Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT...
by RyanMcGreal on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @07:18AM
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> It is nice to read that Steve Wosniak supports the idea of iTunes on Android but to be honest, it does not make any sense for Apple.
As Apple's smartphone market share continues to erode, it will make more and more sense for Apple to try and capture some of the media purchase revenue from Android users by providing an iTunes app.
Re:Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iT...
by gordeh on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @08:10AM
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Market share is irrelevant to apple. Market share can be bought if you throw enough money at it (See Microsoft's and Nokia's attempts).
As the only people making money from mobile is Samsung and Apple I doubt apple care about market share stats.
The iTunes eco system is there to sell hardware not to make apple tons of money.
The battle of mobiles is not about the hardware and the OS, at least, not only, but about the ecosystem around it. Google would not like its Play ecosystem to be on Apple's device, it is important for them that people buy their platform to get access to it (however, nobody would like to do that nowadays as the Play ecosystem is quite small). Now if you think about iTunes...