>>Having a stable ecosystem at low percentages will be nice to those trying to avoid mobile virus attacks ;-)
Apple (and MS) may be PsITA re their app stores, but guarding the gate is an obvious way to prevent intrusion. The status quo always was a bad idea, but only because vendors (including MS) apparently weren't as capable as hackers of understanding the consequences of leaving all the doors open for easy access.
>>Those 19000 are 820, which are plunging in price here while being capable phones. Too bad that subsidizing via telcos makes stats on percentage of $ paid muddy.
Sheer numbers determine what device is worth development attention. The numeric disparity is so great that it's more rational to target Samsung phones than WP phones.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
