Samsung up 0.7 = "little gain"
Apple up 1.0 = "significant gain"
I mean, I prefer Apple over Samsung, but....REALLY?!
Apple up 1.0 = "significant gain"
I mean, I prefer Apple over Samsung, but....REALLY?!
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Apple Makes Gains in U.S. Smartphone Market Share as Launch of iPhone 6 Approaches
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Just the iWatch
Just the iWatch
macs4nw
macrumors 601
If, as speculated, a large number of 'must-have-a-large-screen' Android users purchase 5.5" iPhones, that will definitely be a huge boost for Apple.
Tim is a lot smarter than many give him credit for.
Smartphone marketshare is rather meaningless when it consists of mostly low-end, low-margin devices that more or less replace feature phones and dont get used much as a smartphone. It does little to attract most developers from releasing quality apps.
It counts for a lot more when it consists of high-end and high-margin devices like Apple does. iDevices higher usage metrics coupled with a higher marketshare just means more incentive for development on the iOS platform.
Zaft
macrumors 601
gotluck
macrumors 603
Man9z0r
macrumors regular
If being smart is just looking at the fact that there are very few android phones, or really other phones in general, that are less than 4 inches and realizing that, that is a wide open market that Apple is not in. Then man he must be a genius. I mean I could have never saw that.
dannyyankou
macrumors Pentium
Shanghaichica
macrumors G5
Not quite sure about making it equal, hope I'm pleasantly surprised in a few weeks. It does sound very promising though and I can't wait to try it out.
kdarling
Contributor
For the best comprehension, readers should note the above. This is not about current sales, but about total current users.
When the source is marked as being from MobiLens, it means it comes from comScore's own collection of 30,000+ long term volunteers who are supposed to be a representative group of users. They constantly report on what devices they use or stop using, how they use them, and so forth.
This is why these stats change more slowly than other brief snapshots of sales or browser stats. This data reflects a real life, fairly static group of people who have to deal with phone contracts, upgrade eligibility, family financials, and so forth.
Note that it includes users of both new and old model phones. In other words, if a lot of people are still in their two year contract using a year or two old phone, they increase the count for that maker. Or if a type of phone is more often sold or handed down, its number will increase accordingly.
Hmm. Got a link to any major analyst who says Apple is doomed?
I think it's more like they worry about carriers dropping subsidies and/or Apple having to lower their profit margin.
Not about Apple disappearing.
Well my post was mostly a joke, just based on what I read here, what seems like, 90% of the time.
In actuality I couldn't care less what anyone's market share was as in the end I am just going to buy the phone or product I like the most
Android's got double the market share of iOS, it's not gonna be "out the door" any time soon
Michael Scrip
macrumors G3
Market share is useful for something... I'm sure.
But don't forget... market share is simply a percentage of something a company has over a certain period of time.
In this case... it's Apple's percentage of all US smartphone subscribers between April and July.
Other charts show Apple's percentage of worldwide smartphone shipments compared to all worldwide smartphone shipments over an entire quarter. For instance: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1759607/
Useful data... sure... but it doesn't really mean much to the consumer.
bushido
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In Spain is like 6% or something like that I think 😀
and even those r probably stolen by drunk american tourists in their oversized button down shirts 😉
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Based on the number of people at work who are planning to switch from Android to iPhone, I think Apple will do quite well over the next year.
Yeah, and the numbers are even worse when you look at profit share. Apple and Samsung make all of the profit, every other cell phone maker loses money. Last numbers I saw was Apple making 70% of the profit and Samsung making about 30%.
eac25
macrumors regular
I haven't seen any "apple is doomed" predictions in a long time. Analysists seem to understand apple is about to rock the world with their upcoming products and this company isn't going down anytime soon.
Its like the Apple Vs. Microsoft war all over again.
Apple better step up its game. As long as it is lower than 50% it will always be the OS to get knocked off.
Apple better step up its game. As long as it is lower than 50% it will always be the OS to get knocked off.