{"id":2789,"date":"2017-02-15T17:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:17:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:17:44","slug":"apples-market-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/apples-market-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Market Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When smart phones initially released, they were looked upon as an &#8220;addition.&#8221; Most people did not see the need in a smart phone and the majority of people stuck with their normal flip-phones. As time went by people started to change their perception of smart phones from an &#8220;addition,&#8221; to a necessity. In today&#8217;s world, it is more difficult to spot a flip phone than it is to spot a smart phone. Almost everyone has a smartphone and often times peoples livelihood are be dependent on it. But there is an interesting twist to the smartphone market&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2790\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tim-Cook.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2790 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tim-Cook-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tim-Cook-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tim-Cook-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tim-Cook-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tim-Cook-624x418.jpg 624w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tim-Cook.jpg 2040w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/201;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAN FRANCISCO, CA &#8211; SEPTEMBER 12: Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on September 12, 2012 in San Francisco, California.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is a good possibility that over 90% of the class has an Apple made iPhone. Whether it be an iPhone 4S or a brand new iPhone 7. A recent poll shows that Apple has captured 91% of the global smartphone market. This means that Samsung, Google, HTC, and a few other small phone companies are holding only a 9% share of the rest of the phone market. Further proving that Apple has managed to satisfy its consumers year after year. Apple has also stressed the importance of new innovation and new ideas to its employees. Apple has done something that no other company has before. They have revolutionized a single market by offering high end products and making the consumers feel as if they\u00a0can&#8217;t settle for anything less.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When smart phones initially released, they were looked upon as an &#8220;addition.&#8221; Most people did not see the need in a smart phone and the majority of people stuck with their normal flip-phones. As time went by people started to change their perception of smart phones from an &#8220;addition,&#8221; to a necessity. In today&#8217;s world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}