The future plans for our Republic has been well lain. Eventually­, we will have three distinct levels of national society. The unknown ruling element will remain intact. Too, the unshakable middle class will stay afloat. As to the thinning, the slow climbers into the middle class will be completely eliminated­. This will leave a national mob under the nation wide police state, as it expands today. All state and federal employees will receive the highest pay, in order to control them. Our Republic will be reconstruc­ted, as to the have and those who have nothing but soup lines. Artificial inflation plus the profession­s striving from Medicare recipients will dwindle, while the undesirabl­es are slowly fed poisoned food and the lack of medical care. A standing military will be well fed and clothed. This new dictator ship will be absolutely merciless. And the circus will proceed on its well planned events in crucifying any press club that fails to buckle down under physical and mental slavery!”

In the US, if Apple gave up on the AT&T exclusivity, the iPhone’s market share would double. So says Morgan Stanley’s anal-yst Kathryn Huberty. See this…

AT&T has already done this with its version of the Backflip phone. No Google apps clutter its screen. Instead, you have Bing for search and a bunch of “AT&T” branded Yahoo apps for email, mapping, etc.

Do you think Verizon whose motto is “So, we’re evil? What are you going to do about it?” isn’t taking notice. Certainly the king of squeezing revenue from their customers must be thinking “Hey, we could do that!”.

In fact, they’re probably thinking, “We could put on our own music app, and take off that annoying Android Market place icon, and of course remove that option to get Apps from other Internet sites too option.” It’ll be like the old days, except better because Verizon is now forcing everyone to take that costly data plan whether they want it or not.

But, you should take into account Orange originated iPhones sales during the same 6 monts period. Say it was 370K, consistently with the 1.5m sold since 2007 (1/4th, it however should be a bit more since the iPhone market is growing). Then it can make a 136% increase in volume. If the market is stable, it’s about the same in market share.

Market share is often measured in sales. You seem to compute only installed based share in your reasonning, which is misleading for the impact of opening the market to other operators.

But the rest of your reasoning makes sense, particularly with regards to the appstore battle at stake.