[melange]

Share is pretty much meaningless, and assumes a zero sum game of direct competition.

[danmaz74]

I only cited it because it was a favorite argument when Android started to grow in the smartphones space - "but Apple gets almost all the profits"...

[melange]

That is true. And is clearly true in the tablet space too (as well as PCs). It's just a lot more nuanced in both directions.

Android can have higher unit share and 'inferior' products while Apple can have higher profit share and the 'best' (single inflexible) product, almost indefinitely because they are satisfying different needs.

Which raises the question: where is there actual competition?

Clearly Samsung and Apple are competing for some of the same customers, but the overlap is small compared to the overall market.