Apple Cannot Handle More Than 5-Percent

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Only a matter of time until Apple is just another company trying to compete with the big fishes. I have to say, I am glad that the iPhone is not on top..
 
Something tells me this time though, Google won't have to bail out Apple so that they still have someone to compete against like Microsoft had to.
 
Apple's downfall will be Apple itself!!

They try to cater too much to their niche cult market while letting the rest of the market go to something else.

Ultimately brand loyalty (Apple Propaganda) can only go so far with their members before their members realize there are far better alternatives to Apple products that are wayyy cheaper and less restrictive.
 
But why do we need iTunes? I mean, if someone ported libimobiledevice from linux to other OS's, we could use that. It already supports most of the features I used to use with iTunes, and now I don't need windows at all.
 
I feel that the main issues that keep me off the Apple platform is neither the much discussed 'Apple tax' nor the distinct style of both the hardware and Apple community but rather their inability to keep up with the times.

I don't mind paying a premium for either design or functionality but the days when Apple offered innovative and cutting edge hardware along with their prices are long gone. Add that their refusal to adopt widely accepted standards while trying to push things like Firewire, mini-Displayport and the iPhone's propriety connector on us is doing them no favors.

I don't vehemently dislike either Apple's style in design or pricing but it's way overdue to bring some substance along for the ride.

Cue my recent notebook dilemma, the new 13" MacBook Pro is a decent enough machine for the price but the inability to connect to our projectors without buying, and lugging around, a propriety dongle turned out too much of a chore. Add to that I can't connect it to my home TV without a second dongle, or to my computer without a third and things get way beyond annoying.

TL;DR: Apple is trying to be a premium brand with premium pricing while offering less than even mainstream consumers demand from their machines and gadgets. This prevents them from ever achieving mass-market appeal.
 
A really nice article. I agree with, and predicted a lot of what you described when the Droid first came out, and Android was taking off. I have to say I disagree with one point though...

"Germany’s Madvertise advertising company recently said that it expects the closed apps such as App Store apps will lose their popularity within 5 to 10 years as developers do not really like to develop applications for multiple platforms and may prefer open technologies such as HTML5. I would have to agree, especially since Apple has lost its legal cover to protect its iPhone from jailbreaking."

I personally completely disagree with this. Web programming is a huge pain, and HTML 5 cannot come close to doing what a real programming language can do on a platform. Developers may not like closed App stores like Apples, but Google's App store isn't a problem. An App store gives developers a channel for people to stumble upon and use their apps that they wouldn't normally find otherwise.

Maybe it is just my severe dislike of web development, but I would rather develop a cross platform game than develop a web game.
 
This is actually what I've been saying for a long time. Apple's entire business model is based around being the "little guy." They wouldn't be able to function otherwise, unless they were to fundamentally change almost every aspect of how they work. This is why there will never be an Apple revolution. If Microsoft ever falls from its throne, Apple will not be the one to take its place.
 
This is actually what I've been saying for a long time. Apple's entire business model is based around being the "little guy." They wouldn't be able to function otherwise, unless they were to fundamentally change almost every aspect of how they work. This is why there will never be an Apple revolution. If Microsoft ever falls from its throne, Apple will not be the one to take its place.
 
There is no way to trim around the fact that they are not the most competetively priced always making them vulnerable. Secondly beating their suppliers and even third party developers with bad deals may even make a developer -eager- to jump ship when other oppurtunities arise. The general ebay seller revolt comes to mind.
 
Apple should create a new sister company to cater the masses like what Asus did with Asrock. This way they will retain the brand prestige and at the same time create more market on the new brand.
 
Apple's product **looks** great but when you start digging around you realise that the software is incomplete yet marketed as a functionality. *stares at Address Book server/Push notifications + lack of tape drive/backup support*.
 
It's a catch 22, the simplicity and relative stability of apple OS is because it's closed and apple has a lot of control, but it loses, that if it opened up it's platform more. I'll say this Windows 7 is amazing. And I just checked out Samsung Galaxy S, and it looks every bit is powerful if not more so than that iphone 4g, at the end of the day you can't beat numbers, because droid is open, someone is bound to come up with a product that can compete or beat out the iphone. I wonder how Apple will respond will they make the same mistake.
 
Apple is too stuck-up to realize that a one-man army never prevails in the long run. You need support from the rest of the industry.
 
The main thing that p**ses me off about Apple is that they basically use the same components as a windows PC, but refuse to sell the OS separately or allow it to be installed on generic PC hardware. If they did this i'm sure more people would give their OS a shot.
 
One of the ways Apple is REALLY shooting itself in the foot currently is by ignoring it's former core market: creative professionals. It's current software offerings are either decaying or becoming dumbed-down and consumer-oriented, while its hardware is losing it's performance edge. Not to mention, after leaving their formerly great 30" display un-updated for nigh on 6 years, they finally discontinued it–and promptly replaced it with a glossy-only, LED-backlit 27" display with a 16:9 aspect ratio instead of 16:10, and losing vertical resolution as a result. And it only has mini-displayport. They've ceded the pro market to other companies such as LaCie, NEC, even LG and HP.
 
I completely agree with you exodite. I currently work at best buy and I have the ability to play on both platforms all day. The Macbook Pro's are decent but their priced double what they should be. Considering that Apple no longer uses their own cpu or other hardware components and rely on the same companies that supply pc computers with hardware, I cant seem to see how this justifies their price. I can buy an i7 4gb 500gb toshiba for under a $1000 and barely get half the performance from their macbook which is priced at $1,199....
 
Speaking of QuarkXpress.. ugh, I hated that program. When I worked in Manhattan doing digital retouching, I was taught on a Mac using PS 4.0. It sounds just like my department was, for you. TrueType fonts and PC's... what a joke. That is another reason for Mac's. Their fonts. But, for photoshop, there was ALWAYS the wars about which was faster. I remember when they got their first G4 500Mhz Mac... Oooooooh. LOL.
 
[citation][nom]caustin582[/nom]Side note: Tom's Hardware really should add an option for deleting one's own comments. My computer here at work choked all of a sudden and somehow posted my comment twice. Go ahead and rate down/hide the copy. Meh.[/citation]

I completely agree, if we were sooo in love with apple as the author stated then why is its market share less than 10%.
 
I can't see much more than 5% of people willing to pay big "premiums" to use Apple's products. IMO Android is a perfect example of a future where "open source" plays a big part of things.
 
What inane analysis. So you don't think Apple "will rule the world." Keep in mind the goal of all companies is to MAKE MONEY. Is it any wonder that an operating system that is given away for free is "outselling" iOS? Google on the other hand has not found a way to make money from anything other than browser based search. They may well become a sort of standard in smartphones in the same way mediocre Microsoft software has in the PC arena but will probably not enjoy the same fortunes as Microsoft who actually sells their software. Since browser based internet use will probably decline markedly over time, eventually I wouldn't be surprised to see Google fade away unless they change their business model to derive revenue from selling something other than advertising. Apple seems to find ways to MAKE MONEY selling high quality innovative products and probably always will. Their products are easy, nice and enjoyable to use for regular people. Their support is constantly rated as the best in the industry. As a company Apple will not only survive but thrive because they find ways to MAKE MONEY giving people what they want even if they don't "rule the world."
 
Apple don't care about the masses, they are about 'efficiency' not market share. i.e. they care more about how much money they can fleece from each customer, than how many customers they have... to this end, they only really target the 'rich idiot' demographic.

what ever, good for them, I'm just glad that such an evil company doesn't seem to want to command such a big market share.
 
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