Switching any other product category there shows the challenge in such a proposition, e.g.:
"How many people are still making do with something that isn't a Mercedes? Give it a few weeks and they'll stop using their 'also ran' car that someone bought them thinking it's the right one or they bought it because it was cheap."
Just how many weeks do you imagine it will take?
Before anyone starts the predictable chants of "troll!" or "hater!" or whatever else is fashionable here this morning, let me please be clear that my point isn't that "Apple is doomed."
Far from it. Apple is making more money than any other mobile device maker out there, and that's not likely to change any time soon.
My only point here is that Apple doesn't care about market share nearly as much as the readers here do. They don't feel the need to argue endlessly about stats showing how many other products are being sold.
Indeed, I've just been pointing out trends without making moral judgements, and this seems to upset people a lot. The one thing I say about Apple though is that this is post-Steve-Jobs, and such current trends are something to note in the post-Steve-Jobs Apple. Because Steve kept re-inventing, and his answer to declining market share was simply, create a whole new product category... Again and again. Can Tim Cook's Apple create not just one, but several, entirely new product categories?
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Indeed, I've just been pointing out trends without making moral judgements, and this seems to upset people a lot. The one thing I say about Apple though is that this is post-Steve-Jobs, and such current trends are something to note in the post-Steve-Jobs Apple. Because Steve kept re-inventing, and his answer to declining market share was simply, create a whole new product category... Again and again. Can Tim Cook's Apple create not just one, but several, entirely new product categories?