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Originally Posted by servoisgod
"It's all well and good to be number two, but when you're number two and number one has 85% of a market, you're a failure. "
Umm, Apple OS=~10% and MS OS=~90% market share?
Would you consider Apple a failure? Just saying.
Thanks,
Aaron
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I think it's pretty obvious there's a difference in philosophy between what Sandisk did and what Apple does.
Sandisk set out to unseat the iPod and tried a hundred different ways to do it including promoting its own products pretty much as "not iPods." They had every intention of taking over the market and took up an aggressive strategy to do so, they just failed and admitted as much.
I don't see Apple employing similar techniques in going up against Microsoft. It's never been about market share with them. Would they like it? Sure. Is it the be all and end all if they don't get it? Nope. Secondly, a better analog would be Apple versus another computer company, as Microsoft is not a hardware company, and Apple isn't really a software company (their software is directly for the purposes of powering their hardware).