You missed my point entirely with your sarcasm. Partner companies selling apps on your service don't care that you only have 43% of the market left to capture;

You missed my point entirely with your sarcasm. Partner companies selling apps on your service don't care that you only have 43% of the market left to capture; that's entirely your business problem, not theirs. However they very much do like that you already have 57% market share; from their perspective, that's good not bad. That's precisely why I write _"it's all a matter of perspective, and the associated revenue model (purchase vs. subscription model). Whether the glass is half-full or empty depends entirely on perspective"_. Understand now? When Palm and then Blackberry died as platforms, vendors simply moved to a new platform and ported/rewrote.