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Appstore revenue importance is way way over-rated. All it shows is that it gives game developers an avenue to make money (since most of revenue came from games) and Apple to feed off this gravy train. Maybe kids/teenagers spent more money in Appstore but the number of affected users/buyers maybe numbered a few tens of million. Compared this to the hundreds and hundreds of million of users for "essential" free apps (e.g. google,fb,tw,whatsapp etc) which you never pay a single cent upfront. But the indirect revenue (gained by the companies that made these so-called free apps) is in the order of hundred of times more than Appstore revenue.

You got it all reversed. Appstore revenue (or other similar indicators) is never really compelling but market share is. There are so many indirect industry-wide benefits that market share gives which are not apparent. If you can't maintain market share only means you go into obscurity into the future. Once a upon a time a huge proportion of smartphone market share/profit was attributed to Nokia (using the Symbian platform). It all went downhill for Nokia when it lost its market share to Apple/Android over a period of time. Will iOS go the same way as Nokia (symbian)?

Yes.... it all went downhill for Nokia when people stopped buying Symbian phones and started buying other phones. When you aren't selling phones... that's when you get in trouble.

People ARE buying iPhones though. Apple is still the #2 smartphone manufacturer by volume. And they make a lot of money on every phone they sell.

The thing about market share is... it's a percentage. It's based on what everyone else is selling too.

But every company is responsible for themselves.

Over the Holiday quarter... Apple only had 18% market share... but they happened to sell 51 million smartphones. Their highest quarter ever.

The market share was calculated after the analysts tallied up everyone's phone sales. But Apple sales are theirs... and theirs alone.

What if someday Apple's smartphone sales "drop" to 12% market share... but they sell 60 million phones? That's entirely possible... and I don't think that will force the iPhone into obscurity.
 
Side comment: Sales numbers are not something that traditional Apple fans worry about. In fact, they used to take pride in being in the fewer number. This worry over numbers is something that newer iPhone fans seem to have drug in over the years.
You've nailed it.
Always a pleasure to read your posts ;)
 
Guess what, I have a Moto G, and the whole android experiance is a mess, the play store is a mess, the icons that change their place when you download a new one is killing me, the google now is activated constantly when you try to unlock the device, the music app is a ****, the camera is a ****, the back black panel alrdy is lossing its color after few weeks of use. In summery, there are tons of things I hate in this phone, so I dont agree that 1/3 of the price can give you the same experiance. For its price tag Moto G is a OK phone, for someone who dont care much it may be the perfect phone. KitKat is years behind iOS 7 and I use both OSs every single day for many hours so im talking about personal first hand experiance. In terms of overall design, materials and quality the iPhone superpass any other phone. Thats my opinion. You can have yours.

Comparing Moto G with the iPhone is like comparing Ford with Ferrari. Ford will always sell more cars than Ferrari no matter what but that doesnt make it better.
I also have a Moto G (well not really mine, but it sleeps under the same roof) and my personal iPhone and I think it's a pretty good phone even not considering it's price that results in several shortcuts (such as undoubtedly the weak camera).

Of course the iPhone materials are superior, materials cost money and miracles don't cost 200 euros.

But all round it's a very good phone with good hardware to run apps on, a quite good display (the front of any moderno touch OS) and it's based on clean Android. You clearly don't like Android. I like it. Not as much as iOS (that is why I use an iPhone, not the glass, aluminium and whatever Apple uses more) but I think it has evolved into a good OS, better that iOS sometimes, worse some other times.

I didn't say it gives the same experience as an iPhone, I said it gives a good smartphone experience which I really think it does. It is fast and snappy and at a price that allows you to replace it quickly if it becomes your desire.
 
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Yes.... it all went downhill for Nokia when people stopped buying Symbian phones and started buying other phones. When you aren't selling phones... that's when you get in trouble.

People ARE buying iPhones though. Apple is still the #2 smartphone manufacturer by volume. And they make a lot of money on every phone they sell.

The thing about market share is... it's a percentage. It's based on what everyone else is selling too.

But every company is responsible for themselves.

Over the Holiday quarter... Apple only had 18% market share... but they happened to sell 51 million smartphones. Their highest quarter ever.

The market share was calculated after the analysts tallied up everyone's phone sales. But Apple sales are theirs... and theirs alone.

What if someday Apple's smartphone sales "drop" to 12% market share... but they sell 60 million phones? That's entirely possible... and I don't think that will force the iPhone into obscurity.

Dropping market share in an expanding market maybe is not too much to worry about. But someday, smartphone market will be saturated and that day is coming soon. You may say if Apple maintain selling 150-200mil phones a year it is blue sky all the way. But what if a global recession/financial crisis occurs and market volume drops say 10-15%. Logic tells us Apple would take the greatest hit as it only sells high price phone. If just 5% (of the 10-15%) of the decline is attributed to Apple, we are talking something like 50-mil (assuming smartphone volume is close to 1billion) decline which would be like 20% decline for Apple. If the slowdown continues for a few more years...you do the maths. Also not forgetting China manufacturers are coming out with lots of phone with hugely better specs than Iphone at only 1/2 the price.
 
From MY techie point of view, Android is a much larger headache!

we're currently trying to deploy MDM. IOS has management built right in, I just need to send my users a .mobileConfig file and tell them to click "Install" That's it! Management done. Plus I can give specific instructions because all of the prompts look exactly the same on any IOS device(including ipads/ipod touces etc..)

on Android I need an app, because apparently android doesn't have any built in management like IOS. So I have to send my android users a link to the play store and tell them to download and install the app. (which they may have trouble doing because they aren't really technical, or may never have registered, etc... OR may not even have the play store and may have Amazon's market)

Then I have to tell them to click "back" on their device, which is again, a different location and icon depending on which device they have. so I can't give "Specific" instructions.

Then they have to click a registration URL to send an application intent to the app to register them to my companies MDM. and the Intents dont seem to work on every device, just most of them.

We tried to automate this, by having a hosted webpage that ran JavaScript and tried to open the intent URLs in the background, but many android devices do not support multitasking (or at least suspend the web browser's JavaScript engine when the store is open) though it did work great on the nexus devices. Tried to force the intent URL in a pop up. but that setting is a nightmare of differences between each device.

Also, assisting users with registering their phones with our exchange server is a NIGHTMARE on android.

On IOS i can publish ONE set of instructions that works for ALL devices (even older IOS versions, though the screens are a different color, the options are all the same)

It seems like nearly no two android devices have the same options menu to set-up email accounts. so we cannot possibly post any step-by-step instructions for our users; we have to refer them to support.

Then, we built internal websites for specific uses. These sites check out on HTML standards, they render fine in IE, Chrome, Safari, and on ALL IOS devices, and on most Android devices, however on some, (two Motorola's some older Samsungs, and the chrome browser on the nexus 7s) they do not render correctly (still works just ugly)

Then, even with the app on many (but, again not all) android devices the user has to open the app and authorize the app as an admin for our MDM to have certain features available.


Then some android devices don't even come close to following activesync policies, once again any IOS device newer than a 3gs does.

Then the keyboards!!! some of android's keyboards work very poorly, they don't "layer" properly over the webpage and cause any footer(static bottom) content to move above the keyboard and block usable parts of the screen! but only on some devices. Once again ALL IOS devices work fine (even old IOS versions) sow we have to remove footers for android deon....

You lost all credibility when you started dissing the back button on android devices.. it's thing that is most infuriating on ios. For something that's meant to be so intuitive it's redic. U open an app. Go into a menu. Right how do I go back one page.. there's a soft back button somewhere... It would be nice if it was in the same place..
The hard back button on most droid devices is a godsend.. it doesn't move, ever, and goes back one page... The end....
Everything else you wrote is just fluff now...
 
Dropping market share in an expanding market maybe is not too much to worry about. But someday, smartphone market will be saturated and that day is coming soon. You may say if Apple maintain selling 150-200mil phones a year it is blue sky all the way. But what if a global recession/financial crisis occurs and market volume drops say 10-15%. Logic tells us Apple would take the greatest hit as it only sells high price phone. If just 5% (of the 10-15%) of the decline is attributed to Apple, we are talking something like 50-mil (assuming smartphone volume is close to 1billion) decline which would be like 20% decline for Apple. If the slowdown continues for a few more years...you do the maths. Also not forgetting China manufacturers are coming out with lots of phone with hugely better specs than Iphone at only 1/2 the price.

Yeah... if there is a global crisis... Apple may take a big hit.

But Apple is also more prepared than a lot of other companies. They have plenty of cash reserves to weather the storm should the worst happen in the future.

However... there are companies today who barely make any money. Wouldn't they be in more trouble if there was a global meltdown?

Thank goodness there is no crisis today... but I feel like there are still some companies who need to rethink their operations.

Yes... there are a lot of phones with great specs that sell for half the price of the iPhone. But that's usually case with many of Apple's products. Apple has always been about selling unique solutions at a fairly high price. That's normal for Apple.

There is a lot of love for the Moto X/G in this thread... it's a great phone at a great price.

And yet... the ownership of Motorola has changed hands twice in less than 3 years. You gotta wonder if the cheap Chinese phone manufacturers will have any more success.

It's not just about selling a phone... it's also about staying in business.

I've heard that the only companies making any money in the smartphone market is Samsung and Apple.

So... what about the other 30 or 40 companies around the globe?
 
Sales numbers is what market share is all about. It's the sales over the last 3 months. They add them up and see which platform or companies have which percentages.

Market share is temporary, and it's affected greatly by new model timing.

It's useful to also look at current user share, which is overall ownership.

E.g. worldwide in all of 2013, the sales numbers were:

78% Android
16% iOS
_3% Windows
_2% Blackberry
_0% Symbian

But the smartphones in actual use were:

66% Android
21% iOS
_3% Windows
_4% Blackberry
_5% Symbian

Interesting!

If there are 20 companies selling Android phones... and one company selling iOS phones... yeah there will be some huge discrepancies.

Not necessarily. How many companies sell MPEG players? How many sell iPods? Which one is dominant?
 
so in short use it when it suits you and when it dosent there are all these caveats.

I guess you can look at it that way, but it seems needlessly cynical to me.

for me its even shorter either subscribe to this metric or not.

What question are you trying to answer by citing market share? What are you trying to prove?

Exactly.

Android has the most market share... but they don't enjoy any of the benefits that usually come with a platform having the most market share.

#winning

Yep.
 
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Yeah... if there is a global crisis... Apple may take a big hit.

But Apple is also more prepared than a lot of other companies. They have plenty of cash reserves to weather the storm should the worst happen in the future.

However... there are companies today who barely make any money. Wouldn't they be in more trouble if there was a global meltdown?

Thank goodness there is no crisis today... but I feel like there are still some companies who need to rethink their operations.

Yes... there are a lot of phones with great specs that sell for half the price of the iPhone. But that's usually case with many of Apple's products. Apple has always been about selling unique solutions at a fairly high price. That's normal for Apple.

There is a lot of love for the Moto X/G in this thread... it's a great phone at a great price.

And yet... the ownership of Motorola has changed hands twice in less than 3 years. You gotta wonder if the cheap Chinese phone manufacturers will have any more success.

It's not just about selling a phone... it's also about staying in business.

I've heard that the only companies making any money in the smartphone market is Samsung and Apple.

So... what about the other 30 or 40 companies around the globe?

Well if you look at figure released for Q1 2014, Apple lost 2.4% and Samsung 1.2% overall share which is the gain of Chinese manufacturers and LG with lenovo gaining 1% share and rest holding on to their market share. Don't underestimate these Chinese manufacturers.

Talking about profit share. It used to be 90% for Apple but now it is down to 55-60%. Larger market share drop compared to others and continuing drop in profit share, isn't this like a double whammy?
 
German consumers are cheap. It is sad but it is true. It is why Android here is so big here. Most people also do their shopping when there is a BIG SALE sign. Otherwise, not much. There is a big reason why all economies went down while the Germany didn't get affected. They are careful with money. :D
Some call it cheap, but I dare say it's reasonable.
As a german consumer:
I buy what I need when I need it,
I buy what I want, when I can afford it,
and I buy what I may like when it's on sale.
So what exactly is sad about not spending more then I earn on stuff that I don't need? Have you already forgotten that little thing called subprime crisis that went soooo well for the global economy?
 
I guess you can look at it that way, but it seems needlessly cynical to me.



What question are you trying to answer by citing market share? What are you trying to prove?

sorry are you asking me a question or "you" as in what purpose do marketshare stats serve?

since i follow apple more than other companies and have for long time i find their use of use of marketshare stats self serving and contradict their previous behavior. perhaps you can say the same about other companies but frankly im not bothered by them
 
sorry are you asking me a question or "you" as in what purpose do marketshare stats serve?

I'm just restating my point in a different way. Market share stats require context to be useful. Part of that context is what point you are trying to make or what question you are trying to answer when you cite market share.

since i follow apple more than other companies and have for long time i find their use of use of marketshare stats self serving and contradict their previous behavior. perhaps you can say the same about other companies but frankly im not bothered by them

Again, I find that to be cynical. Both on the level of being bothered that Apple marketing would choose metrics that put them in a good light and on the idea that it is contradictory for Apple to highlight market share growth but dismiss market share loss as less significant. As Michael Scrip pointed out (in a point that he stole from me :)), Apple still enjoys all the benefits of being the market share leader, making market share less significant for its competitors than for itself.
 
Timing is everything. If the firm published this last week prior to Apple's earnings release and conference call w/ Apple admission that iPhone non-U.S. sales were great it would have looked genius. Coming days after, not so much.
Well, the Info is available every month. For example I posted the Dec-Feb statistics in another thread which was based on an article from April 1st...so it's more the timing of macrumors or techcrunch that is a bit off :)
 
I'm just restating my point in a different way. Market share stats require context to be useful. Part of that context is what point you are trying to make or what question you are trying to answer when you cite market share.

of course context is needed but note i am talking about what apple does (reason for my first post which was a reply to rogifan) and not every possible condition thought up by people online. i dont recall apple ever showing a marketshare slide that had to be scaled down to fit all the asterisks.


Again, I find that to be cynical. Both on the level of being bothered that Apple marketing would choose metrics that put them in a good light and on the idea that it is contradictory for Apple to highlight market share growth but dismiss market share loss as less significant. As Michael Scrip pointed out (in a point that he stole from me :)), Apple still enjoys all the benefits of being the market share leader, making market share less significant for its competitors than for itself.

the stickler in me believes that with every condition added you are edging closer towards a manipulated data.

what are the standard benefits to being a marketshare leader (btw we are talking about a market that one could argue is not even 10 years old)?

back in the 90s there were some pretty good mac games (marathon, dark forces etc) but the marketshare was dreadful. in fact one could argue that in the last 10-15 years while some windows apps were missing the quality on the mac platform was almost always better.

when the iphone was ruling the market (even more so than today) nobody was saying apple is just one company competing against a whole platform. there was nobody saying that sales data should be segmented by some arbitrary standard of what is a high end model etc. its only when other companies started catching up that all these new conditions were thought of.

but for me the biggest irony is when people want to play it both ways ie saying apple/ios should not be compared directly to android yet when it comes to defragmentation then the its ideal to do ios vs android.
 
Yes, why not ... For someone not caring about performance, camera, network connection .... a Galaxy Ace could be as good as an iPhone 5C also :rolleyes:



Umm no. You keep forgetting the user here. If I am a normal person with no phone/specs/OS fetishes to speak of - I use the phone like a normal person. Calling, emailing, light browsing and email along with Facebook. Then I walk into a store and see a Galaxy Ace, a Moto G and the iPhone 5C. If I wanted to be on one of the T-Mobile's great plans for example which allows 1GB of fast data slowed to 3G after overage. This would really make a very normal / average phone buyer in any country.

Now I see the Ace - a bad 3.5" screen with bad resolution, running old OS with horrible UI mods and no chance in hell of an OS update. And the battery is pathetic. Now I check the Moto G - great looking screen, snappy, updated OS, great battery life, acceptable photo quality. I couldn't really care about where my first 1GB is coming over - HSPA+ or LTE - hardly matters. And now with the iPhone 5C - I am getting everything plus the better camera but lower battery life than the G - BUT I am paying $350 more for it! The 5C doesn't really offer me that much value for my money.

Now if Apple sold a cheaper $299 unlocked phone with a better camera and LTE - we would drop the 5C from comparison and use this one to compare against the G and conclude that yeah for a $100 more it's worth it to buy over the G for a normal person. But until that happens, for a normal person wanting to either go iOS or Android - 5C is the only iOS phone we can compare to. And just because Apple doesn't sell one at a lower price doesn't exempt them from comparison - they could pretty well sell one that kicks the Moto G's rear for a $100 more. But until then yeah the 5C is what we got.
 
the stickler in me believes that with every condition added you are edging closer towards a manipulated data.

Again, I'm not talking about conditions and caveats.

what are the standard benefits to being a marketshare leader (btw we are talking about a market that one could argue is not even 10 years old)?

Developer support, third-party integration, accessory support, profits, etc.

when the iphone was ruling the market (even more so than today) nobody was saying apple is just one company competing against a whole platform.

I agree with you that that's a silly argument. I have argued that forked versions of Android should not be counted as part of the Android platform.

there was nobody saying that sales data should be segmented by some arbitrary standard of what is a high end model etc. its only when other companies started catching up that all these new conditions were thought of.

But you are okay with the arbitrary standard of what is a smartphone? Why not look at the overall moible phone market? :)

but for me the biggest irony is when people want to play it both ways ie saying apple/ios should not be compared directly to android yet when it comes to defragmentation then the its ideal to do ios vs android.

Again, different contexts, different people, different arguments. Some people on this forum are absolutely hypocritical on both sides of this argument, but there is no need to dismiss an argument entirely because some people take it to irrational extremes.
 
Dropping market share in an expanding market maybe is not too much to worry about. But someday, smartphone market will be saturated and that day is coming soon. You may say if Apple maintain selling 150-200mil phones a year it is blue sky all the way. But what if a global recession/financial crisis occurs and market volume drops say 10-15%. Logic tells us Apple would take the greatest hit as it only sells high price phone. If just 5% (of the 10-15%) of the decline is attributed to Apple, we are talking something like 50-mil (assuming smartphone volume is close to 1billion) decline which would be like 20% decline for Apple. If the slowdown continues for a few more years...you do the maths. Also not forgetting China manufacturers are coming out with lots of phone with hugely better specs than Iphone at only 1/2 the price.

Logic doesn't necessarily dictate that. It's the people at the lower end of the income scale who get hit the hardest and the longest in recessions, a trend that has only become more pronounced with each successive downturn. The people at the top lose less and recover it faster. This is why luxury consumer discretionary goods are the first to see upturns in sales during economic recoveries.

This is just one of the problems of using market share to describe anything meaningful. Apple is targeting one pretty specific part of the market, the part that has the most discretionary income. Chasing market share would be a completely different strategy, one that could arguably expose them to even more risk for the above reason, and also because they'd be working at lower margins.
 
Guess what, I have a Moto G, and the whole android experiance is a mess, the play store is a mess, the icons that change their place when you download a new one is killing me, the google now is activated constantly when you try to unlock the device, the music app is a ****, the camera is a ****, the back black panel alrdy is lossing its color after few weeks of use. In summery, there are tons of things I hate in this phone, so I dont agree that 1/3 of the price can give you the same experiance. For its price tag Moto G is a OK phone, for someone who dont care much it may be the perfect phone. KitKat is years behind iOS 7 and I use both OSs every single day for many hours so im talking about personal first hand experiance. In terms of overall design, materials and quality the iPhone superpass any other phone. Thats my opinion. You can have yours.

Comparing Moto G with the iPhone is like comparing Ford with Ferrari. Ford will always sell more cars than Ferrari no matter what but that doesnt make it better.

Wow, biased much?.. kitkat is a gr8 fluid OS, even better with sense overlay.. the layout of the play store is so much easier to find stuff than the app store.. once again you are making sweeping allegations concerning every droid phone in existence when its obvious uve o my used budget ones... Hold and use a ONE m7 or m8, and you see that not all droids are created equally...
 
You lost all credibility when you started dissing the back button on android devices.. it's thing that is most infuriating on ios. For something that's meant to be so intuitive it's redic. U open an app. Go into a menu. Right how do I go back one page.. there's a soft back button somewhere... It would be nice if it was in the same place..
The hard back button on most droid devices is a godsend.. it doesn't move, ever, and goes back one page... The end....
Everything else you wrote is just fluff now...

Okay, first the idea of the back button is GREAT, what I DO have a problem with; is that the implementation is different on every different device. so I cannot write instructions that say "Click the leftmost button under the screen" I have to write: "Click Back" (I can't even say "Back Button", because it's not a "button" on every device) Then I get 15 calls from users saying "where is the back button" and I have to say:

"I don't know.... Somewhere, usually looks like a left arrow or sometimes a u-turn like symbol, or sometimes something else. It's usually under the screen, it may be an actual button, or might be on the screen, near the bottom, or may be on a "pop-up" bar on the screen. or may be somewhere else."


On IOS devices If i need someone to click the home button, well that's easy "Only button on the face of the phone, round, below the screen"


So please explain to me where is this "Fluff"

Oh and while you are at it PLEASE do me a huge favor and give me a set of simple step-by-step instructions to add a Exchange activesync email profile for android. But it must be correct FOR EVERY ANDROID DEVICE! I'm too stupid to get one written.

I don't need one for IOS because I wrote a set of instructions complete with screenshots in about 10 minutes, and it works for EVERY IOS DEVICE

Please let me know.

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btw: our corporate MDM deployment is no more complicated - point to a Playstore link -> install the app-> app configure all necessary settings no prompts necessary (except user id/password).

We are currently rolling out MDM from a little known company called CISCO, there Meraki product line, specifically.

On android, you NEED an app, so I can sent them a market:// link, unless they don't HAVE the Google play market. Yes, there are Android devices that have alternate markets.

Then, at least for the the Cisco product; the user needs to open the app and enter a network number, looks similar to a phone number; however we are dividing our users up into multiple "networks" depending on their business unit, so they would need the right number and to enter it correctly AND we don't want these network numbers "out there" with multiple people knowing them, because you cannot change them. The other option is to use Android Intents. So I can give them an intent URL link to automatically register them; but, once they install the app, they are STILL in the Play store; with a prompt to open the app; not to register, so they have to go back to their email and click another link. However I cannot give them any specific instructions on how to go back. some devices use a physical button some a soft button; etc; I cant even give them a reliable "ICON" to look for because different manufacturers use different icons. Then the "actions" menu is completely different on different devices, on specific example is; on the nexus models, you have to double click your intended action (go figure!)

On IOS, I literally send the users a FILE ( its a .mobileConfig file) in their email. they click the file and click "install" and DONE! the file contains all their setting AND their correct network number so I don't need to disseminate it! No app install needed, no app store, no Registration link. literally 2 steps.
 
Okay, first the idea of the back button is GREAT, what I DO have a problem with; is that the implementation is different on every different device. so I cannot write instructions that say "Click the leftmost button under the screen" I have to write: "Click Back" (I can't even say "Back Button", because it's not a "button" on every device) Then I get 15 calls from users saying "where is the back button" and I have to say:

That's an age old support problem that includes desktop/laptop users with multiple types of keyboards.

Just like the old joke about software with a prompt to "Press any key to continue", and all the calls from people asking where the key labeled "any" is.
 
That's an age old support problem that includes desktop/laptop users with multiple types of keyboards.

Just like the old joke about software with a prompt to "Press any key to continue", and all the calls from people asking where the key labeled "any" is.

I know LOL :D

I just like the fact that IOS is so standardized. But as a user i definitely don't hate android. I have a nexus 7 and 3 kindles, my wife was all android phones until this year.
 
I just like the fact that IOS is so standardized. But as a user i definitely don't hate android. I have a nexus 7 and 3 kindles, my wife was all android phones until this year.

I'm actually quite sympathetic with you, since we also have to support multiple Android device types. However, we figure it's stuff like this that keeps us employed as experts :)

Btw, we had something similar to your footer + keyboard problem, except that it was covering up a tall input field. So I told our guys to write a focus event handler and apply it to all the fields... which triggered a timeout (long enough to let the keyboard appear) to call another function that calculated if the field was visible above a certain percentage of the screen, and if not, to scroll it up to the top for best view. Umm.. I think they ended up using a resize event that got triggered on the devices with the funky keyboard instead of focus. Not sure.

Speaking of keyboards --- why the @#$% don't the iOS keyboard labels change case to match the shift key ?!!!! It's frustrating, not just to newbies to iOS devices, but often to oldtimers as well.

Regards.
 
You sure ?
You seem to be wrong , according to android developer board....

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html?utm_source=ausdroid.net

There is still 18% of users using Gingerbread ... Yes I'm speaking of the 2010 version 2.3
Do you know why ? Because there are tons of cheap droids with 2.3 on the market.

When talking about market trends, you always need to look forward, and way ahead, because that’s really the only thing that matters. (side note: Not as a lot of people tries to emphasize all the time, that how much you’ve earned before or are earning at present, which is totally meaningless.) Those 18% will soon (in 1-2 years) be replaced by old cheap Android 4 (or even 4.2) phones. By that time, the only real problems caused by the fragmentation, bad app compatibility, will be almost gone.

Sure, minor incompatibility issues will always exist, like what was in the Windows world, but those minor issues will no longer prevent normal users and developers from regarding the Android platform as one whole platform.
 
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