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To: i-node who wrote (109078)	2/13/2011 4:55:01 PM
From: Cogito	1 Recommendation Respond to of 213183

>>When you refer to market share you can be talking about installed base or the portion of the total market that was sold by a given mfr in the MRQ.<< The difference isn't hard to figure out. Market share refers to sales within a given period of time. Installed base refers to the number of people actively using a given device or platform. You can be sure when I talk about one or the other, I'm not confusing the two. The two different figures given for Apple's market share in that article do not contradict one another, however. The first, 4%, is for iOS, and the second, 0.3%, is for iPhones. So we've been talking about two different things. The iPhone's loss of market share is probably within the margin of error for this collection of data, and thus can't be considered significant, particularly in light of the 93% year-over-year growth in iPhone sales. I don't think claim that iPhone's growth has been stopped by Android is valid.