It's too bad that Samsung was able to ride Apple's coattails of success with the Galaxy S series. They were able to jump right into the smartphone competition and block most of Apple's growth of market share. Actually, Steve is the source of all Apple's grief. He welcomed Eric Schmidt with open arms to play around at Apple and practically gave Eric the keys to the kingdom which birthed the rapid rise of Android. Eric helped himself to the cash, silverware and Steve Jobs pants and walked out with a nice helping of the family jewels of IP. That's what Steve got for being so trusting or maybe he was too preoccupied with other things to realize how treacherous humans are when it comes to stealing other people's property.

Now Apple has to put up with all this BS from the media about how the iPhone is falling way behind the smartphone curve and how Samsung and Android OS are eating Apple's lunch. Those boasting bloggers and analysts think they know so much by believing success is guaranteed from having major market share and they really don't know diddly. Having major market share can be margin-empty and fleeting if one were to use Nokia and RIM as very recent examples. Basing success on only owning major market share is a fool's game when there are so many other important factors in creating a financially successful long-term sales strategy. Just because Apple has one quarter of lowered iPhone sales it's so easy for the media to think that Apple and the iPhone are done for in the smartphone industry even though Apple has the back-burners on high.

So far, the so-called experts have been wrong about the iPod, the iPhone, the MacBook Air and now the iPad about being successful products. Those experts opinions are not worth a damn thing and should be completely ignored. Only the consumer matters to Apple and Apple seems to be satisfying them in droves. Let's see how long the rest of the tech industry is able to stay running strong in the long haul as Apple will despite the near-constant negativity of all those analysts and bloggers.

Its not like the iPhone market share is all that unhealthy, but if you look at their profit share, they are making almost all the money.

Originally Posted by iphonerulez

[SIZE=2]It's too bad that Samsung was able to ride Apple's coattails of success with the Galaxy S series. They were able to jump right into the smartphone competition and block most of Apple's growth of market share. Actually, Steve is the source of all Apple's grief. He welcomed Eric Schmidt with open arms to play around at Apple and practically gave Eric the keys to the kingdom which birthed the rapid rise of Android. Eric helped himself to the cash, silverware and Steve Jobs pants and walked out with a nice helping of the family jewels of IP. That's what Steve got for being so trusting or maybe he was too preoccupied with other things to realize how treacherous humans are when it comes to stealing other people's property.
Now Apple has to put up with all this BS from the media about how the iPhone is falling way behind the smartphone curve and how Samsung and Android OS are eating Apple's lunch. Those boasting bloggers and analysts think they know so much by believing success is guaranteed from having major market share and they really don't know diddly. Having major market share can be margin-empty and fleeting if one were to use Nokia and RIM as very recent examples. Basing success on only owning major market share is a fool's game when there are so many other important factors in creating a financially successful long-term sales strategy. Just because Apple has one quarter of lowered iPhone sales it's so easy for the media to think that Apple and the iPhone are done for in the smartphone industry even though Apple has the back-burners on high.
So far, the so-called experts have been wrong about the iPod, the iPhone, the MacBook Air and now the iPad about being successful products. Those experts opinions are not worth a damn thing and should be completely ignored. Only the consumer matters to Apple and Apple seems to be satisfying them in droves. Let's see how long the rest of the tech industry is able to stay running strong in the long haul as Apple will despite the near-constant negativity of all those analysts and bloggers.[/SIZE]

Karma's a bi***, as the likes of Adobe, Microsoft, Dell et al are slowly discovering in the long run. Let the stealers keep on stealing, their time will come to reap what they sow.

So long as Apple keeps to the Jobsian era principles of creating insanely great products and services, their long-term prosperity is assured,

As a matter of fact, the spate of treacherous purloining of market share may turn out to be Apple's redeeming grace - without Samsung and Google's inside knowledge of Apple's plans for world domination of the mobile computing industry due to their position as privileged insiders, Apple may well be resting on their laurels by now, sitting back and surveying the spectacle of total devastation that their market disruption has triggered since 2007.

As it stands, their feeling of righteous indignation at being royally swindled, coupled with the competitive pressure from Google, Android and Samsung, will "keep Apple honest" and firing on all cylinders for years to come. The Community Meeting that Steve Jobs convened at Cupertino in the wake of Google's Android announcement a few years ago will come to be seen as a spiritual rallying point, a critical point in Apple's history that will motivate them for the foreseeable future and serve as an anchor in the turbulent sea of corporate endeavour.

Iphonerulez...perfectly worded; couldn't agree with you more! The customer is Apple's focus...always has been and I hope it always will be.

The new commenting system really suck.

Originally Posted by ZinkDifferent

The new commenting system really suck.

I am not the only one that agrees with you... This place is headed toward the cliff...