The only realm that Apple dominates is smartphones. They're great. I enjoy my iPhone. It also happens that iPhone sales are enough to be the biggest publicly-traded company in the world.
Apple doesn't focus on market share and it never has. Instead they focus on profit. Take (for example), the personal computer market. According to wikipedia, Mac OS X has around a 7% market share[1] yet Apple's larger competitors like HP and Dell are barely making any money while Apple is still making huge profits. (Not as much as on their iOS businesses of course.)
Apple figured out how to make high profit margin on a niche business. That's great, but they aren't exactly dominating the laptop or desktop market, not even close.
As of last quarter, only 48% of Apple’s revenue comes from iPhones. For Apple, the Mac and iPad markets are both tiny - at around 10% of their revenue - that revenue by itself would put it in the top 100 companies in the F500.
None of the tech giants are well diversified - with Google being the least diversified. Facebook just buys up competitors.
Amazon has retail and AWS. Microsoft has software and Cloud.
You're obviously going by the number of units sold, not the profit share. And you're not technically wrong. But isn't that a little bit like measuring the number of swings a baseball player takes instead of the number of times he gets a hit?
In the PC market Apple is absolutely destroying all comers: 45% of the profit share in 2012. HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and Asus combine for the remaining 55%. (I couldn't find numbers for 2013) http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/04/18/apples-ma...
It's true - the iPhone and iPod now makes up the bulk of Apple's revenue. That being said, sales of their laptops are still growing by leaps and bounds (well, until recently anyway). There is still a large market out there for high-end laptops.
Did I ever say they were leading in unit sales? Please don’t twist my words.
Apple of all companies has never been about mass volume, but instead higher revenue and profit per unit. It’s the same with iPhone compared to Android.
I’d much rather own a company with 1000 units sold at 10mil revenue over 100,000 units with the same revenue.
For desktops, Apple's sales barely register.
Servers? Nope.
Laptops? Sure. But Chromebooks have outsold them.
The only realm that Apple dominates is smartphones. They're great. I enjoy my iPhone. It also happens that iPhone sales are enough to be the biggest publicly-traded company in the world.
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