Apple Watch. Not sure if you consider the Watch an accessory because it needs the iPhone to complete it.
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iPhone Remained World's Most Popular Smartphone Last Quarter
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Apple Watch. Not sure if you consider the Watch an accessory because it needs the iPhone to complete it.
Thousands.
All kinds of accessories from high quality photographic gear to most of audio interfaces are exclusive to the iPhone/iPad.
There are simply too few of other phone models on the market to justify hardware developement costs for complex or exotic accessories; add that Android buyers do not remotely spend as much money in software and hardware as iOS users, for whatever reason you'd like to think of.
With an iPhone, you have everything available, which is the ecosystem advantage I spoke of.
All in all, Samsung sells the most if you added all their models together. Separating the product line into individual models (S series, Note series, J series and so on), iPhone is by far the best selling.
Man I dunno about that. The iPhone 6 is just way too big for daily use and the plus models are hilariously huge.
As long as Apple sells 4-inch phones, those are what I'll be buying. Small, compact, easily fits into a pocket.
Expensive accessories
The charging cables being the worst of all, and I don't mean just cost wise. Every consumer review site on the planet ranks Apple cables at the bottom... even Apple's own store site.
You'd think that other phone manufacturers would all consolidate on a set of standard dimensions so that more accessories could be used across brands. They already agree on ports - why not agree on the layout of ports and buttons and dimensions?
By this same logic, Windows is the best OS since it's the most popular desktop OS.
(Not saying that Windows is bad though)
Apple also doesn't have a new flagship out yet...
Meanwhile, next quarter will be comparing samsungs new flagship to last years flagship from Apple and you think that is somehow a more fair comparison?
Was there a reason for him to NOT stay employeed at Apple?
You only need dongles because the built-in ones are lacking or missing. For example, you need a camera dongle to supplement the built in one that's like 10th on DxOMark, stereo mic dongle since the built in one is only mono, external storage dongle because missing SD card slot, etc.
That's exactly what I said in my post which you quoted, "They already agree on ports". Now I restate the question I had right after that - why not agree on the layout and dimensions of everything else on the phone? Instead of accessories having to be made for specific obscure phones, accessories would be made for 4" Android Phones, for example, and would work with all Android phones with a screen of that size.
It limits how much creativity can go into the design of the phones, but it's not like any of them are remotely creative anyways - no competitive advantage is loss because it never existed.
What Android fanboys either don't realize or gloss over, is the EXCELLENT system integration of the whole Apple device/computer ecosystem. For me, THAT is huge and trumps things like slightly better HW specs.
This must be fake news. Apple is doomed. I read it right here
On the serious tip, people love Apple products.
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The "competition" had a flagship. It caught fire and sank.
On the serious tip, people love Apple products.
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The "competition" had a flagship. It caught fire and sank.
Sales by model mean a grand total of nothing. Its a useless statistic meant to bolster a company with a tiny limited product line and fairly outrageous prices.
No one number tells the full story. It's an interesting difference in strategy between Apple and Samsung, Android and iOS. You'll need to look at it a few ways to really grasp the pros and cons. The fact that Apple has a very narrow, very simple product mix is a large part of the reason why they dominate the industry profits while still lagging in OS adoption. It'll be interesting how the profits vs. penetration battle plays out over the long run.
That can't be right... I remember being told quite clearly on numerous occasions that a phone with less than 32GB of Flash was unusable. It was well publicized that the 16GB iPhone was, in fact, a scam on old ladies.
So, out of 353 million phones sold, 39 million were iPhones.
This is why Apple can't have too many models, need to keep those sales concentrated to generate articles like this one.
This article is nothing but "damn lies and statistics".
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The best is when they have articles saying Apple and Android combined dominate the market with 99% total share.
This is why Apple can't have too many models, need to keep those sales concentrated to generate articles like this one.
This article is nothing but "damn lies and statistics".
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The best is when they have articles saying Apple and Android combined dominate the market with 99% total share.
I don't know that any category of accessory is exclusive, but there is some advantage to having 2 or 3 specific form factors (not just general sizes, but exact dimensions) that you keep for a number of years. As opposed to having a dozen form factors and changing them every year. It gets painted as "horrible" that the 6/6s/7 "are exactly the same" (except for everything inside), but there are also some benefits.
iPhone users are frequently regarded as being more wiling to spend money, and there are fewer current/recent designs to target, so it's a good market for makers of accessories.
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Apple concentrates sales so they can post number like these:
Nothing about their concentration of sales has prevented all of the Android marketshare articles-- this isn't a gimmick, it's just additional information.