Apple has been outpaced with Tablet sales

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dallas said:

famousringo said:

Why is marketshare so important? Android's marketshare hasn't made Google anywhere near the most profitable company in mobile, nor has it made Android the leading platform for mobile development. The 6 million estimated Kindle sales do nothing for Google, nor do untold millions of other "Android" devices that replace Google's services with competitors like Bing and Baidu.

The fact is that Google crows loudly about Android's marketshare because it is the only metric that makes Android look like a success, while iOS wins in revenue, profit, software sales, even Google's own search ad revenues.

We've seen this before. Remember back in 2008 when Wii fans like myself were certain that the console's breakout success would lead to a surge of third party development that would carry the console to historic lifetime sales? That never happened, because marketshare isn't the be-all, end-all of platform success. The monumental success of platforms like Windows and Playstation 2 have tricked us into believing market share is all that matters, but reality is more complex.

I've seen Android described as an unguided missile. It's taken off like a rocket, but Google has absolutely no control over where it will strike. It's proven to be just as capable of empowering rivals like Amazon and Baidu as it has Google, and it hasn't been particularly successful in stopping Apple.

Well, about your point concerning apple; you do realize that Apple has lost both market share and stock value lately, right?  The drop in stock price was seen as a  *result* of the loss in market share.

The same market which has decided that Amazon, a company seemingly determined to never earn a profit, is not only a great investment but is actually worth more when it reports an earnings miss? Mr. Market is a loony. It might be a problem if Apple ever needs to raise capital *snicker*, or if Apple ever allows investors to make business decisions for it *serious*.