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I think the majority of people have iphones now

bruceleroy

bruceleroy

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With the price drop in the 4 and the release of the 4s it seems everyone i have seen in the past week pull out a cell phone has pulled out an iphone. Has anyone else noticed this? I seriously don't think i've seen anyone else with another smartphone for the last week or so.
 
bruceleroy said:
With the price drop in the 4 and the release of the 4s it seems everyone i have seen in the past week pull out a cell phone has pulled out an iphone. Has anyone else noticed this? I seriously don't think i've seen anyone else with another smartphone for the last week or so.
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I think you're seeing what you want to see
 
bruceleroy said:
With the price drop in the 4 and the release of the 4s it seems everyone i have seen in the past week pull out a cell phone has pulled out an iphone. Has anyone else noticed this? I seriously don't think i've seen anyone else with another smartphone for the last week or so.
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Maybe you're just hanging out with a better crowd then you used to :D
 
bruceleroy said:
With the price drop in the 4 and the release of the 4s it seems everyone i have seen in the past week pull out a cell phone has pulled out an iphone. Has anyone else noticed this? I seriously don't think i've seen anyone else with another smartphone for the last week or so.
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Yeah, iPhone has become too ubiquitous now. Maybe that's why more and more people are switching to Android (tons of different phones).
 
The amount of people with iPhones and smartphones is rising every day.

But actually "most people" don't even have a cell phone. "most people" don't have a game console. "most people" don't even have a cable TV.

Of the cell phone owning population in the USA? I'd be surprised if more than 1 in 5 were iPhones.
 
sakau2007 said:
The amount of people with iPhones and smartphones is rising every day.

But actually "most people" don't even have a cell phone. "most people" don't have a game console. "most people" don't even have a cable TV.

Of the cell phone owning population in the USA? I'd be surprised if more than 1 in 5 were iPhones.
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Agreed!!!!
 
samcraig said:
I think you're seeing what you want to see
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+1 Agreed.

I know Apple users like to toot the Apple horn, but to suggest that the majority (51% or more) of the world uses an iPhone is a ridiculous assumption. There is no way 4 billion people use an iPhone.
 
This was as of April 28, 2011.

"Nokia topped the list with 108.5 million shipments, 29.2 percent market share, but only 0.6 percent growth. Samsung was second with 70 million shipments, 18.8 percent market share and 8.9 percent growth.

LG grabbed the third spot with 24.5 million shipments, 6.6 percent market share, and -9.6 percent growth. Apple is fourth and ZTE rounded out the list with 15.1 million shipments, 4.1 percent market share and 45.2 percent growth."

The 4s will definitely increase Apple's market share for the 4th quarter, but they still fall pretty far behind the overall market.
 
Im out alot and over the past couple of days ive seen people recording videos at concerts, at the bar, picking my son up from school, and at the barbershop all using iphone's. The only people i really see using android phones are younger most adults i see have an iphone.
 
bruceleroy said:
Im out alot and over the past couple of days ive seen people recording videos at concerts, at the bar, picking my son up from school, and at the barbershop all using iphone's. The only people i really see using android phones are younger most adults i see have an iphone.
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You wouldn't know that based on some of the post I've read.
 
The majority of people would suggest 3.50000001 billion humans have an iPhone 4.

Do you really think thats the case?

Perspective... no app for that.
 
I think the reason that iPhones are seen more often (i.e. not the majority, but the most often spotted) is that they're much more useful, do-it-all devices than other phones and so spend more time out of the pocket. That's excluding comparable Android phones, of course.

I'm a student at Warwick University in the UK, however, and I mostly see BlackBerrys here, then followed by iPhones.
 
sakau2007 said:
The amount of people with iPhones and smartphones is rising every day.

But actually "most people" don't even have a cell phone. "most people" don't have a game console. "most people" don't even have a cable TV.

Of the cell phone owning population in the USA? I'd be surprised if more than 1 in 5 were iPhones.
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Actually in the us, there are now more wireless lines than people. Even if a lot of these lines are for iPads and data cards, I think it's safe to say that in the U.S. most people have cell phones.
 
Fernandez21 said:
Actually in the us, there are now more wireless lines than people. Even if a lot of these lines are for iPads and data cards, I think it's safe to say that in the U.S. most people have cell phones.
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You clearly didn't understand what he was saying.
 
Ugh. I wish that were the case within my circle of friends and family. Each and every one of my close friends has a ******* Android. I respect their individuality and personal decision-making but it still drives me nuts. I've played with all of their phones and I cannot, for the love of me, figure out WTF it is they see in them, but whatever. Plus it's also annoying that when there's stuff like Siri, FaceTime, and Airplay that I'd like to compare with them, it's just not possible because of the environment they've chosen for themselves.
 
Caliber26 said:
Ugh. I wish that were the case within my circle of friends and family. Each and every one of my close friends has a ******* Android. I respect their individuality and personal decision-making but it still drives me nuts. I've played with all of their phones and I cannot, for the love of me, figure out WTF it is they see in them, but whatever. Plus it's also annoying that when there's stuff like Siri, FaceTime, and Airplay that I'd like to compare with them, it's just not possible because of the environment they've chosen for themselves.
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I don't want to compare anything with anyone, but it is annoying that features like iMessage and Facetime are largely useless to me, because my friends (and in particular my GF) mostly don't use iPhones.... I had Bump on my iPhone for a while, and then it was like, I never use this app, ahh well. :(
 
everyone has an iphone, that's why you have to get a CASE that stands out!

element case + lucky lab decals = iphone awesomeness
 
mkrishnan said:
I don't want to compare anything with anyone, but it is annoying that features like iMessage and Facetime are largely useless to me, because my friends (and in particular my GF) mostly don't use iPhones.... I had Bump on my iPhone for a while, and then it was like, I never use this app, ahh well. :(
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That's basically what I really meant to say. I guess I can always come here and compare my experience with everyone else in these forums. It's the compatibility and interaction that's crippled when you're on a platform different from everyone else's. I get so jealous when I read of people going to their friends' and family's houses and are able to AirPlay pictures or videos to those people's Apple TVs. Ha! I don't think any of my friends or family members even know what an Apple TV is, let alone own one.
 
PerplexShyt said:
everyone has an iphone, that's why you have to get a CASE that stands out!

element case + lucky lab decals = iphone awesomeness
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This case will definitely help you stand out



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I attend college as well and I see way more Blackberry's and Android phones than Iphones. If I see a person with an Iphone I am very shocked, because it's so rare to see.

Family wise it's just my brother, his wife, my cousin and my nephew who have Iphones and since I still had a 3GS when they got a 4 we couldn't utilize facetime, hopefully now I can use it.

As for my job I'm the only one with an Iphone and everyone else has either Boost, Cricket, and some have a T-Mobile, and a couple have Androids and they seem to think I have such an expensive phone.

I guess in a way I do but I don't see it like that. :confused:
 
sakau2007 said:
The amount of people with iPhones and smartphones is rising every day.

But actually "most people" don't even have a cell phone. "most people" don't have a game console. "most people" don't even have a cable TV.

Of the cell phone owning population in the USA? I'd be surprised if more than 1 in 5 were iPhones.
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"most people" is not the techie, cutting-edge crowd.

There's a lot of people like us in the world, but we're not "most people".
 
It depends on where you live.

In Boston / Cambridge area, I would see iPhone everywhere. It seemed that 90% or more of the phones people were using were iPhones.

Part of this might be because there were so many things to do with an iPhone, so people had them out in the coffee shops and on the Red Line etc. (You only pull a RAZR flip phone out of your pocket to make a call... for instance.)

In Hawaii on the Big Island, it seems that maybe 20% of phones are iPhones. There are a lot more Android phones and "social" phones with keypads. I saw more in Honolulu, but there is a lot of tourism there.
 
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