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If that’s true, it means almost nobody pays for any software on Android. The fact a lot of people download free apps is pretty much meaningless. You may as we

• entropicdrifter 6y ago
  So, in your mind, the world's most active software ecosystem is failing because it doesn't extract as much capital as a system set up as a premium product ecosystem targeted at the world's elites? Interesting take. By the same logic, you could argue that Linux is failing relative to both OS X and Windows in the server market because it's not making as much money.
  • zepto 6y ago
    > So, in your mind, the world's most active software ecosystem It’s not the world’s most active software ecosystem. The web is. > is failing because it doesn't extract as much capital It is failing as a business. > as a system set up as a premium product ecosystem targeted at the world's elites? If you consider most American teenagers to be ‘the world’s elites’, then ok. > By the same logic, you could argue that Linux is failing relative to both OS X and Windows in the server market because it's not making as much money. Only if it were true, but it isn’t.