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Garcian Smith said:
 

And on top of that, the iPhone hasn't even captured the entire market as the iPod did. As I mentioned before, iPhone sales are only 20% or so of total smartphone sales on a month-by-month basis, mostly due to high cost and the even MORE expensive monthly fees.


I had to chuckle when I read this.  I hope I never work for you... I can't imagine the level of expectation you would place on me.

Apple is a relative newcomer to the smart-phone market.  They've basically released one iteration of one phone and are just now approaching 1 year in the market.  Already you expect them to have a lion share of that market.  The iPod didn't get 80% of the mp3-player market its first year or even its second.  It took several years.

I know some people seem to hate Apple (heck, I hate Apple in some ways), but that doesn't mean I'm going to pretend that jumping into a market and grabbing 20% in the first year isn't impressive.