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Great read. Definitely worth a read.

Interestingly, Apple has become the middleman on mobile that he warned us Microsoft might be on web.



How is that? Android has FAR more marketshare relative to what Apple has in this space now, than what Microsoft had relative to Apple on desktops


I hate that statistic. Apple makes far more money from their App Store sales than Google does, and Google supposedly owns a substantially larger part of that market. I'd like to see breakdowns of this market share geographically. I'd like to see U.S. market share, and then regionally in the U.S. how that market share pans out. And then demographically how that pans out. In my demographic, in the Southeast U.S., I can anecdotally tell you that Android does not have anywhere close to the market share that iPhone does.


Prime example of anecdotal evidence not being worth much. You're subject to bias based on your income level: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/05/android-iphone-state/


I meant demographically age-wise not job-wise. Either way, you're right, it's just anecdotal. But I'd love to see the breakdown for 18-30 year olds in geographic regions around the country, and then for countries in general.




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