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iPhone and iPad Dominate Mobile Web Share Throughout Holidays
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Just look at the third party support for iOS it completely obliterates any google product.
They make money when people CLICKTHROUGH ads.
If you use a standalone e-mail client and avoid Gmail as a webmail service, you are not seeing any ads. Worse is if you use IMAP from a different e-mail service provider, like Zoho or GMX. Google despises this because then they can't even index your message content.
Also, browser ad blockers prevent Google from serving up ads. I am a longtime proponent of blocking ads on web browsers (way back to the Internet Junkbuster days). Why? Internet security:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20016517-83.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20040367-245.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20000898-245.html
My reasoning is unassailable and I don't have to apologize to anyone for using ad blockers to protect myself on the Internet.
Today, I use AdBlock on my Mac's Safari, Chrome, and Firefox as well as the Ghostery script blocker. On my iOS devices, I tend to use the Atomic or Ghostery web browsers.
DuckDuckGo gets the majority of my initial search inquiries.
I never use webmail, only view my mail with a standalone e-mail client (no ads).
I do use Google Voice, but stricter telecommunication privacy laws prevents Google from indexing voice messages or recording conversations realtime so they really don't get anything from me there.
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Well to be fair the chart shows "Google", which can only mean Nexus even though it also cites "Samsung" which makes the Nexus 10. Everyone here is talking about "Android" tablets, but that could fall in any category not Windows or iOS. It could even be Amazon, which is even further segregated.
I also say Nexus because personally, I have yet to meet anyone other than myself who has a tablet that's Android that's not a Nexus (I also have a Xoom, wife has a 1st gen N7, I have a N10 - good Lord I have issues...). Just trying to narrow down my point to one device. It's easy to bash the "$100 tablet" and clump all Android tablet usability under that header.
Again market share .... useless.
Wp8 here mostly is just one device: Nokia 520 sold for 130€ (iPhone starts at 629€).
Yes, they are gaining market share .... and most of those doesn't have a data plan
Yeah, same here with old iPhones. My students predominantly use iPhone 4s with prepaid plans without data.
Apart from that, marketshare isn't useless, as it's the only thing that matters to hardware manufacturers such as Apple and to app developers. Apple couldn't care less how much you browse the web with your iPad.
.... or any other country where Android statistics look a little better than those
Which is basically everywhere else!
That might have been true at one point, but by the large, most worthwhile apps are available cross platform these days. Very rarely do I see myself unable to download an app/game/magazine that's available in the app store that isn't on Google Play.
In fact, Twitter 3rd party clients seem to do quite well on Android and have a far better offering than iOS; apps that I use more than anything else. So for me, I found having to use the official Twitter app on iOS frustrating and much preferred the apps I use on Android.
bollocks. You see ads on every website you visit. Sure, you can use an ad-blocker. How many people do you think use one of those on their iOS devices? Perhaps 0.1%.
I think its fair to say that a lot of people buy a cheap Android tablet because theyre weirdly expecting it to work like far more expensive devices, and then when it doesnt live up to expectations go back to browsing the web on their phone, computer, or whatever else they were using before they had the tablet. Sure there are people out there buying $100 dollar tablets as their only connection to the web, but I would submit that most people would opt for a $100 dollar netbook instead, generating numbers that are not reflected in these statistics.
Basically all Im saying is that the UX of the Nexus tablets is hardly representative of the Android tablet ecosystem as a whole. By and large, Android tablets fall far short of that standard.
Netbooks? They're not even being sold anymore.
I agree - there are lots of crappy Android tablets around and I generally prefer my iPad Air over any Android tablet on the market at the moment. But people don't buy Android tablets because they think they're better than the iPad. They buy them because they can't afford an iPad.
I still have to see any iPhone user without a data plan ....
Btw Apple couldn't care less about market share: they are looking at revenues.
There isn't any single flagship model in the market that sells comparably with iPhone 5S .... not a single one.
Apple couldn't care less if Nokia sold a lot of 520 in Italy, since their profits about iPhone 5c/5s are waaaay higher.
.... or any other country where Android statistics look a little better than those
No. Its just that many people (including me) do not live in the US and would like our statistics taken into account for once for a clearer view of what is really going on, be it a loss on Apple's behalf or not.
Their profits would be higher on the 5C - that's purely hypothetical, considering the fact that they're not selling. I've yet to see an iPhone 5C in the wild here, TBH.
If you sell 10 million devices with a net margin of 50$, you're still making a bigger profit than when you sell 1 million devices with a net margin of 200$ - so yes, market share does make a difference, no matter what you've talked yourself into believing.
What a bad statement. I find the browser selection to be more robust on Android vs. Apple with tons of selection. I set the Chrome Beta browser dpi to 320, force tablet mode and can fit the desktop version of websites on screen without side scrolling. And browsers on Android can use whatever rendering engine they please. No silly rules in order for browsers to get approved.
well, let's be fair: this is an American website and they're primarily catering to the American customer. That's why the numbers published here (as silly as they may be in this case) only talk about the American market. Also, this is a Mac enthusiast site so they're not going to be talking about the fact that iOS is rapidly becoming insignificant in the world's largest markets (China, the EU, Russia etc.). This isn't a problem as long as the readers here also visit other websites where they may actually get some factual information. Unfortunately, some people here don't seem to do that. Or they're simply still caught in Job's reality distortion field. If you head over to the WPCentral.com forums, you'll see the same thing happening with WP8 users. Same goes for Androidcentral or Google+. Arguments on (somewhat) neutral websites such as Engadget or theverge.com aren't nearly as heated as here.
I really can't blame macrumors, though - they're doing a great job targeting their articles at their core audience. My problem is just that while I use a ton of Apple products and believe that many of them are great, unmatched even, I don't like all Apple products equally. I have an iPhone 5S because I need it for work - but I absolutely hate iOS 7. It's buggy, it's laggy (for the first time ever on an iPhone) and I find it butt ugly. I use a Lumia 1520 as my primary device. Unfortunately, people are going to hate you here if you say that publicly. But I guess I can live with that.
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Chromebooks cost drastically more than 100$. They're laptop replacements, not tablet replacements. And as such, they're starting to matter:
http://bgr.com/2013/07/10/google-chromebook-market-share-2013/
especially as they're starting to eat into Macbook sales big time.
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True. My sister had an android tablet last Christmas or one before. It was actually decent spec and only like £70 I may try to get it strictly for work that I dont care if gets smashed haha.
However it was slow and nothing was optimised and due to the old version of android none of the apps she liked worked properly. So this Christmas she got an iPad 2.... It runs perfect and the apps a re smooth and screen responsive. She is very happy and when she isnt using it.... I am =)
Maybe you should try Chrome on KitKat or Jelly Bean? And do the scrolling test side by side with the 5S, same website, same wifi connection. You might be surprised which one scrolls faster.
I suppose so. Not sure what accessories I am missing out on. I have a decent case, I can sync my PS3 controller if I *HAVE* to use a joystick for games. No real need for a dock of any sort for speakers (I Chromecast to my home theatre for audio).