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Android Tops 50% Share of Smartphone Sales, But Apple Still Dominating Profits
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Even Apple :
http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-pho...WKwQRxPN9zvJH1RsQwQnhpQFnQwL9M1BC!-1782455344
Orange in the UK has been offering iPhone 4 Free on contract for quite a while. Much better than BOGO if you ask me, most people wouldn't know what to do with 2 phones.
Carriers give away free phones- they even give away free iPhones on contract! As most people know free is not really free since the customer ends up paying by the time the contract ends.
I have a macbook pro, windows 7 / Arch Linux Desktop PC, and an Android phone. I prefer Android ( I know amazing right?). While some of the apps on iOS are still better than android, that is quickly changing. I find the Android UI to be much more usable and customizable then iOS, and I am excited about Ice Cream Sandwich.
Eventually many developers will drop iOS development and move exclusively to Android, just like they did with Windows.
This isn't debatable, it's common sense. If it keeps going this way, I suspect Android will have 75-80% of the market. Apple will lead in profits for awhile because Fanboys will buy iPhones regardless if popular software titles are available (Just like the Mac, remember AutoCad was just recently available again, but Mac Fanboys were always trying to tell you that "Uncle Joe's Cad" was "just as good".
No it wasn't, and the majority of the population knows the difference.
There's next to no LTE-coverage in Europe either.
Yeah - you really are ahead of the news, aren't you?
Map of LTE-coverage in Germany
So if this means "next to no" - well I guess we live in different categories ;-)
yeppers.
i wonder what the next quarter holds for apple if they dont get the battery issues fixed. there is no way after a week of owning the 4s.... you can still talk highly of it. two weeks and people should be saying.... buy a droid. one must take the entire world into consideration... where siri is useless on top of the battery issues.
He is talking about manufacturers giving away phones, perhaps he thinks that when a carrier gives you a "free" phone, the manufactures is not paid
The two ecosystems are very different, especially when it comes to developers who actually want to make money.
Apple does not have to beat Androids numbers. Android is split between dozens of different phone manufactures. In the end, iPhones still outsell any one phone manufacture.
I don't know where fanboys get this notion. No one is "giving away" anything. Do you not think that the manufactures get paid for "FREE" Phones or "BYGO" offers. The carrier simply subsidizes the price of the phone.. DAH!
Gee, I bet you think Apple is practically giving away the 3GS huh??
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What are you talking about?????????
Yet they continue to infiltrate this website and try their hardest to convince us Window PC's and Android are the best.
i understand, i used to be blind like you. go pick up a gs2 and play with it for a bit and then say that.
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bottom line is... after it is all said and done. apple does in fact bring in the cheddar. phone for phone doesnt matter in my opinion anymore, although i think your spot on.
The *real* news here isn't that a universally-licensed OS is gaining share (especially when it's free.) No ****. You'd have to be really stupid to mess that gig up. It's almost a default route to majority share, provided you start early enough and push enough volume at all levels.
The real news here is that a year later and *still* no one cares about WP7. And Nokia is in a do-or-die position. Unless they want to keep selling Symbian-based junkphones while Apple and Google move the market forward, but even that (Symbian) platform is eroding rapidly.
The real news here is that a year later and *still* no one cares about WP7. And Nokia is in a do-or-die position. Unless they want to keep selling Symbian-based junkphones while Apple and Google move the market forward, but even that (Symbian) platform is eroding rapidly.
How so?
Can you please list these dozens of different manufacturers. There must be many that I've never heard of.
Lots of crap to sift through:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_devices#Other_manufacturers
I have. I'm doing some Android development, I run Linux (and OSX and Winders©), I've been in the tech sector for 25+ years. At the end of the day, I'm still choosing an iPhone over a SGS II (I even currently own a Captivate/SGS).
It's not blind brand loyalty, but a well thought out consideration after weighing the options
It's kind of a bummer, since I think WP7 is pretty slick. It has a consistent design through the OS, it's fast, there's a decent amount of apps out (at least all the "usual suspects"), and it plays really nice in a Windows environment.
Honestly, after my 2 years of Android exposure, if I was offered an Android phone vs. W7, I'd probably opt for the latter.
Well... there was a study done earlier in the year that showed that developers made more money from iOS than Android apps. Not sure where the article is, but it's out there.
I think what he meant was there's dozens (around 70) different phones with Android OS on it.
My bottom line is... who cares? Buy what you like and enjoy. For me, the iPhone and Apple do just fine and I have no reason to look at any other phone. Android, MS, or otherwise.
I personally like the "iHome Phone" listed under "Other devices". They must be asking for a visit from Apple legal?
I personally like the "iHome Phone" listed under "Other devices". They must be asking for a visit from Apple legal?
That Gulu and Partap, they're always up to mischief.