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Originally Posted by Merrymeeting
While I don't disagree with your statement, Apple market share is somewhere between 7 and 10 percent, depending on which report you follow.
Far from the growing market share dominance that many would have you believe. Even if you limit it to just phones, Droids have been outselling Apple, 2-to-1 for the past few quarters.
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Well first off, let's not confuse the statistics between desktop OS market share (Windows, OS X, etc.) and mobile devices. Although both categories have a lot of the same companies in common, they are very different markets.
You would certainly expect Droid mobile phone handsets to outsell the iPhone, if you want to talk about the mobile platform. There are a dozen manufacturers of handsets using the Droid OS, and I think they are on every single cell phone carrier in the US. Apple has 1 handset, the iPhone, and it's been on 1 carrier in the US (this is finally changing next month).
In general Apple's approach has been to deliver a more elegant, better-engineered and robust platform than Microsoft. Google, with Droid and Chrome desktop is stealing more marketshare from Microsoft than Apple.
At the end of the day, OS wars are silly. There are many choices and users are free to choose whatever suits them best. All companies have areas where they excel greatly, and areas where they could stand to improve. Google doesn't really have a full desktop OS yet, but Microsoft and Apple are both multi-billion dollar companies in the OS market. To assert that either of them are not making a "popular" or usable product is just silly.