Apple

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Also keep in mind that apple only has one product the drove its market cap so high. Multi versions of a single technology.

Yeah, that's one of my main two reasons for being dubious about the future of Apple:

#1) They have basically one product
#2) The outstanding success of that product is based largely on the fact that it's stylish. A billion people in China want an iPhone because that's the stylish gift all the VIPs have.

If, for whatever reason, some Samsung phone became the new stylish "must have" cool kids phone, Apple would crash and burn. Of course, some stylish names endure for a long time. Everyone knows "Rolex" or "Tiffany" and that's kind of the angle I think Apple pursues: not just stylish, but elite style. Must have if you are going to be seen as a modern stylish person.

Whether Apple is Tiffany or MySpace remains to be seen.



Now that I think about it, Google really dealt Apple a tremendous blow by coming up with Android. If not for that, I think the market today would be Apple vs a lot of nickle-and-dime half baked opposition. HTC-OS. MotorolaOS. SamsungOS. Every manufacturer would probably have to try and develop their own smartphone operating system to compete in the market and Google created an easy, affordable way for them to all enter the market together without the risk and overhead. Google didn't take it the next step to make it cool, though, which I think is the main reason Apple is still doing so well.