rocketpig said:
Or, more likely, an important point for fanboys to argue about on internet forums. Businesses offer services and sell products to make money. Apple is much better at making money than Google. It's nice for Google to have a huge slice of the market but it hasn't turned into enormous profits for them compared to Apple's closed strategy and smaller marketshare. If Windows 8 Phone becomes a player in the high-end phone market (and here's hoping they do), Google could see their high profit phones marginalized as a third option becomes viable for high-usage (and therefore, high-profit) customers. It's very possible that by offering an open and slow to update operating system that depends largely on carrier support to code/update the OS, Google has positioned themselves to dominate the lowest profit phones. That's not a good thing. I'm not saying that's what is going to happen but it's a real possibility. Google's OS strategy has its flaws, just as Microsoft and Apple have their own flaws. |
Well Microsoft is moving to a new era for the company as its products are going to be focused more and more on tablets and mobile. The issue for Microsoft is that it has basically been given a free lunch with the pc market bc the monopoly that it has long enjoyed isnt too difficult to maintain, but now it is moving to a more competive market as the pc business loses to mobile and tablets. I'm not giving you a doom and gloom speech at all, but regardless it should be getting less profit margin than it has simply bc it has to work harder.
And the analyst expectations are in line with this, anyway. Would you like me to post some revenue expectations, eps estimates, etc? I can give you analyst expectations of why the boys in Redmond just won't be as hot as they have been.
