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Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021

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Re: Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021

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Post by InTheArena »

gbrown wrote: post #2

I really wish there was more competition in this space. Here's hoping someone like Canonical tries again now that the open-hardware world is starting to expand.

there will be - but it will be in the form of a Chinese mandate to provide phones that do not use Western Operating systems or without western data privacy protections.

Ideas like what Canonical and Firefox tried to do were great, but didn't have enough in it for the powers that be to be successful.

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Post by archildress »

gbrown wrote: post #2

I really wish there was more competition in this space. Here's hoping someone like Canonical tries again now that the open-hardware world is starting to expand.

There's plenty of competition - note that despite capturing 75% of profits, Apple accounted for only 13% of units shipped.

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Post by conductr »

gbrown wrote: post #2

I really wish there was more competition in this space. Here's hoping someone like Canonical tries again now that the open-hardware world is starting to expand.

Looks to me there’s plenty of competition. Apple just consistently wins. Consumers are willing to pay more per device and it flows through to profit. The others are competing on price and their margins reflect it.

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

InTheArena wrote: post #5
gbrown wrote: post #2

I really wish there was more competition in this space. Here's hoping someone like Canonical tries again now that the open-hardware world is starting to expand.

there will be - but it will be in the form of a Chinese mandate to provide phones that do not use Western Operating systems or without western data privacy protections. Ideas like what Canonical and Firefox tried to do were great, but didn't have enough in it for the powers that be to be successful.

There was also, to be frank, incompetence. Mozilla is paying their director, what, $2.4 million just this year while their browser becomes more irrelevant each year in the usage metrics? And Canonical thought releasing generally-crappy hardware and refusing to support Wayland and requiring a centralized App Store of their own (later the Snap Store) was a winning strategy for getting Linux enthusiasts.
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