Per capita the US is both Google's and Apple's largest market and, therefore, exceedingly meanimgful.
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Per capita the US is both Google's and Apple's largest market and, therefore, exceedingly meanimgful.
Nothing new, IBM just mathematically concluded what we all knew: android users are poor.
It's just the way it is.
Doesn't matter the MSRP or what, poor people can still afford a top of the range smartphone, for example, in my country, there are poor people that still buy Mercedes and book travels to some paridisiac place, and do expensive weddings and, of course, buy expensive phones (here the iPhone is more expensive a bit contact free, but much more expensive on contract).
But one thing is certain, they want the status, but they want that to guarantee an important aspect: quantity.
And since the iPhone is very small compared to other phones, doesn't appeal as much to poor people.
It's just the way it is.
Doesn't matter the MSRP or what, poor people can still afford a top of the range smartphone, for example, in my country, there are poor people that still buy Mercedes and book travels to some paridisiac place, and do expensive weddings and, of course, buy expensive phones (here the iPhone is more expensive a bit contact free, but much more expensive on contract).
But one thing is certain, they want the status, but they want that to guarantee an important aspect: quantity.
And since the iPhone is very small compared to other phones, doesn't appeal as much to poor people.
Shareholders care. Also, it's kinda annoying when your friends don't use the same thing that you use. It's still a PITA trying to do a simple audio chat with someone using Windows... I might even just write my own program in C to do it.
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Per capita measurements are meaningless.
Perception bias; "annoying giant android phone".
You see them because you are looking for them. Hence, why anecdotal evidence is often extrapolated by the user to an incorrect conclusion. The statistics are about online purchases, and iDevices have larger online purchases, and there are a lot of iDevices in use in the U.S.
Don't believe your lying eyes.
Example:
I can't believe how many Pri I see on the road!
It's my perception bias in action as Pri have a definitive shape, and I'm looking for them.
(Pri is plural of Prius)
No!
You don't even have the rest the fool article, just read the Title and you'll get it.
"Pri" is not the plural of "Prius", not even in Latin.
But what you said is very accurate. It seems like Priuses are everywhere here, but it's just because my eyes get so sore just from looking at one that they stand out more. In reality there are few.
No point trying to reason with the 'it's all about developing countries' church of marketshare people. They know very we'll they are dead wrong, but it's the only lie they can tell that their followers will believe. Meanwhile, real businesses run on profit, which for phones is something only found in the first world.
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This is why I don't get the scare mongering in the press. In the UK, products like Huddl have been a runnaway succes, apparently beating iOS with ease, but how many owners of these devices have given Google Play their credit card details? I'm guessing most of those who do pay for anything will have opted for a gift card.
That's not to dis all the Android owners out there (I'm one of them - I use both iOS and Android), as I'm sure that at the high end (i.e. Galaxy Tab 10 ballpark), owners are more likely to buy additional software and services. At the low (and landfill) end, I suspect Google relies on monetizing its users indirectly.
That's not to dis all the Android owners out there (I'm one of them - I use both iOS and Android), as I'm sure that at the high end (i.e. Galaxy Tab 10 ballpark), owners are more likely to buy additional software and services. At the low (and landfill) end, I suspect Google relies on monetizing its users indirectly.
Twenty-three percent of all online sales is huge number, no matter how you cut it. Good for Apple.
This is somewhat obvious: the iPad is a force to be reckoned with, and combined with the iPhone, they have mobile computing on lockdown.
However, the stat also implies that everyone else actually used a computer, which is by far the more robust shopping experience when you want to really get down to it.
For someone like me, these stats are meaningless. I shop where I can, when I can. I have a Windows 7 laptop at work, and shopped there when on break, etc. I may buy something on the go with my Galaxy S4 (just switched
), but then I get home and either use the Mac or iPad (if the kids are using the house Macs).
But they appear to be clear indicators of how much penetration Apple has with their iOS devices, and they can spin it to their advantage (and rightly so) to promote their business and keep devs on the platform.
This is somewhat obvious: the iPad is a force to be reckoned with, and combined with the iPhone, they have mobile computing on lockdown.
However, the stat also implies that everyone else actually used a computer, which is by far the more robust shopping experience when you want to really get down to it.
For someone like me, these stats are meaningless. I shop where I can, when I can. I have a Windows 7 laptop at work, and shopped there when on break, etc. I may buy something on the go with my Galaxy S4 (just switched
), but then I get home and either use the Mac or iPad (if the kids are using the house Macs).But they appear to be clear indicators of how much penetration Apple has with their iOS devices, and they can spin it to their advantage (and rightly so) to promote their business and keep devs on the platform.
I only use my HTC Sensation XL for phone calls, finding out where I am, plotting where I want to go, and keeping an eye on storm activity.
The first two apps were pre-installed, and needed no activation to work. The latter was downloaded from BOM for free, and also needed no activation.
Therefore, HTC and Google do not know I exist, and neither do the app makers.
Just the way I like it.
The first two apps were pre-installed, and needed no activation to work. The latter was downloaded from BOM for free, and also needed no activation.
Therefore, HTC and Google do not know I exist, and neither do the app makers.
Just the way I like it.
Yeah, but the US are just ONE nation of what makes the so-called "first world". In another first world country and leading economic nation, my home country Germany, Android smartphones had a market share of 78% in the last quarter. And it's not that we cannot afford to buy iPhones - it's just that a lot of people rather spend the same money on HTC Ones, LG G2s, Samsung Galaxy Notes and Galaxy S3s and S4s instead. Most young folks over here also no longer think that Apple is cool - the trend is changing.
The lie - or fairy tale - that you guys believe is that the American market is representative for the rest of the world. It is not and almost never has been. If it were, German kitchen appliances would also still be stuck in the 1960s like American kitchen appliances, but they are not. If it were, we would all be driving big, gasoline burning cars, but we are not. We would have adopted the NTSC standard with inferior picture quality instead of the PAL standard. People would be crazy for American football and baseball instead of soccer. Yeah, sure, we love American movies, Donald Duck and our portion of junk food like everybody else, but obviously there are many things where we have VERY different preferences.
I was in 5 Star Hotel for a couple days recently, and I found the opposite true. iPhones and ipads everywhere in the resto.. bar.. lobby, hardly any android.
im lazy.. so I just copy.. edit.. sorry for infringement.
Some people just have to "win"
People who's weiners are smaller than their screen size, evidently. Some people just have to feel like they are winning to make their life worth living.
People who's weiners are smaller than their screen size, evidently. Some people just have to feel like they are winning to make their life worth living.
I kinda agree with your second post. I may be a little bias but everywhere I look all I see are apple devices.
You are correct. It is officially "Prii". Should have confirmed that before post.
http://pressroom.toyota.com/releases/toyota-announces-the-plural-of-prius.htm
My Mother bought our family an iPad Air. It was our first ever iPad, despite me using Apple computers near-exclusively since the late 90s.
Also noticed a couple of parents I know getting iPads for kids that got Kindle Fires and low-end Androids a year or two ago. So for some at least the iPad still has the 'real McCoy' image.
Also noticed a couple of parents I know getting iPads for kids that got Kindle Fires and low-end Androids a year or two ago. So for some at least the iPad still has the 'real McCoy' image.
It's actually Prii...
Toyota actually took a vote in 2011 and determined the plural of Prius is Prii.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/21/toyota-decrees-the-plural-of-prius-is-prii-your-latin-teach/
Toyota actually took a vote in 2011 and determined the plural of Prius is Prii.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/21/toyota-decrees-the-plural-of-prius-is-prii-your-latin-teach/
These statistics are about percentage of internet traffic, not percentage of phones. Anecdotally I am seeing more Android phones too, especially oversized phablets, but most of the people I see with them are just using them for talk & text like they did with their feature phones. The typical Android user seems to not really need, want, understand, or even use a smart phone. For the most part they have an Android phablet simply because that is what the phone store salesman pushed on them. Theses statistics from IBM indicate that is reality, not just a perception.
ah yes, some dude's (your) observation on the interwebs is more scientific and reliable than a computing company's study. yep. anecdotes for the win!
here, let me do one -- i see waaay (three A's) more iPhones than androids. i win!!
