How Does Apple Do It ???

[GameBoy27]

It's debatable if the smart watch (any brand) market will take off or not. Personally, it's a bit premature if you need to tether it to a phone in order to use most of the features.

But I'm betting NFC payments will take off as a result of Apple Pay. While it's only available on the iOS platform, there are millions of iPhone 5 owners who have access to this.
Other NFC payment systems never really gained traction because they didn't do the legwork in securing agreements with the 3 major credit companies and retailers in the U.S.

All of which will have to purchase the Apple Watch in order to use Apple Pay as neither
the 5, 5s or 5c supports NFC.

 

[oldjones]

Likely to be underwhelming. IPhone continues to lose market share to android

As Apple computers did to IBM, when Big Blue finally joined the guys who'd been in the personal computer biz for years. Like Apple, whose death was then widely predicted.

But it was IBM that sold what was left of their PC biz for parts, and Apple continues to introduce game-changing products.

 

[IM469]

As Apple computers did to IBM, when Big Blue finally joined the guys who'd been in the personal computer biz for years. Like Apple, whose death was then widely predicted.

But it was IBM that sold what was left of their PC biz for parts, and Apple continues to introduce game-changing products.

Well that's one way to look at it. Apple had the lion's share of the home PC market but - as usual - Job's would not licence the technology in an all Apple or nothing bid for the market.

IBM clobbered them and only got out of the market when other manufactures with the same operating system (similar to Android O/S on phones today) proved they could run with the ball much more efficiently. Net result - IBM is gone from the PC market but ~ 90% of computers run on Windows brought in by IBM. This why Apple almost went bankrupt before the 'game changing products'.

I hope a little worm of reality doesn't eat away all of your illusions of Apple. They still are a great company and just as fallible like the rest of them.

 

[oldjones]

Amazing that it basically took 2 products: the iPhone and iPad to completely turn around this company. They do have the problem for what to do next though.

iTunes? iPods? Maybe not 'company turnarounds' but hardly insignificant. Neither was the Macintosh, nor its GraphicUserInterface, when you think of it.

Could market share possibly be just one measure of success? And perhaps not the most important?