re: ALL FACTS ARE GOOD.
You just spent a lot of time and presented many opinion pieces as facts. For example:
"Cost of development for Android, for those wishing to address the "full and larger market" is much higher than for iOS"
This is complete misinformation. I develop for both iOS and Android. If you said this a couple years ago, sure. But not today. Making an iOS app to work on all the different iDevice screens takes a lot more work than doing the same on Android because the Android API was designed to support multiple screen resolutions and aspect ratios from the ground up, vs the afterthought hacks in iOS. And if you are developing games and use unity3d, developing for iOS and Android takes exactly the same amount of time.
But there are some real facts that you are ignoring.
Android vs iOS is not Samsung vs Apple. Yes, Samsung is the most successful Android phone maker, but there are hundreds of others.
It's not all about smartphones, either. You can put Android on anything. TVs. Game consoles. Cars. Fridges. Watches. Glasses. And the best thing? Google doesn't have to do all the work. They don't have to develop a game console. Any other company can.
What Google did with Android is similar to what MS did with Windows: it can work on anything. Except Google took it to the next level.