If you're comparing Apple and almost any competitor on the basis of market share, Apple is going almost always going to look like a loser.
Re-do this analysis and look at profit margins instead, and see how Apple looks.
Re-do this analysis and look at profit margins instead, and see how Apple looks.
An incentive structure like that means that the Apple ecosystem will typically have the first-and-best development support.
That is why a consumer might care.
Profit can be a measure of quality, assuming an efficient market.
Apple and Samsung are the only companies making a profit selling mobile phones, and apple makes vastly more profits than samsung does, with a much smaller fraction of the market share.