What's eating Apple?

[vision63]

Marc Anthony wrote:
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No one ever mentions the attractiveness and quality of it's competitors products and how Apple isn't doing much to counter it. Carriage fees have been a large segment of their profits if I'm not mistaken, so nobody has paid enough attention to the rapid reduction of their marketshare and their failure to counter the avalanche of competitor product in the marketplace.

I agree with this point; the competition has gotten a lot better lately, and I think it may prove an error to not have gotten litigious at the outset with Android. They took Samsung to court over copycat devices, but the copycat OS is now more prevalent in the category Apple basically invented. At 60% less than the of the cost, those devices are looking more and more appealing.
I've said it before, it was the AT&T exclusive that hurt them. The majority of early Android users wanted iPhones but their carrier didn't offer it. By the time Verizon and Sprint got in the iPhone game, Android was full on. I don't feel like Android copied anything. They make phones with apps, Apple makes phones with Apps. Palm made phones with Apps. That's who got copied from.