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>>Open your mind a little. Not everything is about the profit-making horserace.

At the end of the day, it's money that makes the world go round. If you're making more profit than your competitors, you're getting ahead, because you have more money for R&D, more money for marketing, more money for buying promising start-ups, and more money for lawsuits.

I mean, the fact that Apple has a war chest of tens of billions of dollars in cash - more than the treasuries of many countries - paints a really bleak and hopeless future for Android.

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This is wrong even in the context of economics. The whole history of the tech industry is a story of cheaper mass market solutions winning out over more expensive ones. Apple is the "IBM" in this chapter and Android is the "DEC" (or "Apple" I guess, though that's confusing). That's not a great place to be, even though it makes you more money in the short term.

Some Android manufacturers are profitable though.

This is like comparing two people with one making $1 million & the other $100,000.

Then saying that the latter has a very bleak future.

And I have to disagree with you, I don't believe that money makes the world go round.

In your world maybe.

While money doesn't make the world go round it does pay for producing your next set of products. So if you aren't making money on your current handsets, eventually you'll run out of capital to continue developing your next gen handsets.

"...paints a really bleak and hopeless future for Android."

Siri, remind enraged_camel to read this comment again in five years. Having a lot of money on hand doesn't mean you can easily spend all your competitors out of business.

"I mean, the fact that Apple has a war chest of tens of billions of dollars in cash - more than the treasuries of many countries - paints a really bleak and hopeless future for Android."

How does stupid bullshit like this actually make it to this website?