https://touchreviews.net/wins-apple-google-war/ iPhone, iPad Games, Apps, Reviews, News Wed, 04 Feb 2015 21:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Jim https://touchreviews.net/wins-apple-google-war/#comment-4249 Tue, 25 May 2010 21:53:40 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=6780#comment-4249 “It is a generally accepted axiom of commercial and economic theory that competition breeds innovation.”
It is precisely not. The axiom known since the 19th century is this: competition reduces monopoly profits for innovators and encourages imitation.

]]> By: Kenneth Berger https://touchreviews.net/wins-apple-google-war/#comment-4171 Sun, 23 May 2010 22:53:46 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=6780#comment-4171 The war is good as long as they play fair (not like Microsoft) and no one gets to far ahead and kills the competition.

Monopoly power is bad for innovation. Simply look at MS when they had no competition. Apple's renewed success is what made MSFt get off their back ends and make a great operating system (win7), Adobe needs some competition in their space so we stop paying so much for buggy creative software.

I love my iPhone, it has changed my life more that any other technology in a shorter period of time. I don't like Android as much from my limited and now out of date experience with the Droid. But I love the fact that Apple will have to keep up dramatic upgrades in capabilities of the iPhone OS making my iPhone better as the direct result of Google's Android feature war.

]]> By: Lrd https://touchreviews.net/wins-apple-google-war/#comment-4170 Sun, 23 May 2010 22:08:43 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=6780#comment-4170 I put my money on Apple. Why?

Here's my list:

1) iTunes ( $1.2 billion in revenues )
2) iPod touch ( 35 to 40 million sold )
3) ipad ( 200k per day being sold; no viable competitor within site)
4)iPhone ( 60 million sold )
5) iMac ( tens of millions sold )
6) iBook ( tens of millions sold )
7) iPods ( 250 million sold & counting)
8) 270+ Apple retail stores & more coming
100 million visitors in 2009!

Just think about how all these feed on themselves and you'll see why Apple's hard to beat.

Only in the tech world does Google get equal billing in the hope that one company doesn't dominate the markets; but in reality; one company is clearing out in front and dominating the market.

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