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On 2015-05-11, Caver1 <caver1@inthemud.org> wrote:
> On 05/11/2015 05:09 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>> In article <VLqdnSLAMNzskczInZ2dnUVZ5qednZ2d@giganews.com>, Marek
>> Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Apple has a hot product with the iPhone, but it won't last forver.
>>> When iPhone sales start to stall, Apple will drop like a rock.
>>
>> That's what they said about the Apple II, about the Macintosh, and
>> about the iPod.  You Apple haters keep believing that Apple is a
>> one-trick pony and will always be a one-trick pony.

That's because it's a one-trick pony.

Apple is a consumer electronics company.  It's exceedingly good at it, but that's
the only market it exists. It's nowhere in corporates or embedded systems.