![I hate to say it but Apple may end up reliving [with iPhone] its nightmare experience in the personal computer market - that is, arriving ahead of everyone else (in 1984) with a device that was really cool and really well built and really showed what the platform could do, but then keeping everything closed and thereby ending up a niche player. (Daniel Lyons)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/22/daniel-lyons-apple-built-529922.webp)
I hate to say it but Apple may end up reliving [with iPhone] its nightmare experience in the personal computer market - that is, arriving ahead of everyone else (in 1984) with a device that was really cool and really well built and really showed what the platform could do, but then keeping everything closed and thereby ending up a niche player.
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Macarius of Egypt
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Harry Shum, Jr.
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Henry Blodget
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Tim Berners-Lee
We like our model, as we are evolving it. In every category Apple competes, it's the low-volume player, except in tablets. In the PC market, obviously the advantage of diversity has mattered since 90-something percent of PCs that get sold are Windows PCs. We'll see what winds up mattering in tablets.
Steve Ballmer
