Comments on: iPad: How 2011 will be like 2005

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By: lrd

lrd — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:24:27 +0000

Apple’s got three other huge advantages:

1) one operating system for all three mobile devices: ipod touch, iphone, iPAD. Just imagine the mess that faces Google going forward with more versions of Android than you can count out there. And the best part is that it’s spending all this money with hardly any returns on investment. Not like Apple making $25 Billion in revenues.

2) iTunes- one shop stopping for all your media.

3) A huge eco system of products.

By: James

James — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:48:18 +0000

I’ve been arguing this for a while. Apple has advanced the game the game of economic warfare by attacking the competitors supply chain. With over 50 billion in cash and nearly 50 million iDevices fly off the shelf per/quarter they have the resources to corner the best prices while denying components and/or reasonable prices to the competition.

While many will argue that Android has reached iPhone volume, clearly it is no where near iOS volume when you take into account the iPod, Touch, iPhone, iPad and AppleTV who all share the same components; processors, flash ram, etc,. Most importantly, even if Android did reach iOS volume, it will never come from a single manufacture, thus no one will be able to compete with Apple on volume and thus pricing.

No matter how you cut it, Android’s openness work against it in this case. If Android can’t compel on price it will have a hard time competing against Apple’s massive eco-system, which not only includes hardware and software but retail and online stores. No one will have that kind of reach or level of service or unity of experience.

The age of the hardware features war is over, consumers won’t pay any attention to GHz, rather they will focus on software, service and most importantly easy-of-use via a complete eco-system. When so many talk about choice, the choice of a complete vertical solution is finally here.

By: steffenjobbs

steffenjobbs — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:01:11 +0000

If the demand for Apple products is there, then it’s just a natural course of events that Apple has a need for supply. The suppliers are happy to get Apple’s cash up-front and it means they don’t have to worry about having leftover inventory. It’s not as if Apple is hogging components just for the hell of making life miserable for other companies. They sell all the products they make and could sell even more if there were more components available. Microsoft made it nearly impossible for any computer company to compete with them for almost 30 years and there didn’t seem to be any complaints.

Consumers are willingly buying Apple products. There’s no coercion going on like Microsoft used in corporations. As far as flash memory is concerned, only Apple puts a lot of memory into their products internally. Most of the tech-geeks want to use external flash and memory cards for all their devices so there shouldn’t be any conflict at all with Android devices. All throughout business history, the larger corporations get the biggest component cost breaks due to the economies of buying in large amounts. So what is the big deal about it now? This is nothing unusual. All the iHater say that Apple is charging too much so they’ll just buy the cheaper products that suit their price range.