Think local, act global

Horace Dediu takes a look at the peculiar nature of the global smartphone market. It is wildly divergent, even though computing traditionally has converged. The important consideration here – and Horace points out, maybe Apple’s team already understood this – is that there might be a far smaller chance than we think of any one platform capturing so dominant a share and that some markets may not yet be worth fighting with all resources as they vastly favor a different set of incumbents. In other words, maybe Apple called it right with the 5c pricing…