Its a long article, by an Apple insider, so am sure some of the Droid-heads here won't read it, but my salient lines from it are: ".......Google's free Android software has facilitated the rapid development of hardware products. But it isn't doing this very successfully, because the majority of Android licensees are losing money on Android hardware (including Google itself) because the products Android helps to "innovate" are not compelling enough to attract premium buyers" ".....while Google and its Android partners would love to have a larger cut of the lucrative, premium phone market, they have simply been unable to deliver products that the market desires, with the notable exception of Samsung. And Samsung's success hasn't been due to using Android; it's quite clearly due to using Apple's designs<http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/13/samsung-no-disputing-we-sold-apples-property-and-owe-a-huge-sum-of-money> ." "The reality is that Android isn't taking share from Apple; it's falling to maintain the dominant share position Sun's Java Mobile once held, and it's having to do this via desperate volume plays involving loss leaders or the razor thin margins of low end product categories that Apple isn't even bothering to address......." Full article - http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/14/how-android-lost-global-open-marke... ./Ok3ch