If Apple falls far and fast (I am not so sure it will) we may trace the turning point to Apple's legal victory in the USA over Samsung's intellectual property rights violation, which told the world that a USA jury believed there was no difference between an iPhone and the Samsung version.
Steve Jobs was dead by the time the court ruled, and he may have been smart enough to do the right thing, and that would be once the case was settled, open source the patents so competition could reign. But too late now, in the most important markets, the growing ones, Apple is in freefall.
Good luck fixing that. It's not too late to do the right thing, but the right thing is not even on the radar. Too bad for Apple. Fantastic for anyone who wants to improve on Apple. Why? Because the drop in sales means an expansion in excess production capacity, which in turns capacity awaiting new designs at lower prices. Your new designs. Get going!
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Steve Jobs was dead by the time the court ruled, and he may have been smart enough to do the right thing, and that would be once the case was settled, open source the patents so competition could reign. But too late now, in the most important markets, the growing ones, Apple is in freefall.
But StatCounter gs.statcounter.com, which measures traffic collected across a network of 3 million websites, calculates that Apple's share of mobile devices in Singapore - iPad and iPhone - declined sharply last year. From a peak of 72 percent in January 2012, its share fell to 50 percent this month, while Android devices now account for 43 percent of the market, up from 20 percent in the same month last year.
In Hong Kong, devices running Apple's iOS now account for about 30 percent of the total, down from about 45 percent a year ago. Android accounts for nearly two-thirds.
Good luck fixing that. It's not too late to do the right thing, but the right thing is not even on the radar. Too bad for Apple. Fantastic for anyone who wants to improve on Apple. Why? Because the drop in sales means an expansion in excess production capacity, which in turns capacity awaiting new designs at lower prices. Your new designs. Get going!
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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