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Android Dominates Nearly 80% of Smartphone Market, iOS Drops to 13% Share
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Considering Apple has just what, 20 max individual handsets currently on sale, compared to about 1,000 different Android handsets, I'd say that market share is actually pretty impressive.
Break it down to market share per handset and not platform and nodoubt Apple will be be half the top 10.
Break it down to market share per handset and not platform and nodoubt Apple will be be half the top 10.
Who friggin cares who has what share. Doesn't affect my opinion of what phone/os I'm going to prefer.
What about the percentage of profits in the mobile market? Isn't that what's really important? Who wants to break even or lose money? These market share numbers are almost useless. iOS is still the place to be.
Math?
Look at the difference in shipments between quarters. Look at Apple's pure growth in shipments. Divide the second number by the first.
Customer satisfaction was recently higher with some of the Galaxy phones, so it's not as unilateral as it might seem. Market share is still a multiplicative factor in profits.
I think it has more to do with Nokia finally making quality phones again and desirable ones at that.
I was part of that. I've had an iPhone since the day it first came out, every model. I got so bored with it I sold it an got an HTC One. Once the iPhone 6 comes out I might go back, but we'll see about that. This isn't bashing Apple at all, it was just what I did.
Yes, Apple should be worried because of the .000001% of people who bounce between phones and OS's because they're 'bored'.
It's kind of weird... the majority of people I see at work have an Android while the majority of strangers I see outside of work have an iPhone.
I live in the city and work just outside the city while most of the people I work with live way outside the city. I feel like all the country bumpkins are slowly getting on the smartphone bandwagon with an Android while the majority of affluent city folk are tried and true iPhone users.
I live in the city and work just outside the city while most of the people I work with live way outside the city. I feel like all the country bumpkins are slowly getting on the smartphone bandwagon with an Android while the majority of affluent city folk are tried and true iPhone users.
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So let me get this right, Android pulls ahead in market share and apple is behind. How many phones have android on them that you can go out and buy today? Compared to that how many phones are apple phones you can buy today? I'm confused cause this really isn't news its comparing apples to oranges. Why wouldn't you compare the iPhone 5 to the New Galaxy, and the 4s to the old galaxy or whatever android phone is of that generation? Saying android is beating apple when there are a hundred plus android types of phones out there to the what 3 or 4 iPhones is ridiculous. Its like comparing Apple computers to Windows/Dos based computers back in the day or even still. They make their own hardware and put there own operating system on it and they have managed all this time to be around because they don't go for the entire market they go for a portion of it. Seems odd to compare, is all I'm saying.
So let me get this right, Android pulls ahead in market share and apple is behind. How many phones have android on them that you can go out and buy today? Compared to that how many phones are apple phones you can buy today? I'm confused cause this really isn't news its comparing apples to oranges. Why wouldn't you compare the iPhone 5 to the New Galaxy, and the 4s to the old galaxy or whatever android phone is of that generation? Saying android is beating apple when there are a hundred plus android types of phones out there to the what 3 or 4 iPhones is ridiculous. Its like comparing Apple computers to Windows/Dos based computers back in the day or even still. They make their own hardware and put there own operating system on it and they have managed all this time to be around because they don't go for the entire market they go for a portion of it. Seems odd to compare, is all I'm saying.
True. All the iPhones might be sitting in the hundreds of Apple Stores where all their customers are 14-year-olds using the Macs to update their Facebook status.
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Apple's phone sales are growing, year after year.
Apple's market share in the phone market is growing, year after year.
Apple's market share in the high-end market is doing fine as well.
Cheap feature phones are being replaced by cheap Android phones. That does affect the numbers that Apple haters love; it doesn't affect Apple or the iPhone.
Apple's market share in the phone market is growing, year after year.
Apple's market share in the high-end market is doing fine as well.
Cheap feature phones are being replaced by cheap Android phones. That does affect the numbers that Apple haters love; it doesn't affect Apple or the iPhone.
Do you want to make money? That should answer your question. One OS does that, the other doesn't do anything besides the top 1% of developers for it.