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They did it the right way for a very long time and yet people keep buying iPhones, I think I would do the same if I were them, users clearly don't seem to care about openness and freedom to use their devices however they want. I mean, people care about the color of archaic text messages. There is nothing to save.

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>>baby+(OP)
Android has like 70-80% global market share.

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>>pier25+k4
And none of that (sadly) is about openness. It's about price. The iOS share of mobile spending is basically the inverse: ~70% iOS, ~30% Android.

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>>baby+(OP)
Why would they do something to hurt the customers that stick with them, just to spite the ones that don't?

>>reissb+w7
Spending on hardware, or spending on in-app purchases?

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>>pier25+k4
iOS market share: 56% in Australia (where I live) [1]; 58% in United States [2]; 47% in UK [3]; 64% in Japan [4]; 60% in Canada [5]; 55% in Denmark [6]; 54% in Switzerland [7]; 55% in Sweden [8].

Yes, I've cherry picked from the minority of countries with near or over half iOS market share. But, they're all high GDP countries with a very valuable customer base. Apple and Google care about these markets, they don't care about global market share.

>>orbisv+sl
Neither, they are talking about 'the ratio of people buying apps'.