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Originally Posted by servoisgod
It's fine how you want to interpret it. I'm just going by what was posted as a definition of failure.
I myself have an iPhone and enjoying having it. However I personally can't stand Apple products because of the way Apple and the followers look at themselves. As a friend once told me, �Apple users are like democrats: It�s more of a religion than an affiliation, and they will do whatever is needed to justify themselves.�
The same can be said about PC people and how they are.
The best part about the whole thing is that we all have the right to choose what we like to work with.
Oh and "I don't see Apple employing similar techniques in going up against Microsoft." I hate to point another thing out but:
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I get your point. Really, I do. It's just not the same thing.
Apple is a niche product (whether I like that or not, it is true). They live in that niche and they thrive in it. The company is doing well and it's growing and the marketshare, which was 2% in the 90's is significantly better than it was. If Apple truly wanted to "own the market" they'd open their OS to all hardware and then we'd have a fight. You and I both know that.
That being said, Sandisk didn't want to be a niche product; they wanted to overtake the iPod. For them, this represents a failure both in their products and in their strategy. There's nothing wrong with being number two, but when your stated goal is to own the market and you can't crack 15%, that's failure.
Two completely different philosophies. You have a point that by Apple's standards, Sandisk was doing just fine, but we aren't measuring them by Apple's standards, we're measuring them by their own, in which their CEO says they failed.
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