| dallas said: Somewhat unimportant for apple perhaps |
Or, more likely, an important point for fanboys to argue about on internet forums. Businesses offer services and sell products to make money. Apple is much better at making money than Google. It's nice for Google to have a huge slice of the market but it hasn't turned into enormous profits for them compared to Apple's closed strategy and smaller marketshare. If Windows 8 Phone becomes a player in the high-end phone market (and here's hoping they do), Google could see their high profit phones marginalized as a third option becomes viable for high-usage (and therefore, high-profit) customers. It's very possible that by offering an open and slow to update operating system that depends largely on carrier support to code/update the OS, Google has positioned themselves to dominate the lowest profit phones. That's not a good thing. I'm not saying that's what is going to happen but it's a real possibility. Google's OS strategy has its flaws, just as Microsoft and Apple have their own flaws.
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