[do_it_simpler]

How much more money can Google make with the data they get from that 87% of market share than Apple can make from the iPhones themselves?

[nileshtrivedi]

Isn't that like asking "How much money Apache web server made?" Did IIS "win" the HTTP-server wars?

[denzil_correa]

You have a legitimate point but that is tangential to the parent comment which says that Anroid (an operating system) wins over iPhone (a hardware) because Android has more market share. I was merely asking if market share translated to money. If so, what was the difference and how did Android win?

[do_it_simpler]

Ah, I see now. I took your question as saying that Apple "won" the smartphone wars because their sales are (iirc) more profitable. My mistake.

[mariobertschler]

for the record, I did not claim that Android wins over iPhone, the point is that the article claimed the opposite