http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57510406-37/iphone-5-faces...
The market is already open. Apple has never dominated. They just make a really good product that's loved by millions. :-) It's also clear that even more people are happier choosing a different phone.
Does any one really think Cook is loosing sleep at night because he wants customers from "android's share"? He wants users from the rite market segment aka the ones who spend money. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say they have quite a bit of those types.
-- Edit: spelling
If your point is that there will be 3X as many Android devices, fine.
but a market of 1 billion? I'll take it.
A lot of people had feature phones that had Java ME or BREW, but aside from telephony and texting, many only ever played Snake on it. If the phone manufacturers aren't making much money off of the hardware bought by feature phone upgraders, how much will Google or other ecosystem vendors make much off of the software side?
In this context the interesting definition of 'market share' is the one that focuses on platforms. There isn't very much interesting to be gleaned by making the distinction that Apple has a bigger market share than Samsung as Samsung and other Android OEMs collectively benefit from Android's market share.