| dallas said: Ok, so which product marketing strategy is working better so far? Which is gaining market share faster? |
Considering how Google makes no money from the Android OS and that the people who buy cheap phones tend to not use their data functionality as much (meaning less app sales per customer and less advertising revenue via Google's services), using straight marketshare isn't the greatest comparison in the world, especially when you're comparing it to Apple, which makes a boatload on the hardware and then turns around and makes another boatload on the software (iPhone users buy far more apps than other phone owners).
I'm not slighting Google or Android at all; both offer services/features I admire. But when a large segment of your "market dominance" comes from people from which you make zero or virtually zero money, using straight marketshare numbers is pretty useless.
I haven't checked in awhile but I know that very recently, Apple turned a higher profit from the iPhone than Google did as a company. One product versus an entire company and Apple still came out on top. While marketshare and volume numbers might impress fanboys while squawking on internet forums, shareholders and companies tend to prefer making actual money.
And when it comes to actual profit, Apple is the top dog by a significant margin.
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