Are you both willing to take bets that apples market share will be surpassed by android in the next quarter?
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Apple Sneaks by Android in Fourth Quarter U.S. Smartphone Sales
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Are you both willing to take bets that apples market share will be surpassed by android in the next quarter?
In the word of LTD "iCal'd"
Perhaps you missed Google's conference call. They are currently failing on all cinders. The question is not, will Apple beat Google next quarter, the question is, will there be a Google to beat?
The very fact that Apple was able to surpass Android, with barely three models of phones, all under the same roof, running an unlicensed OS, is impressive enough.
Android achieving market share on a ****-ton of devices, ranging from the decent to the astonishingly bad, is about as impressive as Gary Busey's career. Google/Android needs mountains of smartphones to compete with Apple's paltry two or three. One sells on sheer volume. The other sells on sheer quality.
'Couldn't care less', not 'could care less'. Try saying 'could care less' out loud and realise how silly it sounds.
Probably not, however, one or two more quarters like the last one and they will no longer be counted as players. Big Bob's Used Tacos may very well remain in business today. That does not make them a threat to Chipotle.
baffles me how some people think that if Apple had as many models as, lets say HTC has, they would be selling just as many of each as the current ones do individually
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Having multiple price points in the US was something that Apple's competition had been doing all along. Clearly following their lead made sense when Apple wanted to increase sales... just as it it also helped to finally sell the phone on more carriers.
However, anyone on this forum could've told them those two common techniques would help sales
Yes it's cheaper to make just three models, but that does not address as much of the market as does having even more variations.
People used to think that Apple only needed one model. Then they had two, now they have three. It's a good bet that in order to sell in more world markets, they will come out with even more models.
LOL there it is. The usual android fanatic response: "It's a new OS, and therefore all these ridiculous bugs are expected. It's ok, we can void our warranties and fix it ourselves! It's all about choice!! I can choose to have a crappy phone if I wanted!!!"
LOL, you forgot "If apple sold 6000 different types of phones, they'd never put up these numbers".
Who cares? What's funny is before this report, marketshare was the most important metric to the androids, and now when iPhone has the higher marketshare in the 4Q, the excuses are flowing. Is marketshare important or not?
Easy, buddy. Maybe you should read what I wrote. Here it is:
voonyx said:
You notice how I said "in this quarter"? If they outsold all of Android in the US in this quarter, they have the higher marketshare "in this quarter"...get it? Stop being so emotional, bro.
Yeah, we all know that android phones are all over $500 and not given away like red headed stepchildren...
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Only he said nothing even remotely like that. He didn't say anything about Android being a new OS. He didn't say anything about having to fix it himself. Or about choice. Or about a crappy or not crappy phone.
It's impossible to take you seriously when you resort to a straw man argument style. If you're going to try and slam the original poster - you should at least quote him accurately.
I have no doubt Android will continue to reign as the King of Malware. I am not hating on Android just stating facts.
Well what do we have here? People realizing that they don't want a phone that is the "King Of Malware!"
Corporations love iOS more than BlackBerry OS; Android seen as a security risk
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Corp...ry-OS-Android-seen-as-a-security-risk_id26042
Report: Android Is The King Of Malware!
http://www.thetelecomblog.com/2011/08/25/report-android-is-the-king-of-malware/
Is Android becoming the Windows of mobile malware?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/android/is-android-a-dream-platform-for-malware/
In typical fashion, you go to the deflection hand book. I asked you a simple question. All I needed was a simple answer.
Are you willing to go on record and say that android will NOT surpass apple iphone market share next quarter?
Out of curiosity - do you have any other links or comments besides the malware one? it's quite old by now. You pull it out of your back pocket in just about every thread it seems.
What is your point of continuing to post about android malware? with the same links and same empty rhetoric?
How can they not?
You'd have to be real stupid to screw up a horizontal business model. It's built for market share, the lazy-man's way. That's really all it is.
The point is it doesn't matter lol. If a company that doesn't flood the market with hundreds of phones a quarter can still beat someone in marketshare, that's a testament to them not the flooding company.
I can't comprehend why people hang on marketshare so much. Apple outsold all of android combined in the 4Q and now marketshare is not that big a deal to the same ones who were boasting about it before?
Corporations love iOS more than BlackBerry OS; Android seen as a security risk
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 19:25, by Alan F.
You were saying?
You can't comprehend something so simple. Here's the situation. If you are pro-Apple and Apple doesn't have marketshare - it's not important. If you are pro-Apple and Apple does have marketshare it's important.
Similarly - if you're pro-Android and you have marketshare - it's important. If you're Pro-Android and you don't have marketshare it's not important.
Ahh, thanks so that is a hidden "yes" they will pass apple next quarter.
I don't need extra commentary about which business model is the best. What your response and others in this thread tells me is that you are really grasping at straws when a holiday pop which pushes the market share .2%(within margin of error I might add) above android get the types of cheers I have seen in this thread.
Very shortsighted.
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Corporations love iOS more than BlackBerry OS; Android seen as a security risk
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 19:25, by Alan F.
You were saying?
Reading comprehension is not your strong suit I presume? He is saying your posting on the same "Android Malware King" is getting old.
Reading comprehension is not your strong suit I presume? He is saying your posting on the same "Android Malware King" is getting old.
LOL!
Uhhh... tell me what's new about Android then?
*crickets*
BTW - Grammar is not your strong suit it would seem. Try "you're" (see your quote). LOL again!
No, it *is* important. Because Google and their OEMs don't operate on high margins. Apple hogs most of the industry profits. The only thing sustaining horizontal business models is the ability to push volume at the cost of all other considerations.
Corporations love iOS more than BlackBerry OS; Android seen as a security risk
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 19:25, by Alan F.
You were saying?
I noticed you passed over the post below. It seems to be because it destroys you bashing and Android hate. But never mind little facts getting in the way of spreading FUD and bashing.