If you mean by that bought up and owned by a volume manufacturer or with a relevance that people have to google the name to know who you're talking about: yes.
They kind of do(or did), not sure what your point is. Bently, Bugatti, Aston Martin, Porsche, etc... have all had major trouble recently. Most of the luxury brands have been bought by higher volume manufacturers.
And the car analogy still does not fly. A Bentley will work fine on the same roads a Volkswagen does. However, an iPhone will not run, say, Android apps. If Apple's marketshare drops under a certain percentage, it becomes less and less interesting to treat it as a first-class citizen.
Network effects are very important, however, for now Apple users outspend Android users by a very significant margin, so they can get by with a relatively low market share.
As long as the spending trend continues, developers will continue delivering products for the platform.
Your analogy doesn't hold. The "roads" are carrier networks, and the iPhone plays well in most of those (in fact, latest models have impressive band coverage for data).
Not even sure how Apps fit into the car analogy, but they sure as hell aren't even fuel, maybe accessories or tires?
Thanks for the comment. When I first got the domain name, the word "disrupt" was still fashionable. So jobrupt was "jobs for disruption". May I ask, what bad it evoked in your mind?
A tool for seeing the relationship between chord & scales on the guitar. I built this a few years back to sharpen my Silverlight skills. (stop chuckling). Just rewrote it in HTML & JS, with help from teoria.js.
