the living room has been more or less a flop so far. The iPod and the Macintosh probably see more use in living rooms than the Apple TV does. This might turn around as Apple builds up iTunes' strength in video downloads and if they can release a more interesting Apple TV 2, possibly with an IR pointer interface.

 

In that case, it's a lot worse than comparing PC and console hardware sales.

After all, 2007 console sales were 33.33M (no kidding) in 2007, whereas PC sales were at 266M.

PC hardware, is in fact only 8 times bigger than console hardware, while I believe that's not the case for smart-phones.

Fun fact: Video game hardware in 2007 = 28% of PC hardware sold in 2007!