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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
might want to check out the latest market share stats before making statements like that
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Five Reasons Why Google Android versus Apple iOS Market Share Numbers Don't Matter. - Forbes
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Apple makes money on hardware, Google does not. For investors, this matters. Google gives away its Android operating system in order to have real estate on mobile devices and, therefore, ubiquity is critical for Google to deliver ads. On the other hand, Apple makes money on every iPhone and iPad it sells, even before an ad is delivered to the device. The amount of profits on the hardware is astonishing: It is estimated that Apple earns 70%-75% of the profit for the entire cell phone industry (that is, of all the profit earned by all handset manufacturers) on its own products, which only have roughly 7% of the global market share. Apple is taking its smaller market share all the way to the bank. Just look below at the financial results over the past five years of the different business models:
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Android market share being bigger then iOS market share does not matter. Android is multiple companies whereas iOS is one company.
Is this what you were referring to Skinny?
PS: I will for sure pick up an iPhone 5 to sell and then pick up my Note 2
