[holymadness]

Originally Posted by Sil_liS

Ah, so the problem is that you can't read graphs. Android's share is oscillating around 50%, it's not declining. Apple's share increased by taking market share from everyone else.

"Oscillating around 50%" is a cute way of saying declined by 16.6% over the same 12-week period last year. The real problem is your disingenuousness.

The "Android is eating Apple's lunch" bubble is not affected by the first dataset because of the different mindsets of the companies when it comes to profit.

So what lunch is Android supposed to be eating if not profits? What is the point? Number of cheerleading posts on mobileread? Is that the lunch that got eaten? Is that why Google has spent $15-20Bn on Android over the last five years, including the Motorola purchase?

Hilarious. Suddenly, companies don't compete for profits. Profits don't matter. Try telling that to the shareholders of HTC, Samsung, LG, and Google. Unbelievable.

Apple charges $649 for a phone that costs $207 to manufacture, while Google doesn't charge for Android.

Clearly you've never owned or run a business, since you seem to think that the only cost of producing a good is the cost of its components and assembly. This distortion is trotted out with unerring reliability in these discussions and only demonstrates how much bad faith exists on the side of those who perpetuate it.

As for the second dataset, it bursts the "Android is eating Apple's lunch" bubble in the same way in which the fact that it snows in winter disproves global warming.

The US is currently the most important smartphone market in the world. I'd say it more than contributes to the general fizzling out of the OP's thesis.