Look at profitability and developer attention in the app ecosystem.

In terms of raw profits, sure, Apple makes more off of its app ecosystem than Google does off of Android, but in terms of health of the app ecosystem itself, the Google Play app store accounted for 20 billion out of the combined total of 28.4 billion app downloads in 2018 ( https://www.techaheadcorp.com/blog/android-vs-ios/ ). I'd hardly call that failing, more like 'utterly dominating'

If that’s true, it means almost nobody pays for any software on Android.

The fact a lot of people download free apps is pretty much meaningless.

You may as well say a lot of people visit websites on Android.

So, in your mind, the world's most active software ecosystem is failing because it doesn't extract as much capital as a system set up as a premium product ecosystem targeted at the world's elites? Interesting take.

By the same logic, you could argue that Linux is failing relative to both OS X and Windows in the server market because it's not making as much money.

> So, in your mind, the world's most active software ecosystem

It’s not the world’s most active software ecosystem. The web is.

> is failing because it doesn't extract as much capital

It is failing as a business.

> as a system set up as a premium product ecosystem targeted at the world's elites?

If you consider most American teenagers to be ‘the world’s elites’, then ok.

> By the same logic, you could argue that Linux is failing relative to both OS X and Windows in the server market because it's not making as much money.

Only if it were true, but it isn’t.