The Problem With Apple's Mobile Market Share
Business Insider, Monday, November 19, 2012 12:02 PM
That Apple continues to lose global market share to Android is obviously a bad thing. Why that is, however, is somewhat complicated, Henry Blodget suggests. “The reason market share is
important is that mobile is a ‘platform market,’” he writes in Business Insider. “In platform markets, third-party companies build products and services on top of other
companies' platforms. As they do, the underlying platforms become more valuable.”
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