According to Blodget, developers will flock to the platform with the largest user base. Apparently despite the fact that those users don't buy as many apps.

The Android gains matter because technology platform markets tend to standardize around a single dominant platform (see Windows in PCs, Facebook in social, Google in search).

As has been by , this is just wrong. Yes, it happened in PCs and search. And video cassettes. And mayonnaise when . However, there are plenty of counter-examples, the most appropriate being game consoles.

But, as they don't fit into the narrative, let's just discard them!

(If you include iPod touches in the calculation, ).