Because at the end of the day market share is about dollars. And the fact the other companies don't recognize this is why they're all floundering and why some of them won't make it another 10 years in the business.

When you're taking into account "market" it's really about the platform, not about the specific device. When tallying Android numbers which devices do you pick? Do you pick only those with a cellular baseband? Must it support voice? The iPad has 3G service and you can run voip apps. Maybe its screen is too big? Do you include the Dell Streak? Do you include the Evo?

I'm not saying one should include the iPod (touch, not other models) when doing a simple phone-based chart, but rather that such a chart and analysis doesn't tell a story that's very significant. Everyone knows there's only one iPhone, so it's not going to be a big surprise that 30 other companies shipping phones with "Android" OS are going to eventually catch up. To me that doesn't signify dominance, it signifies how pathetic the rest of the industry is. It takes more than a dozen OEMs to even come close to match Apple's unit sales on a single SKU, while still not matching their profits. Pathetic.

As an investor it should be clear where to steer your money. As a developer it should be clear what platform to invest in.