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A woeful week for Apple is probably a good thing for the rest of the tech industry, a top channel guru declared today, even if it doesn't mean a new sense of humility within the Infinite Loop. Steve Brazier, opening the Canalys Channels Forum in Singapore today, repeated his assertion that Apple currently dominated the tech …

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  1. Silverburn

    Given the state of the channel (margins, stock etc), and the fact Apple runs its own stores and pretty much takes all the margin, why does anyone bother reselling apple kit?

    Only a mass dumping of their lines by multi big names, robbing apple of reach and share, will encourage apple to be more channel friendly.

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      Maybe the channel is responding to what customers are wanting. If people stopped selling Apple kit they may find the customer wants Apple kit and just goes and buys it direct or from someone else and the 'reseller' loses that revenue and all the install / service revenue as well.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Channel.. lulz

    They'll go the way of the travel agents. Wake up guys, it's not just Apple who's dumping you.

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  3. P. Lee

    > suggesting it was not healthy for a single firm to so dominate tech.

    Hardly!

    They may dominate profits in the mobile industry, but they don't dominate the tech.

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    Perhaps Apple should just buy Google and have done with it - get their mapping, ad system and search - jobs (pardon the pun) a good un.

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      Google is expensive

      Ignoring for a moment that Apple only does acquisitions with prices with an 'm' in them and not a 'b', they'd be far better off buying Nokia. Nokia's mapping software is from all accounts superior to Google's, they have a much larger cache of mobile patents, and fewer businesses they'd have to sell off or close. More importantly, it'd cost a fraction of what Google would.

      I mean c'mon, I could maybe see Apple keeping search if they owned Google, but they'd have no interest in running all the stuff like Mail, Apps, Shopping, Google+ and the dozens of others. Apple likes to specifically target on particular businesses, while Google is willing to try anything and see if it works. It'd be like Exxon buying P&G.

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  7. This Side Up
    FAIL

    Hiring a guy from Dixons?

    What did they expect?

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