Serious and thoughtful question here, since this may sound flippant - Could the Apple ecosystem of devices be the factor that enables the distribution of marke

Serious and thoughtful question here, since this may sound flippant - Could the Apple ecosystem of devices be the factor that enables the distribution of market caps? (Very interesting point, by the way) I wonder if it explains the somewhat odd gap in the middle of the China market cap distribution, since Android absolutely dominates the China market at the tail end and Apple dominates at the high end. Apple conflates their walled garden with the high perceived value of their devices, which I'm intentionally ignoring for the purpose of this question.