I have been around the OS license games and it is amazing how much performance is compromised for some licensee that gets cheap on their hardware build. The Samsung Galaxy line is an example of that.
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iOS and Android Capture Combined 98.4% Share of Smartphone Market
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I have been around the OS license games and it is amazing how much performance is compromised for some licensee that gets cheap on their hardware build. The Samsung Galaxy line is an example of that.
Different PR channels and perspectives. In the fanboy universe of MacRumors, it was like seeing the constellations of the sky change. To the mass market, it was most of a "Apple continues its innovation."
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You beat me to that line.
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Put your money where your mouth is and short AAPL.
Not necessarily a bad thing for Apple. As far as I'm aware, they still have the majority of the profitable market share. I can imagine they are also far less attractive to criminals, having as they do a quarter the market share of Android, especially with Android being a fragmented ecosystem being potentially more susceptible to security threats.
Units have a wide disparity but make that same comparison in revenue or profit. Even if we're using units as a measure of value of the ecosystem switch that comparison to revenue of the corresponding app stores. Sure, raw units do matter and Android is way ahead on that metric but there certainly are two major big players in the market and Apple leads in some important ways too.
edit: and marketshare shrink doesn't mean that total install base has fallen for Apple either. I didn't do the math but it may be that both have grown but Android grew faster in total units. Outside of first world markets, especially with recent news like $7 and $4 smart phones in India, I'd expect units shipped to favor Android globally. That's not a market that Apple has expressed interest in though.
The bold is all that needs to be said to end this argument.
It doesn't matter that iOS only has 17% of market share. Android is so fragmented that no one piece of it really has more than 17% anyway. Even within versions of lollipop things get so fractured.
Consumers care about the profit Apple makes?! And anyway, the article isn't about profit, it's about units sold and market share.
Couldn't have said it better:
R.I.P on one corporation.
In other news : The world is a mean place!
You snooze you lose!
Unless they have a number of profit generating patents they are toast.
To make fun of something inept is humor, sometimes to deal with pain.
In a perfect world Blackberry was a pioneer and should not have totally lost it, when, where , why etc. is unimportant right now.
Apple gets ripped here plenty.
As I said: The world is a mean place!
So much ingorance in so many posts... we really do encourage it here at MacRumors dont we.
First: Blackberry listed here is reference to the BlackBerry OS10. BB10, the QNX based platform that they pushed.
That is dead. There's no market share. The Last BB10 device rolled off shelves with the BB10 Base passport in mid 2015.
Blackberry has announced that there will be no new BB10 devices, and BB10 will be legacy now and only receive security
Blackberry, the COMPANY on the other hand, is now an Android manufacturer, and all their new phones will be included in the Android platform numbers. So far, their first, and most recent handset, the BlackBerry Priv, is an Android device. With it's release, Blackberry has reported an increase of Revenues from the previous year. Those 700,000ish numbers of Priv's that were sold (As of dec 2015), are included in Android Numbers, NOT, Blackberry numbers.
Question will be now, Can blackberry build back off this momentum as an Android device manufacturer and start releasing more products? The Priv itself is still sort of a Niche product, being a large, keyboard phone.
First: Blackberry listed here is reference to the BlackBerry OS10. BB10, the QNX based platform that they pushed.
That is dead. There's no market share. The Last BB10 device rolled off shelves with the BB10 Base passport in mid 2015.
Blackberry has announced that there will be no new BB10 devices, and BB10 will be legacy now and only receive security
Blackberry, the COMPANY on the other hand, is now an Android manufacturer, and all their new phones will be included in the Android platform numbers. So far, their first, and most recent handset, the BlackBerry Priv, is an Android device. With it's release, Blackberry has reported an increase of Revenues from the previous year. Those 700,000ish numbers of Priv's that were sold (As of dec 2015), are included in Android Numbers, NOT, Blackberry numbers.
Question will be now, Can blackberry build back off this momentum as an Android device manufacturer and start releasing more products? The Priv itself is still sort of a Niche product, being a large, keyboard phone.
Why are people so fixated on market share. If the race is who can sell the most units, yes android is way ahead. If the race is who can make the most profit the Android is left in the dust.
Is McDonalds the best restaurant in the world? I'm sure <insert high quality, classy restaurant here> doesn't feel bad because more people are willing to eat off the dollar menu, when they are making plenty of profit off their delicious food.
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Uhm beccasse it's a well established fact the the VAST majority of profit goes to Apple. The reason that Android has so much market share is that it is on cheap phones with barely any margin.
edit:http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-share-of-smartphone-industrys-profits-soars-to-92-1436727458
92% according to WSJ.
A lot of my coworkers rely on the tactile keyboard. Personally, I love tactile as its accurate but hate it as it takes up so much screen real estate OR it adds so much bulk in a slider factor.
Blackberry will do fine if they offer two options; one for mass market, one for niche. The phone's actually got good reviews, it can only get better from here on out with Android.
Ha ha. Don't worry. Mindless dedication is just as prolific in the UK too. If not worse. And I was stuck in similar to the Galaxy I own now. It's a good phone. It's a good system. But even though I switched to Samsung since 2010 In a very reluctant fashion I did so with eyes open after realising Apple isn't what it was when FaceTime. MagMounts. OSX Tiger. IMessage. Unibody Chassis. And a lot more were the game changers. And that's not to even begin on the amazing and intuitive IOS ... But those days are over. And stylli, daft connectors and wrist weights isn't why I moved to Apple many years ago.
But that doesn't mean I'm blind to going back if things change again. When Apple moved in...Microsoft had the monopoly. They got lazy. Innovations stopped. Apple did the innovating. Became the monopoly. Got lazy. Trouble is can Samsung pull something out the bag next week? Even after my new allegiance I'm not convinced.
Correct; and it Android can do your laundry today, iOS will be able to do it next year.
"Well established fact?" Show me then. You are in absolute denial if you think iOS profits more than Android.
The iPhone one is unique because last year's quarter was inflated due to low supply in the previous quarter.
I don't think the iPhone will be down year for year.
We'll have to agree to disagree. With the amount of press Jobs got both while he was alive and post mortem, the movies that have been made. The fact that he's often discussed as one of the greatest innovators of all time - his role, to me, hasn't been understated to the general public.
Macrumors users care about Apple's profit.
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I found the 6S to be more readily available than the 6 was after launch.
You're actually incorrect. This is very well documented. Android devices make very little money. Google makes almost no margin and Android hardware vendors make very slim margins. Apple actually makes more money than all Android hardware manufacturers put together.
Quick sources:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-share-of-smartphone-industrys-profits-soars-to-92-1436727458
http://bgr.com/2015/02/26/iphone-vs-android-profits-q4-2014/
http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/13/apple-smartphone-profit-share/
Apple sells 20% of phones and makes 92% of the entire industry's profits. The next highest profitable company is Samsung, who makes 15% of the industry's profits. The rest of the smartphone industry combined is a loss, which is why Apple and Samsung combined are over 100%.
Correct; and it Android can do your laundry today, iOS will be able to do it next year.
But only whites and colors. Darks and delicates will be added to the S model.
Snarky me wants to say that it's because Apple has been failing to obtain proper licensing for some of their tech and making a lot of money off of it in the meanwhile. We see some of that is catching up to them. Most of this comment is tongue-in-cheek...
I'm sure you feel the same about your power company, banks, cell provider, plumber, etc.
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That's a good point.