Huh?
So how does this happen without the unit sales you so casually dismiss? More contracts imply more iPhones sold. Less iPhones means less contracts.
Yep. Samsung is really sucking air right now. 30 days from the poor house I'd say.
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iPhone 5 Launch Props Up Apple's Share of Smartphone Market as Samsung Keeps Rolling
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LOL @ iOS being dated. It's only dated to young people who constantly need something changed for its own sake -- usually to justify their ADD. Once you are in the tech field long enough you find out that most people hate change and constancy with consistency will always outperform the flashy thing that keeps changing in the long run.
This is an old, obsolete argument. Apple currently makes 32 different iPhone models; two colors, 3 different carriers, 3 different sizes (for iPhone 5), across many different price points (including free). That gives people plenty of choices.
Of course android outpaces iOS in M/S, there's about 9 bazillion different models of phone (smart and not so smart) on the platform!
IT's not change for changes sake. It's for a bit of individuality, it's human nature to be an individual.
Sucker logic.
Samsung and other OEMs keep recreating new hardware because their users can't get the latest release of the OS. They'd rather force them into buying brand new hardware. Android is being released at such a pace the OEMs and carriers can't keep up, so they ditch their current customers and just move on to new devices. And maybe, eventually put out an update... MAYBE.
I know a ton of people still using the 3GS as their phone. Why? Because over the passed 3.5 years, Apple has offered 3 OS upgrades; 3.0 - > 4.0 -> 5.0-> 6.0. Most people don't care about new hardware, they just want their phone to continue working.
People who do upgrade to new hardware may not be interested in how it looks but other aspects: better screen, faster performance, etc.
When I upgrade ANY product or device, it's not because of how it looks, but rather what it's capable of doing better than the current device I have.
I see what you're saying. I myself have an iPhone but to blindly consider Apple superior over everything else is ignorance. Like you said it's preference. I'm sure there are many people out there that feel the same way about Apple. In this case they are doing well, and there's no harm in admitting it. Instead of saying "Yeah right" or whatever, because that is denial regardless of if it feels cheap or not.
That was in 2007/2008, Apple's new model is getting paid $650+ for every phone, REGARDLESS of who pays it. Could be the carrier via subsidy or could be the customer.
If you keep your iPhone 1 year, 2 years, or 3 years, Apple gets paid the same.
I was talking about new phones each year. and yes there's colour and size choices (as there are for many smartphones), but it is still essentially one phone.
The number of choices of alternative handsets is growing at a much higher rate than the choices when it comes to iPhones.
Sammy is still kicking arse.
The ability to run any app I chose without being "blessed" by a higher authority.
Oh... and a MicroSD slot.
I'd be interested to know exactly which apps you need to run that are not on iOS. Please be specific.
That's surprising, I spend a decent bit of time in Birmingham (and around the country) on business, and it's not something I've noticed really varying by location significantly. I'll bow to your greater insight though since you live there.
Look. Both companies make great products. The thing that is crazy is the people claiming SG3 is cheap because it has plastic parts. Do you people realize how easy it is to scratch the aluminum on the iphone? Build quality is WAY overhyped here. Plastic =/= bad quality just as aluminum =/= amazing quality.
Different people want different products.
Samsung has JB, which IS the best OS as of right now. It's also fully customizable.
iPhone has the clean and simple aspect. Easy to use.
Different people want different products.
Samsung has JB, which IS the best OS as of right now. It's also fully customizable.
iPhone has the clean and simple aspect. Easy to use.
Probably not really. In much the same way that Windows PC forums aren't inundated with Mac users spouting off, and yet, in reverse.......
Apple and its users have always and probably will always draw a lot of flak from "others" for whatever reason.
Tell me. What has been so special about apples updates? a nice new panoramic camera? New maps? The updates have been lame. 2 years ago I wouldn't touch Android with a 10 foot barge pole. Sure their updates haven't been as smooth but they have been worthwhile.
In my observation, it's human nature to conform. That's why there are things like peer pressure, people flocking to Apple or Samsung or something else, and people who keep up with the Jonses...
And the whole concept of individuality is VERY much dictated by your culture and even then the tendency is to conform overall.
Wow. Do we really need to make a list of leading companies that went belly-up due to exactly that point of view?
Well according to all the drop test videos I have seen, the samsung phones crack FIRST or stop working first. So, I'll take a cracked phone over a non functioning plastic phone any day
# of models is irrelevant. Point is Android has a better adoption rate than iOS. Apple has models across all price points from free to massively expensive. But for whatever reason more people are choosing Android. I'm not saying this as a Fandroid, but as an iOS fan that reluctantly recognizes Apple needs to revisit iOS or it's going to get smashed like it did with the Mac OS.
Sure. As far as market share for all phones 'classified' as smart phones.
I believe it is any phone with an OS of some sort. (iOS, android, BlackBerry OS,Bada, Windows Phone, webOS, and Maemo, MeeGo etc..).
I would be interested in the comparison of high end phones between the companies.
You will probably find that most of these people on here are long time Apple users annoyed at the lack of change from Apple.
No. It's obvious that self-loathing people buy Samsung products out of some unrealistic hatred for all things Apple and can only feel better about themselves when they say something negative about Apple products and people who use them ... isn't that what those Samsung commercials were all about? Trying to cast themselves as elitists so no one mistakes them for the tools that they are.