Well, the "actual" overall trend is that the iPhone continues to increase its market share every year. As opposed to your "imaginary" overall trend.
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iPhone Represents 55% of Verizon's 4Q 2011 Smartphone Sales
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Well, the "actual" overall trend is that the iPhone continues to increase its market share every year. As opposed to your "imaginary" overall trend.
I'm glad being "different" makes you happy.
I love iOS on a phone... and the iPhone is the only phone that does.
Count me as part of the HAPPY generic masses.
Ummm, you can root it and rom it dude, cuz you're supposed to void your warranty and fix your phone's problems by yourself.
iOS also has some bloatware that you can't uninstall like Newsstand, Stocks, etc.
What stores were open on Christmas day? Or did you mean activated on Christmas day?
LOL, that's like saying Gmail on Android phone is bloatware.
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What difference does it make?
Hmm... source, perhaps?
Other than that, Apple is doing great: can't wait for the holiday quarter results
Hmmm, very good analogy!
http://www.cultofmac.com/139839/mac...es-to-rise-while-pc-shipments-decline-report/
Yeah, I know now. I don't even know why people say things like "Android has bloatware" when it really doesn't by definition.
Great, you done?
Well it does, because apps like demos and blockbuster video and amazon mp3 that you can't uninstall end up using up resources on phones with low memory. Its not as big a deal now that Android OEMs are stuffing like 4GB of ram into their phones, but it was when the droid1 and other phones released around that time were the prevalent phones available.
Hmmm, very good analogy!
http://www.cultofmac.com/139839/mac...es-to-rise-while-pc-shipments-decline-report/
You do know the chart isn't showing every manufacturer? Asus did better than Apple, if I can recall. But I'm not sure.
Really.
iOS by default as bloat ware on it.
Lets see Apps on iOS that I see tossed in a folder called crap or unwanted ect that can not be removed.
Stocks, Game Center, Reminders.
On Android you can remove the Gmail app or any of the others. But on iOS you can not remove stock Apple Apps that they force on you.
Thats not what bloatware is. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean it's bloatware. See definition above.
Second, on android you CAN'T remove the bloatware app or any of the others stock unless you root your phone. ICS allows you to 'disable' any app you want, but it still exists on the phone.
I brought it up because other people brought it up because they thought it meant something else. like this person:
A lot of Android hate here. Is it good to have NO choice? "You can order any smart phone you like, as long as it's an iPhone".
Yes, don't forget the 47% marketshare...somehow this means everyone doesn't have an Android...
The 47% is actually not market share. Look at how they collected the data and you'll see it's just a share of sales over the holidays and only addresses US. In reality, I would assume that Android's market share a much higher.
A lot of Android hate here. Is it good to have NO choice? "You can order any smart phone you like, as long as it's an iPhone".
It's always good to have choice
And it is called macrumors after all, so one should expect some bias. But personally, I don't hate android at all. I'd like to give it and WP7 a go sometime to see how they compare to iOS
Isn't that where the LEAST accurate data will come from? I think sales in the quarter following the launch quarter are a more fair test.
Apps that carriers put on their phones as part of some kind of advertising/marketing deal with third party companies is bloatware. You can't uninstall it, and it uses resources on your phone. Amazon MP3, Blockbuster video, Riptide Demos or whatever other game demos they have are bloatware.
Stock apps that are shipped with the OS is not bloatware. I didn't think it meant something else, you did.
I was talking global marketshare. The 47% was some number I thought I had read, it's actually 52% the last time someone reported on it, I believe...(feel free to correct me as I may be wrong)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396404,00.asp