The Businsess Insider’s Jay Yarow “disparages John Kirk’s widely-cited TechPinions piece on Android market share, but addresses none of Kirk’s actual arguments,” JohnGruber writes for Daring Fireball. “Underlying the entirety of Yarow’s piece is Church of Market Share dogma: higher market share is always better, just because. But here’s a paragraph I actually agree with: Based on these quotes, the goal for Apple shouldn’t be to be the company with the most money in the bank. It should be to make the best products in the world, and get them in as many hands as possible.”
Gruber writes, “That’s exactly what Apple is doing… Apple’s profits are the result of having achieved their goal: making the best products and getting them into the hands of the most people. The and there is very important. In simple terms, iOS is what you get when you try to make the best products and maximize the number of people who use them; Android devices are what you get when you try to maximize the number of people who use them.”
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