Apple has a near-monopoly like Microsoft? In what way? iPhone has only 15% of the worldwide smartphone market, and that share shrank slightly 3Q11 vs. 3Q10. M

Apple has a near-monopoly like Microsoft? In what way? iPhone has only 15% of the worldwide smartphone market, and that share shrank slightly 3Q11 vs. 3Q10. Meanwhile Android went from 25.3% 3Q10 worldwide smartphone market to 52.5% 3Q11. In one year they doubled their share and tripled their quarterly units-shipped (20.5M to 60.5M). Source: Gartner, November 2011 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1848514 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1848514 And Microsoft still has 92% of the desktop OS market, and holding: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustomb=0 http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-shar...