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To: pyslent who wrote (175051)	9/24/2014 10:06:57 PM
From: Ryan Bartholomew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Android has been poison to every handset OEM that has adopted it. Even Samsung's profits are regressing to the mean ($0). I don't see it as a solution to either BB or Apple's woes. A bit of post hoc there. What makes you think that if the manufacturers had chosen Windows or alternative platforms that they would be better off? The nature of their products are that they are easily substituted. For Apple, that's not the case. iOS users are locked in with no other iOS choices. Adding Android, Windows, or other capabilities wouldn't change this - it would merely add options, not take them away. As long as iOS maintains a reasonably sized niche worldwide, Apple will keep selling substantial quantities of high-margin devices and remain quite profitable. If the popularity slips below some threshold, however, external devices that increasingly interact with phones will start to ignore the platform. How many cars, watches, home appliances, TVs, etc are blackberry-compatible, for example?