so Ipad sales drop for the first time yoy for a quarter, and profits dropped as well. Should Apple decrease the prices? Should they be worried?

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famousringo said:

Zappykins said:
Anyone know why they separate Kindle Fire and Android? The Kindle Fire runs Android, although a heavily modified version, but it's still an Android.

There are important differences depending on who you are. For example, developers need to deal with a different app store if they want to target Kindle users, with different requirements, services, and terms and conditions. If you're Google, your default search status is gone and all your apps and services have been stripped out.

Even the end user, who might supposedly use the same apps and services whether it's a Kindle or a Nexus, will find that the default apps and services guide their usage patterns. Most people tend to go with the default, unless they have a very compelling reason to change.

It's been estimated that a third of Android devices have no Google services at all, leading analysts to joke that Android is not a platform itself, but rather a platform for platforms.

Well said, and the rapid growth of the Chinese market will only further enlarge this "dark ecosystem" of Android devices which contribute nothing to Google.  Benedict Evans estimates that it is already quite close to outnumbering all iPhones.