By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: September 18, 2013
From an article titled, Apple market share: Facts and psychology by Jean-Louis Gassée (discusses the network effect):
Remember netbooks? When Apple was too greedy and stupid to make a truly low-cost Macintosh? Here we go again, Apple refuses to make a genuinely affordable iPhone. There will be consequences — similar to what happened when the Mac refused to join netbooks circling the drain.