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Originally Posted by elCheapoDeluxe
Originally Posted by
planemechanic
Nope, I think you are confusing a closed market with the greater market, and dismissing the fact that things have changed quite a bit since your link was posted. Apple may have 99.4% of a market in which they only have 17% of the actual handsets in use, but that does not make them dominant in the phone market.
Great. Because my whole point throughout this entire thread has been the mobile app market, regardless of how many handsets they have in use.
But surely, unless Apple licenses it's OS and App Store to other manufacturers (unlikely!), it wields its influence through the handset share of the market?!
It's share of the app market is very much secondary and for the purposes of this thread, irrelevant, as Flash is as much, if not more, a browser issue than an app issue.
Just to re-iterate, the point you're making is that in terms of Apple seeking to use it's influence to trash Flash, it's share of the app market is more relevant than it's share of the smartphone handset market. That really doesn't stand up.