You're misremembering things, Google had already passed Apple in US marketshare in 2010: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/12/business/la-fi-google-apple-20

You're misremembering things, Google had already passed Apple in US marketshare in 2010: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/12/business/la-fi-google-apple-20100512 http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/12/business/la-fi-googl... In the US, Google accounted for 28% of smartphones versus Apple's 21%. Apple opened its App Store in July 10, 2008. Google opened up its Android Market in 22 October 2008. If you follow Apple's conference calls, you'd realize that Apple gives frequent updates of the amount being paid out to developers. In the last quarter, Apple paid developers approx. $500 million. So far as I can see, Google doesn't release figures for what they pay Android developers in either app or ad revenues. If Google was to be more transparent with their revenues and how much Android developers receive, then there could be a genuine accounting for how each platform is doing, but ironically in these instances Apple is far more open than Google.