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Originally Posted by WoodDraw
I don't think Apple really cares much, tbh. They target the high end smart phone market and they'll continue to have a high market share there. If other people want to come out and sell $50 Android phones, that will help Android's market share, but Apple never targeted that market to begin with.
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I'd always thought that way, but the article's point about developers moving where the people are is a valid one.
I don't think it'll ever be anywhere close to where the Mac vs. Windows thing is in terms of software availability since apps are generally much simpler to program than full-fledged desktop applications are. However, if the forecasts posted earlier are accurate, that would leave iOS with only 1/3rd the market share as iOS. Add to that the fact that Blackberry is adding a way to run Android apps, and that's roughly 4 times as many users who can run Android apps as iOS apps. I'd think that would cause fairly significant changes in the amount of effort developers put into apps for iOS, but I guess we'll see.