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Originally Posted by polak
Woah some of you are out of touch if you think Apple dominates the phone market... Android has had the majority of the smartphone market for over a year now and their share is only growing while Apple is losing some of it's share to Windows/Nokia.
Android currently at 68.1% market share:
Apple is down to 16.9%
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Originally Posted by HELPNEEDED
Fact: Android may have more market share, but Apple has the highest market share as a phone producer. Remember, Android does not produce phones, it is only a piece of open source software.
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I still find it funny when people look at those numbers like that. Android isn't a single company/unified product line - they have dozens of different companies all doing their own thing. It's like comparing the population size of North America to the number of people in the rest of the world and saying - "Holy poop, North America is DOOMED(tm) or clearly not a good place to live in."
Even more importantly, the market share that Apple has accounts for nearly
75% of ALL the profit in that market place.
Between Samsung and Apple,
they hold 99% of ALL the profit there. Roughly 60% of the market is non Samsung and Apple (ie mostly other Android makers) and they don't make ANY money - or are bleeding it through their eyeballs in losses. Who wants a business that has to lose money to hold any kind of market share. Clearly such businesses aren't sustainable and are in serious trouble.
17% market share and making 75% of the all profit? Ummm sure, I'd take that in any market.
