Well said. Competition is good for Apple. People forget that these are "preferences" not a religion or a lifestyle.
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Apple Reportedly Retakes U.S. Smartphone Sales Lead from Android on iPhone 5 Strength
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Well said. Competition is good for Apple. People forget that these are "preferences" not a religion or a lifestyle.
As someone who has used both. I like both, but prefer the Android. The samsung galaxy 3 for 96 cents was the icing on the cake.
So how many focus groups have to conducted to come up with such a "all inclusive" statement?
When you say "a lot" that implies more than 50%... so I'm just wondering if I can see the actual results from the survey you conducted...?
It really depends on the type of apps. The one I'm working on took me an hour to support retina4. And if apple went with larger, my autosize masks would do the job. Maybe a few missing masks here and there, since I'm alone with no reviewer and tired most of the time (overworked with two young kids).
And that's true on Android too: if you have good layouts, they will scale to whatever sizes.
Games or anything with openGL, that's a different thing, though, AFAIK (never did openGL)
I hate when people say buy a tablet. What a stupid thing to say. Tablets only work at 10 inch or bigger. Try making a phone call on a tablet. (And no skype is not an alternative.) You cant have a 10 inch phone.
That said I like my iPhone 5 screen size. Sure I wish it was a bit bigger but I wouldnt changes phones because of it.
Not where I am!
+1 - This, past few weeks I've come across more iPhone 5's then ever before!
As a business user my main uses on a mobile device are talking and sending emails etc.
The vast majority wouldn't care what size their screen is IMO.
people who buy the iPhone don't want a smartphone, they want an iPhone. people who want a smartphone buy an android.
If you can read the answer is already there, I said I'm sure its only a few. Want me to repeat that or did you read it this time?
Yup. Apple is definitely planning on that. I prefer the size of the iPhone 5, but not everyone does. Apple knows that.
The SDK for iOS 6 allows for multi-screen sizes and auto-layouts (similar to what Android has with its scaling). At the WWDC this year Apple flat out said, "Do NOT assume that our screen sizes will be standard anymore. Adjust your apps to be flexible and do NOT hard-code pixels."
Which means that all this forum chatter about how the screen size of Android is too big, Apple is just right, etc will become real silly as apps and screen sizes start to fragment more on iOS. Which isn't a bad thing as long as developers are given the tools they need to succeed and Apple is far better at that than Android.
Makes sense. After the huge 4 quarter apple had. Remains to see if android will recover.
They have lowered the price of the sgIII since they can't go head to head with the 199 cost.
They have lowered the price of the sgIII since they can't go head to head with the 199 cost.
And what about companies that buy them for the salesforce and middle management? Surely they are not concerned with such vanities.
It's rather silly to suggest an iPhone is less of a smartphone than Android. iPhone does just as much, if not more, than Android because of it's larger, more useful, app library. Most consumer companies develop iOS apps before Android, IF they develop an Android app.
MS is doing more that just trying. In many ways they have out done android.
If they get their marketing in order and get more product out they will become a big player.
Very impressive considering Android sales include a bunch of cheap, data-less Android 2.3 "smart"phones that are rather used as dumbphones and don't even compete with the iPhone.
I have to agree with that. The new MS phone are really impressive. There might be a consumer confidence issue to deal with though. I hope they stay in the smartphone game though, because they really are incredible devices today.
just this summer the smartphone usage hit 50% of the US population. every day the mirroring effect you see will become closer to exact. if not disrupted, eventually they will stay constant as two parallel lines.
Are the phones that you refer to even reflected in these statistics? I mean if they are "data-less" phones as you say, then they are not part of this demographic. Right?
Maybe. Maybe not. Could be too late for them. A lot of consumers and businesses alike have been with iOS or Android for sometime now. Consumers have collected a library of apps; business have developed custom apps for employees.
Just like when Apple was touting Mac ease of use superiority in the 90s, but came up very short as consumers and companies stuck with Windows because change is hard AND expensive, likely same out come here. It's not just a matter of marketing. People are becoming set in their ways and the only thing that overcomes that is when the product they use fails them in some way. But Android and iOS satisfaction among respective users is very high right now.
I'm a huge apple supporter but iOS is now fragmented.
They should of made the iPhone screen proportionally larger
They should of made the iPhone screen proportionally larger
That's the thing though, the people who are getting the free androids aren't really smartphone people. They're using them as feature phones and wouldn't benefit from the features of an iPhone. Some poop stain at the VZW store conned my grandmother into getting an android phone when all she wanted was a freking phone, she now has trouble using it for the her purposes because at its heart, it just isn't a very good phone.
While its true there is a certain latitude for Android apps to scale if you want then to look good across a wide range of devices you really have to do some work there for each screen size you want to tailor for, this is why so many Android apps look kind of sparse on bigger phones like the Note or cramped on the smaller ones. iOS wasn't designed to scale apps in that way because the screen sizes were controlled so your going to be left with more work for iOS.
Its the bigger apps like games or professionally produced stuff with lots of graphics that are the problem. Text based stuff with a few widgets are pretty trivial to update as you say.
You seem to be reading the graph wrong. This is sales share of smartphones for the quarter. If one company gains a greater share of all sales, the others have to have a lesser share. It does not necessarily mean anyone is 'switching'.