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by RyanMcGreal 5011 days ago
> 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.
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gordeh 5011 days ago
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.

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moystard 5011 days ago
As opposed to Amazon philosophy which is to sell hardware to allow people to access their ecosystem, which is their main source of money.
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moystard 5011 days ago
Agree but for now that is not the case, they still have a strong market out there and the recent iPhone 5 release is a good confirmation.
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