Apple will never be the dominant mobile OS until they start producing phones for under 100 dollars, heck 50 dollars and we all know that will never happen. Microsoft will also never purchase Android and Android isn't going anywhere soon. I'm not sure where you've concocted your ideas from but their either fanboy wishful thinking or just delusional. There are other countries outside of the US and most of them can't afford an Apple product let alone ever seen one, so your actually saying that Apple will forgo it's huge margins just to capture the rest of the world's mobile markets, yeah, again, will never happen. Apples has 18.3% share of the global smartphone market, Android has 83% and this is just smart phones, the only mobile market Apple is in, the dumbphone market is a lot larger by a enormous proportion.
Your numbers are off.
First, 18.3 + 83 = 101.3.
Second, two-thirds of mobile phones sold last year were smartphones. The dumbphone market is not "a lot larger by a enormous proportion"; it is in fact dying.
I agree that Apple will probably never own a majority market share (nor do they want to), but you should argue from numbers that aren't five years old.
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Your numbers are off.
First, 18.3 + 83 = 101.3.
Second, two-thirds of mobile phones sold last year were smartphones. The dumbphone market is not "a lot larger by a enormous proportion"; it is in fact dying.
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2015/03/04/apple-passes-samsung/
I agree that Apple will probably never own a majority market share (nor do they want to), but you should argue from numbers that aren't five years old.