The Macalope Weekly: Google bomb

07.08.2011

But that's not winning because bladdity blooga derp derp.

See, market share is so much easier to measure! Can't we just say it's market share like we've done forever?! Well, it's good enough for , but not .

It's pretty hard to compare how much money Apple's making on iOS devices to how much Google's making on Android, because they're in two different businesses. that Google makes between $10 and $20 over the lifetime of each Android device sold. That's sold and retained for the life of the unit, which is a somewhat different number than what's in most of these market-share reports, considering . With a return rate like that, you'd darn well better sell a lot of units.

Surely Lee will address the many patent issues that Android faces, as well as the issues of app quality, Android malware, and hahahaha here we go with the fake laughing again because, no, of course he won't.

This explains why iOS has been losing ground to Android even though most people agree that the iPhone is the best single smartphone on the market.