Err, you being an Apple user presumably, you realise that the lower marketshare higher profit comes by price-gouging people like you who have sufficient disposable income not to care about the higher cost of the iPhone.
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iOS and Android Combine for 96.3% Smartphone Market Share in Fourth Quarter
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Err, you being an Apple user presumably, you realise that the lower marketshare higher profit comes by price-gouging people like you who have sufficient disposable income not to care about the higher cost of the iPhone.
Why do you feel the windows phone platform isn't doing that well? That's what we use and have cancelled our home phone as well. We have the ATT Go plan and it's working out awesomely. Sooooooo much cheaper than the extremely expensive iphone and Samsung phones and the required overpriced plans they shove you on.
The windows phone is just as slick as any of the others IF you are using it just as a phone. That means texting and calling are your main uses. Apps wise, yeah,it's lacking which probably explains the market share problem.
Personally I hate using phones for games or browsing or anything else. Screens are way too small and useless, IMO. Oh well.
Because the latest version of it's mobile operating system is actually really good.
The other thing to remember is that prior to iDevices Apple's market share in the computing world was ~3%. So I guess you could have said the same thing about them back then.
While it is obvious to most that world wide Android is dominating sales,there are other interesting statistics to be drawn from the data.
As we are given data for both Q4 2014 and 2014 as a whole we can see compare. If phones were sold even throughout the year it would be 25% of sales per quarter. Q4 is always the best for the iPhone, as it is when a new model is released each year. Most people know that a new iPhones is coming near the end of the year every year.This year people knew that the new iPhone would have a new case (it was not an S year) and that there would be bigger screens. All three system sold more than 25% of their yearly sales in Q4.
iOS 39%
Android 27%
Win 31%
As we are given data for both Q4 2014 and 2014 as a whole we can see compare. If phones were sold even throughout the year it would be 25% of sales per quarter. Q4 is always the best for the iPhone, as it is when a new model is released each year. Most people know that a new iPhones is coming near the end of the year every year.This year people knew that the new iPhone would have a new case (it was not an S year) and that there would be bigger screens. All three system sold more than 25% of their yearly sales in Q4.
iOS 39%
Android 27%
Win 31%
Apple Watch is the reason why I don't want an iPhone. I hope Pebble hits it out the park and Android Wear comes to iOS. That Watch OS is a huge turn off and the starting price is ridiculous.
And I wish that Apple gave the regular 6 the optical image stabilization and 1080p display. For someone like me that wanted to get away from phablets they messed it up. I wanted a no compromise sub 5" phone.
Judging from Apple's "S" policy I will be sticking with Android until 2016 unless Apple shows me something off the charts this fall.
One last thing; don't gimp the iPad mini. That had to be the worst mistake Apple has made in over a year.
The iPhone 6 is selling in record numbers. It looks like the vast majority wanted a larger iPhone.
Crushing how?
I'm just trying to figure out the result of these "Android Dominates" headlines.
Android has had "the most market share" for 5 years... so no news there.
But that's really not surprising when you've got 60+ manufacturers who are now shipping a billion Android smartphones a year.
Meanwhile... Apple has NEVER had a lot of smartphone market share... yet they do just fine.
So again... what is Android crushing?
Apple only has one killer quarter each year and about this time is when sales start to taper off. But Android have multiple flagships hitting throughout the year. Just in the next few weeks you got Samsung and HTC releasing flagships followed by LG. And this is not including the Chinese flagships and budget models. And I'm only talking about the first half of the year.
So while Apple owns the 4th quarter everyone else owns the other 3.
To me it looks better if you spread out launches. I know the Apple Watch will do good because it's new but I wouldn't count on it on a yearly basis.
I would be happy if there is: upgradable gas, large screen gas?, high quality gas, gas ecosystems, but no, you can't use gas as an example.
Remember when Apple stated that they were going to install iWork apps on higher capacity iPhones from the factory?
My 64 GB + luckily didn't have any of those installed and I don't want them installed. I have an iPad that I have numbers installed on and that is good enough there. I guess Apple backed down on that decision.
Apple does not have to sell new iPhone every quarter, but they can increase sales of other products. There are Macs and soon Watch. Probably devote each category on one quarter?
I thought that the smaller iPhone 6 outsells the 6 plus by a good margin? Not even the Note series outsells the Galaxy S and the Note is always the better phone minus the size.
I bet money that people would have had second thoughts for the plus if the iPhone 6 had a 1080p display and optical stabilization. That would have been the ultimate phone for me.
Sorry, I misunderstood your post. You want the OIS in the 4.7" phone, you weren't asking for the 4" model. And the smaller phone does outsell the 6+. I wonder how much of it is due to price too, not just it being too big.
Maybe that's all the consumer should care about, but it's definitely not all the company or shareholders should care about.
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as an consumer, there's nothing more I want than for Apple to charge us more and more for every product they sold than anybody else out there. Heck, who cares if I personally pay more, as long as Apple gets it's profit up there....
waiiit a second!
Without the iPhone Apple would be done. It's like taking away Tom Brady or LeBron James from your team. You still have a team but we all know the outcome.
Sustainability means that both sides of the transaction are happy. If the customer isn't happy, he goes elsewhere. If the seller doesn't make a profit, he goes out of business. To borrow from your absurd example, if you landlord charged way too little... You would be happy, but not for very long. Because you would be looking for a new place to live once the bank repo's the property for nonpayment of the mortgage. If he charges way too much, he's happy, but again not for long. Because he'd have to try finding new renters after you move.
You can't act like you know what sustainability is if you don't even know that it requires both sides to be happy.
Am I the only one a little bit tired about this numbers ?
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For every iPhone you see, there are a dozen crappy cheap not-so-smartphones running Android.
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For every iPhone you see, there are a dozen crappy cheap not-so-smartphones running Android.
Yes, exactly. A lot has been written (by developers and others) that Android is a platform that is very hard to get money out its users. I won't bother to list any of the many reasons that have been given, because it will just incite craziness.
I think Apple as a company has always survived, despite low market share, because although their customer base was small, it was both very loyal and had money to spend.
How is it "gouging"? No one is forced to buy an iPhone. And it doesn't cost any more than comparable Android phones such as the Samsung Galaxy or Note, or HTC One M8.
Let's see if Windows 10 will change something. I think it's their last chance
You realise that price-gouging is impossible in a free market with an abundance of choices? People will pay whatever a product is worth to them. If Apple makes profits selling iPhones, that is because people value the product considerably more than it costs Apple to make it.