> — Closed creates markets (see Macintosh and iPhone);
What market created the iPhone?
And after reading all the "article", it is only another Kirk article about how good Apple is and how bad are the others
I think his point was that the closed iPhone created the smart phone market.
Except that smartphones existed before the iPhone, even App Stores did, but they were primarily business user focused.I mean, I had a Kyocera Palm Phone, which was one of the first PalmOS phones in 20011.
No, the article is about how marketshare isn't everything when you've got high value customers.