In the 1980s, Apple presents a breakthrough in the world of computers through the Macintosh. However, in the end, rather than an Apple who enjoys success in the personal computer market, but Microsoft. Apple itself marginalized and almost went bankrupt.
The lapse of several decades later, a similar situation happening again. iPhone opens the way for a modern smartphone, but it is precisely that dominate the Google Android mobile OS with hers which controlled 80 per cent share of the smartphone market.
Whether history will repeat and Apple again marginalized? In an interview quoted by Business Insider, the CEO of Apple Tim Cook argued otherwise.
Apple currently has cash amounting to 160 billion US dollars so far away from the word "bankrupt". In addition, Cook added, there are two causes for the Android is unable to beat Apple like Windows.
The first reason is related to an application on the platform in question. First, the Mac is the main application of loss is only available in Windows. Apple's flagship computer product line was abandoned by its users.
However, according to Cook, the mobile gadgets in competition today, Apple has a collection of applications that setanding with Android, if not better. There are about one million applications for the iPhone, while applications that are written specifically for the iPad tablet reaches the range of 500,000.
Instead, Cook said that there are only 1,000 applications are optimized for Android tablets. "That's one reason, though not the only one. Using Android tablet is a bad experience because its application is enlarged from already existing in smartphones, "he said.
The second deals with the causes of fragmentation in Android platform, which he called similar to "Europe". Europe called Cook a "generic" name used by some Americans to refer to the continent, without knowing that it contained many different countries between one and the other.
"Android is comprised of many things. How the owners of the Kindle (Amazon's tablet) know that they are using Android? Samsung also adds a lot of software on it, "said Cook.
Cook's words have a point, but he's talking about what has and is happening now. He did not discuss the possibility that could happen in the future. While Android is increasingly dominating the market for smartphones and tablets, whether developers will continue to stick with iOS?
Clearly, this bespectacled guy did want to beat Apple competitors weighing it, at least in terms of market share. "In most regions of the world, we are the number one or two. Do I want to be number one at everything? Of course," He said.