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This is why Apple is going berserk: Android extends US marketshare lead, Samsung tops platform’s OEMs
Analytics firm Nielsen statistics from their Q2 2012 subscriber data has shown Android extend its significant lead over Apple, with a 51.8% marketshare compared
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+Scott Ingram it may be, but we seem to be in a different world in terms of exclusive content lockup which doomed Betamax.
Just for the record, the graph in the article is not correctly depicting the balances of power. Android + Apple have 85% of the market instead of the 57% that the segments occupy of the total. Pretty sloppy for a company like Nielsen.
Microsoft Windows gets 16% of the area instead of the 4.4% they really have! Windows get same area as RIM (16%) but RIM has 9% in reality, twice the share of Windows.
I'm not that good with graphics but someone should resize the area's to their correct sizes. That would show how dominating the big ones are and how futile the Windows share is. Wonder who payed for this research.
+Glenn Costello very true. Yet at the base of that comparison, Beta was the superior product and VHS was the cheaper of the two. Those results speak for themselves.
+Glenn Costello may I ask what phone do you carry? We're talking about Apple vs Google (as Android). Apple is going against the OEMs only because going after Google which is a very profitable company isn't an easy task. What Apple is doing is litigating instead of innovating.
+Seth Goldstein Samsung's Q1 2012 profits were greater than Google's Q1 2012 revenue so I respectfully disagree with your rationale. My understanding is the fact that Google gives away Android makes them hard to go after. They are not a competitor, the handset makers are.
The phone I carry is a Droid X. I really like it! Unfortunately Motorola's handset business was a money-bleeding disaster, luckily Google's scramble to obtain at least some IP gave them an exit. I don't know what Google is going to do with them. I hope they at least get one spot in the Nexus program..
What I would say Apple is doing is innovating and litigating. Which is not to say that each of their various patents that they are enforcing are good or even valid examples of innovation. What I don't understand is why people think they shouldn't try to enforce their rights under the legal system. Their competitors are hard-nosed business people just like them. You don't see Google pulling search from iPhone or Samsung refusing Apple's manufacturing business. Its only the people who think they might see a couple weeks delay in getting their shiny toys who are getting all worked up and boycotting.
+Glenn Costello have to disagree here. I'm ok with hard-nosed businesses, but there is something dishonest and devious about the way Apple is using a thin air product to control the whole sector. It's using tricks from the books of Microsoft and Monsanto, 2 companies nobody would mourn about when they were toppled. Soon Apple will be the third in that lineup.
+Marc Roelofs Well I can't argue with you because I don't know what you mean by a "thin air product". I'm not at all familiar with Monsanto. I remember Microsoft using their monopoly position in a variety of ways to control the operating system market and of course, they were found to be in violation of anti-trust laws. As many Android fans like to point out, Apple does not even have majority market share so I don't imagine they are at any risk of anti-trust violation. Dishonest and devious? They are taking advantage of a broken patent system, no doubt about it. If what you are doing is reported on every day and dissected ad nauseum and boycotted I'm not sure you're being very devious.
+Marc Roelofs It's interesting, since you mentioned Microsoft, how they are flying under the radar lining up patent licensing deals with most of the Android manufactures. How the world has changed!
+Glenn Costello I mean that it's just a clever smartphone design, nothing more. No development in 5 years. A one trick pony. On that basis they are making the rest of the businesses jump through hoops and are locking in concepts. At the same time 'borrowing' old concepts from Android without even acknowledging it.
I'm sure you know all this. To me there is more to it than just plain competition. The disregard for technological heritage and future possibilities in the name of self advancement is disgusting to me.
Even if they're found out we can call them devious 
Btw. you should maybe readup on Monsanto, if you're interested in what some consider the ultimate evil in business.
+Marc Roelofs no I certainly don't "know" all that, it's merely your perspective, and I have quite a different perspective, so we'll have to agree to disagree.
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The weird thing about these sorts of headlines is that apple is a company and android is an operating system. Compared to other companies, apple has far greater market share and vastly greater profitability. HTC and motorola are both losing money. I'm sure they would gladly trade market share for anything like apples margins. I don't lose too much sleep over Samsung facing litigation, their CEO was able to bribe his way out of a tax evasion rap, I'm sure they will be ok.