You don't see why Betamax lost to VHS? Look at the business model. Sony sold the players at a high price and kept the the player technology to themselved. Beta movies in that format sold for a much higher price than VHS as well. The VHS format licenced its technology so that the players were cheaper as well as the videos were cheaper. Sony Betamax - quality. VHS - quantity.
You clearly need to research the past more. And study business concepts.
I don't understand what you are saying? That's my fault Yahoo bought a services then shuttered it? Or that a service that was going on for years suddenly shutters?
I still have my data... Why the nasty comment?
What a hate filled post you wrote. Seek some counseling or something.
There is nothing fanatical about understanding statics that show one company has 21% of the revenue, while several other companies have to divide 28%...
In regards to user-base, its a significant difference if the product is paid for or given away. That's lost revenue. It effects the sharholders.
Also, my statement "Apple still wins" refers to one company has 21% of the revenue pie, while the others are dividing 28% in to smaller pieces.
Revenue is what the game is all about.
Well, you make a very good point. Although, there is a difference from the VHS/Betamax 'war' which is all the smart phone makers are following Apple's design as well as their business strategy. The VHS strategy was 180-degrees from Betamax.
Nor is there a significant difference in the content available to smart phones. Cost and availability of content is what defined the VHS/Betamax war - as well as the Blu-ray/HD war. Hardware and carrier costs are not radically different with smart phones when they have comparable features.
I want to use the cloud to create a centralized storage for all my photos and sentimental data but it seems like even the biggest providers sell or close down. Its happened to me several times over the last 10 years.
Then there is the bright idea of buying a huge HD and putting it on my network. Except the quality of HDs has gone down and I have lost a couple.
The only medium that has been consistent for me is backing up to DVD or CD.
Seriously. One phone on one carrier has 21% of the market while, while a dozen other phones on several different carriers have 28% of the market... Many, they had to give away for free!
I think Apple still wins. And definitely AT&T wins since it sells Apple, Android, and BlackBerry.
"children put a cell phone to their heads, themselves"
Regardless if a child does something, how does that justify what a doctor does?
If we were to apply the logic of what you just said, you are saying its OK for a doctor to put a child's hand in a light-socket because a child is likely to do it themselves. That's nonsense.
I agree with you. Billions of dollars go into R&D in the USA. Would corporations keep spending that money if their product was so successful it became a standard and they lost control of the supply?
Business is about controlling supply while demand is high. Additionally, this would probably hurt efforts of standardization because business would calculate just how much success their products would need to maximize return BEFORE standardization - as well as develop competing technologies to their own product.
Its a puerile concept that everything of value should be socialized by society.
Any given program will expand to fill available memory.