Clayton M. Christensen - Apple Quotes

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So the people using the Android operating system are now Motorola, Samsung, LG. And they are killing Apple: now, Android accounts for about 80 percent of the market.

Clayton M. Christensen

The prediction of [my disruption] theory would be that Apple won't succeed with the iPhone. They've launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to beat: It's not [truly] disruptive. History speaks pretty loudly on that, that the probability of success is going to be limited.

Clayton M. Christensen

The transition from proprietary architecture to open modular architecture just happens over and over again. It happened in the personal computer. Although it didn't kill Apple's computer business, it relegated Apple to the status of a minor player. … You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple.

Clayton M. Christensen

I think [the Vista fiasco] will allow [Apple] to survive for a bit longer.

Clayton M. Christensen