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Originally Posted by Malatesta
They will create a sub-market with the iPhone: high priced/high end almost luxury phones (can't wait to hear about the muggings here in NYC!  ) but the idea that a $600 phone will become dominant, that I find hard to believe. |
I don't think anyone is predicting that. Apple's stated aim is 1% of the market by the end of 2008. The highest percentage I've seen predicted was from Steve Ballmer (oddly enough). He said 2 or 3% (but didn't give a time frame). Of course 1, 2 or 3% of a billion device per annum market is a lot of phones, but nothing approaching dominance. Personally I have my doubts that Apple will ever even try for the bulk of the market, at least not if that means producing cheap, low-end (and low-margin) devices.