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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: 0.001s | 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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izacus ◴[11 Nov 20 15:25 UTC] No.25059094[source]▶
Half of USA market is far from "small piece".
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1. timbit42 ◴[11 Nov 20 15:51 UTC] No.25059326[source]▶
The US is only 4.2% of the global population.
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2. izacus ◴[11 Nov 20 17:08 UTC] No.25060222[source]▶
And that 4.2% of population created one of the richest corporations in the world. Pretending that Apple doesn't have an important world market share with their mobile products is really a bit facetious.

Even if it reaches a low % of total world population, it does command important amount of profits and dictates trends.