[TheKarateKid]

You really think Apple's success with the iPhone is because of them manufacturing them in China? That has nothing to do with it, as hardware pricing is not why Windows Phone failed or even why Android is declining.

If anything, Apple won by playing exactly the Windows playbook with software: Embrace, extend, extinguish. I'll add a new one: Restrict. (App Store)

[vaxman]

No, I think Apple's success with iPhone is because they locked competing products out of all available manufacturing capacity for long enough to corner the market. It just so happens that manufacturing capacity was in China, due to the prior era of PC clone manufacturing by Taiwan-based companies.