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Comment by josteink | Hacker News Reader

> Even now Samsung make the majority of money in the Android world

Making the majority of money is completely irrelevant to actual market-share. Who makes the majority of devices?

Why would market share numbers be interesting when the switching costs are so low? You live by the commodity market, you die by the commodity market.

As a customer and consumer I prefer a diverse market full of smaller actors, than a market dominated by one Giant actor doing whatever the fuck it likes, just because it can.

This should be the natural state of any market. Why do you prefer monopolies charging you more than they need to? What do you find better or more "interesting" about that?

The point is that in saying that Samsung derives benefit from market share, you have to acknowledge that that benefit is reduced because there's no good way for Samsung to use that market share advantage to keep people attached to their platform, because they don't have control over their platform.

Making money is the only significant metric. They may have a large market share but if they're not making money from it who cares?

As a non-stock-holder in said companies, I couldn't give a rats ass in who makes the most money.

Having a dozen companies each making a little money represents a much healthier market than one giga-corp taking the lions-share. What we're seeing in China is the market moving to a healthier, more natural and sustainable state.

I find that much more important. As a consumer/customer that benefits me.

Whose interest do you have in mind?

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