Lol, put the moto. G (budget phone), against the 5s (current flagship), and bar camera stacks up very Well indeed.. Your knowledge.of the smartphone market is so poor it's laughable..
It's about syncing, not backup. If you add a song to your Windows PC, it won't show up on an Android phone. If you add a song to your Android phone, it will exist on your Windows PC, but only as part of a disk image that nothing will access.
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Yeah, you might be right about the music players and tablets (if you exclude "tablet PCs"), but I doubt Apple ever led in smartphone market share. Those existed and were actually widely used before Apple made them.
"What ruined Apple was not growth....They made outlandish profits for about four years. What this cost them was their future. What they should have been doing is making rational profits and going for market share.
- Steve Jobs
We'll see if history repeats itself.
10 years from now $100 smartphones might (no guarantee since new technologies come up that will only be available for high-end gear) be qualitatively closer to $600 smartphones. But there will still be hundreds of millions of customers willing to pay the higher price for what they consider "the best"; more than enough for Apple to make their $billions of profit each month.
Around 1984, if you'll count it, they had the most popular PC with a GUI.
If you think the Moto G is "just as good" as the iPhone 5s, then good for you. You get to save some money. But the simple fact is that millions of people disagree with you.Are we going round on circles, or.just denying the truth here?.. 10.years?.. How about this.year.. The 135 pound quad core retina display 4.5in moto. G, only a 5 mp. Camera and unapologetically plastic, is stunning at that price point.. It makes every other phone on the market seem well.over priced...Anyone.thinking paying more is some way of.guaranteeing more quality,.more performance, more luxury etc.. Is just kidding themselves, and is using "a badge" to make.up for low self esteem.
Huawei ... like some drunk dude trying to spell Hawaii? Never heard of them.
I wouldn't trust IDCs predictions as far as I could throw them. AppleInsider posted an article detailing how they purposefully miscounted shipped devices to make their clients look good at the expense of their competition.
Huawei ... like some drunk dude trying to spell Hawaii?
Never heard of them.
So maybe when the market grows and all the sales go to cheaper models, Samsung isn't "better", just cheaper.
So Apple remains, still sweeping up most of the profits.
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In a world where the largets market share is still "Other," there is plenty of room for everyone to play in.
Do you even know the last time Apple was on top of world marketshare numbers?
The answer is never.
I personally think its not long until people step back and see how expensive the apple iphone is, and the will to pay that is going to wane.
Apple shipped 35.1 million iPhones during the quarter, up from 31.2 million during Q2 2013, for a share of 11.9 percent, a slight drop from its 13 percent share in the year-ago quarter.
You bring up an interesting question. Sales going to cheaper models. Are they really, in the sense that the number of iPhones are dropping (because folks are ditching their iPhones). OR is it that folks that might not have been inclined to get a smart phone cause they didn't see the point and were fine with their old flippers were lured by super cheap Samsungs. Thus increasing the total number of smart phones and lowering Apple's percent but their sales are actually the same.
Another example is the iPod, which continues to hover around 70% share of a dying market. Tim Cook commented sometime this past year that their goal is to make the best product they can. Sometimes they get dominant market share (iPod & iPad), sometimes they don't (Mac & iPhone).When the iPad launched. For basically that whole first year they had something like 90% of the tablet market.
They made/make fake Samsung phones, fake iPhones, fake Cisco routers, etc. Their Wikipedia page has a section on their stolen IP.
To me, market share only makes sense when you hone the "market" in question down to a very specific class of products. Premium smart phones, for example. Including the iPhone or higher-end phones from Samsung in the same market with a bunch of cheap knock-offs and crap phones cranked out only to flood the store shelves is meaningless.
Sometimes they get dominant market share (iPod & iPad), sometimes they don't (Mac & iPhone).