tom Andersen

Smartphones: The Mobile Industry Is About to Get 'Blown Apart'

I found the graphs very wrong. About 90 % of the iPhone is Open source, the tools to build the apps come free with every Mac, and most importantly the tools actually work. No one comes anywhere near the depth of the development software on the iPhone. Plus giving 60 or 70 points directly to the manufacturer on each sale, is unheard of. Retail is at about 20 - 50%, and with piracy, etc most software is well below 50%. In 10 years there will be iPhones and open source clones of them, plus perhaps something like Android or the Palm.

Apple's next target is their own computers! Hardly anyone needs a PC or Mac. What they want is a dependable device that has no backup / state issues. Want a better one? Buy it and take it home.
The only people who should be running PCs and Macs are developers/CAD/Photoshop junkies. Consumers want email, homework and facebook, not viruses, backup, headaches, etc. Way too complicated.