I'm as big a fan of taking shots at Apple as anyone, but only when it's on topic. This is about mobile. Apple's inability to gain traction on the desktop for decades didn't affect the popularity of their take on the smartphone and tablet.

And it isn't even relevant now. In the PC market Apple needs no large market share to make boatloads of money.

They actually don't in mobile either. The iPhone and iPad market shares could both drop to single digits and they'd still be making more than the Android manufacturers. The fact they have a much more 'competitive' market share is just large boat loads of gravy.