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84% market share is a loss if you don't make any money on your product.

• GotAnyMegadeth 12y ago
  Well you are still potentially stopping your competitors from making money on their product.
  • bsbechtel 12y ago
    That's certainly true, although I don't think Apple is struggling in the revenue department these days. To be fair, Android has contributed to Google's core business by massively expanding the reach of their search ads...or so the story goes.
• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > 84% market share is a loss if you don't make any money on your product. Its a win if it is preventing a competitor from getting the kind of dominance in a market that is key to delivery of a product on which you do make money (like, in Google's case, mobile platforms are to online advertising) that they could use to extract rents that would cut into those profits. Chrome and Android don't need to make money directly to be successful, they just need to be popular enough that other browser or mobile OS vendors can't use their position to cut off Google's advertising revenues.