| stof said: I;m reading this in an Apple store in Fukuoka Japan and the store is packed. The iphone just became available in Korea a few months ago and they:re already everywhere. I can:t imagine what will happen when the ipad hits Asia. Apple:s just going to keep on growing. I don]t see an end to growth within the next 10 years. |
Apple is an odd position that could make them amazingly successful over the next decade, or could collapse within a couple of years. Mobile computing today is a market which is very similar to what personal computers were in the early 1990s, and Apple is in the position to take advantage of this market like Microsoft and Dell were at the time. The real advantage Apple has at this point in time is that they have very little competition which is making inroads, but the unfortunate disadvantage is they have almost no lock-in on customers.
What I mean by this is that a large portion of why many companies have not switched away from Microsoft based operating systems is because the applications they use are only available for Windows; and even if you can get them for Linux or Mac they’re expensive to replace. With Apple it seems like most of the Apps on the App-Store are also available for Android based phones and the Blackberry, and the cost per application is very small, which means that if Apple started to see significant declines in competitiveness there isn’t much to prevent their sales from declining.
