Thread: Who is going to make a geek phone?
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2011-06-22 , 20:46
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#65
Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
I don't believe that degree of control is necessary at all-- because I'm talking about different demographics. Apple gets the 15-20-% of people willing to surrender control; a competitor could easily grab the 15-20% unwilling to do so. And let Microsoft/Android have the rest.

Solved.
What I was getting at is that Apple succeeds (financially) because they make a lot of additional money on the additional content and apps that they control. Sorry I didn't make that clearer.
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