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dublinben  ·  4652 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Appleā€™s Lead in Smartphones Is Not Guaranteed
What lead? iOS was overtaken by Android last year. They've been holding steady under 20% for two years while Android has been taking off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World-Wide-Smartphone-Mar...

"As I see it, that 37 million for last quarter represented 24 percent of the smartphone market. So three out of four people bought something else. And it represented less than 9 percent of the handset market, so nine out of 10 people are buying something else." -Tim Cook

Apple doesn't want any more market share than it has, and it will likely never see any more market share than it currently has.





notseamus  ·  4652 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Apple probably make more on iphones than every one else too: http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/29/apple-captured-two-thirds-o...

via Jon Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2011/09/winning

So I don't think apple mind too much,.