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Android Outpaces iPhone in Share of New U.S. Smartphone Customers for First Half of 2010
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Haha Android will always win until the iphone comes to Verizon. It is obvious that verizon is enough to keep people from flocking to the iphone. Walled garden indeed.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Please change your name to "full of fail." Lets break it down in elementry school terms.
Company A sells 3 different kinds of doughnuts in 3 different stores.
Company B sells 1 kind of doughnut in 1 store.
Who do you think will have the larger market share?
Probably about twice the number of people who will want to keep their Android phone. Remember, more iPhone users say they want to stick with their phone than Android. When (not if) Apple decides to move the iPhone to other networks, Apple retention numbers will get even better.
I enjoy these debates -- it's an unlikely marriage of open source nerds & teenagers who need a phone that gets free texting / calls to their "in network" buddies.
It'll be fun when everyone can own an iPhone. For all the success of the Android, there's absolutely no buzz attached to the brand with normal people -- especially when compared to the iPhone.
It'll be fun when everyone can own an iPhone. For all the success of the Android, there's absolutely no buzz attached to the brand with normal people -- especially when compared to the iPhone.
What I want to see are the numbers broken down by carriers, across the globe. I bet the iPhone wins out in every carrier they are on.
People can't just jump ship whenever they feel like to get whatever phone they want. (unless they like paying ETF's)
People can't just jump ship whenever they feel like to get whatever phone they want. (unless they like paying ETF's)
99% of consumers never cared about open/closed platforms. It's all about user-experience and whoever provides the best wins!
It was obvious this would happen.
I myself, prefer having one phone released per/year. Rather than 10's if not 100's of phones to pick from.
I myself, prefer having one phone released per/year. Rather than 10's if not 100's of phones to pick from.
Exactly my point too. Company B also sells another kind of doughnut that they can't include in the report but they should since it is also a mobile device running the same iOS. We can't blame them, otherwise they would have no jobs otherwise.
Exactly. Kinda stupid. "Our 25 phones can outsell your 1!"
Not to mention the "Buy a Droid, get one free" deals.
Indeed! Just look at how gaming on the PC has exploded over the last 5 years thanks to the infinite variety of PC hardware available and the open marketplace, while the "Company B" consoles like the PS3, XBox 360, and Wii have suffered.
Mine's the one with the Krispy Kreme plain glazed doughnut in the pocket.
The Android fanboys would want you to believe that their thing is the best one ever. They dont even know that NO android running phone gives you 100% access to hardware. And yet the fanboys claim the opposite while in truth Android is as much limited as the iOS. Truth hurts indeed.
Besides now we could add all of the iPod touches and iPads. Then it would be a fair comparison.
Some people can't fathom why anyone would want a physical keyboard, because touchscreen is just so kewl man.
Haha! My sentiments exactly. I know exactly one person who has ever owned one at any point--and he now has an iPhone. Probably some isolated markets fully saturated with them, though.
Much more rare, though, would be Windows CE 2.0 and 2.11. Anyone remember those in the HPC form factor? I still have some old HP 620LXs and Jornada 690s that I just love. Probably the last products from MS + manufacturing friends that, to this day, make me kind of excited to use. I mean seriously... Lightweight, reasonably capable Windows, primarily embedded, and with no significant virus issues (even though they're now all but useless unless you're doing NaNoWriMo or something... Yay 60MHz). /off topic nostalgia for mobile Windows
That's easy to answer...
The company that makes the best donuts will have the most sales, and the store(s) selling the poorer donuts will only sell to those customers who would buy anything they sold no matter how flawed the quality.
The company that makes the best donuts will have the most sales, and the store(s) selling the poorer donuts will only sell to those customers who would buy anything they sold no matter how flawed the quality.