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Apple's Shifting Differentiation

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292 points kaboro | 2 comments | 11 Nov 20 13:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.543s | source
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x87678r ◴[11 Nov 20 14:10 UTC] No.25058513[source]▶
Its difficult to think different if you're the world's largest company and dominate the phone market. In laptops it looks like they are differentiating themselves very well.
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cpuguy83 ◴[11 Nov 20 14:17 UTC] No.25058562[source]▶
Apple has a small piece of the smartphone pie. That said, their CPU's are consistently in a class of their own.
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1. robin_reala ◴[11 Nov 20 14:23 UTC] No.25058604[source]▶
Small is relative. Some estimates claim 1b active iPhones: https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2020/10/26/a-billion-iphon...
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2. fouc ◴[11 Nov 20 15:41 UTC] No.25059238[source]▶
A lot of people are still using an iPhone 5S or an iPhone 6. From iPhone 6 to now, that's actually close to 1.7b iPhone sales. 1b active iPhones sounds very reasonable after accounting for breakage and the unused spares forgotten in a drawer.

Apparently there's approx a total of 3.5 billion smartphone users today. https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-phones-are-in-the-w...

iPhones could be 30% of the market.