Nokia Q3 2012: loss of $754 million. Lumia sales have dropped to 2.9 million.

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dallas said:

If anybody's going to threaten apple?  The analysts have it predicted that android will be doing this soon enough, in a year or two in fact. This isn't a great article but the opinion is all over the net, and it doesn't look great for apple if they want to have the highest market share.  Luckily though, apple is a very high margin company, and they dont need all that much market share to bring in a lot of profit.

http://gantdaily.com/2012/11/13/android-tablets-will-dethrone-the-ipad-off-its-tablet-throne-according-to-analyst/

Marketshare is treated as an end in itself, but in actuality it never has been. It's a means to market control, a way to ensure good product support,  distribution and economies of scale. Apple already has better support, distribution and economies of scale than any of their tablet rivals, and they've never felt the need to control the market, only their own destiny. Nothing that a competitor can do will destroy Apple's retail chain, and a dozen competing OEMs releasing new models every month can't beat Apple's scale, so that leaves product support as the only angle where attacking Apple's tablet position is even possible. But rivals only have pieces of the puzzle, and I don't think they're going to form Voltron any time soon.