Android's global smartphone market share now stands at around 88%
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AnonD-226698, 04 Nov 2016Flawed logic... Market share is not how many units you mak... moreIf I pay someone 50 dollars to do a job whos to say that it will be done to my liking? If I pay more to get a job done righ, the way I want & I want the job to look good then I will pay more.
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AnonD-1825, 03 Nov 2016Its actually android companies who are duying, didn't you r... moreFlawed logic...
Market share is not how many units you make, is how many units you sell...
The more you sell the more market share you have.
So read this in this way... Out of 100 users 87 use Android and 13 use Apple.
The underlying explanation is basic economics...People tend to make rational decisions:
If you can pay a person to do a task, let's say 50 dollars, why would you pay another person 300 hundred to do the same task.
So if you can get a really good phone that does all that an iPhone does for half the price then why pay the premium?
Some will do it for status, fandom or just to fit in...but none of those pay you bills at the end of the month. And this is more true in more budget wise countries, reason why the iPhone is underperforming outside the USA.
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SJM32, 04 Nov 2016I can do just as much on my 7+ that I can on my G5. More &a... moreI'm not denying the ability of any of them there are some things that apple do better than android and vice versa. I'm just saying that there are more mobiles using android than apple or Microsoft
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Anonymous, 04 Nov 2016Apple is a niche market in terms of mobile phones. It has a... moreI can do just as much on my 7+ that I can on my G5. More & more things are being made to support both iOS & Android nowadays.
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Apple is a niche market in terms of mobile phones. It has a cult following at best from a few die hard fans. Android dominates the market for the simple reason being that it is compatible with almost everything out there. There are only two major brands that, I know of, that don't have android (or some variation of it) on their devices. Both Microsoft and Apple will never hold the same market share unless they make some major innovations to the operating systems.
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AnonD-442781, 04 Nov 2016You may be right. Windows has the ultimate security. Nobody... moreYou can't hack Windows phones, as all apps run in sandboxed mode.
And yeah, Windows phones' market share is very small - just like supercars have a much lower market share than budget cars.
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AppleFan1998, 03 Nov 2016Oh my God, the idea of spending more than $600 on an Androi... moreI'm perfectly happy with my originally 600 euros costing Nexus 6. Wish that troll bait was even a nice try, well - it wasn't. Yawn.
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Carol, 04 Nov 2016You just said nothing and you're proud of it. Wey to go, ji... moreYou may be right. Windows has the ultimate security. Nobody uses it so nobody is going to hack it. XD
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When Apple release 15 iPhones in 9 years & Samsung release 23 since the S7 its not really surprising that the market share is so vast.
By the way, this is not a comment to back up for Apple, this is just me & my opinion & thinking that if Apple want to gain a little back in terms of market share then they need to tap into more markets.
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AnonD-404798, 04 Nov 2016the idea of spending anything on Crapple product is absolut... moreYour lame Applephobic comments are laughable.
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AnonD-524060, 03 Nov 2016Yes, to some extent you are right, some companies who write... moreI am pretty sure you ain't gonna challenge a windows phone at those speks;). But, i give you that. You are one user that actually knows a bit about android. But let's go back to what i've said. A phone should work from start. No compromises just to make it work better. Jailbreack and custom injections. You never know what you actually inject into your device. Yeah, seems super, everybody sais is good. But are their any that knows coding, that really talk about this custom stuff? Now i am not saying that all custome rom's have strange behaviour, or control your date, but since is free, i don't trust them, nothing is free;).No blootware, bla bla bla, is not enoigh Android is a money making drill machine, and people put all kinds of s*t on it, the gate to the info eaters is wide opened. I rather have my info into one company then in the hands of 3 million people;) Anyway, let's not enter the conspiracy world. The stuck android will not fix the fragmented part of the OS: the engine, it does not matter the interface as long as the engine cripples. And this is what the engine does no matter what interface you use;). You will always need to do a format every now and then if you are a heavy user;). And you can't say is not true, you are talking with an all systems user here;). P..s. 2 gb left for play on an android phone is quite, quite few.
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Anonymous, 03 Nov 2016Yup, exactly! Android phones are popular because the mar... moreI always apreciate a real smartphone user, thank you. For a while i tought i'm left alone. Anyway, i still think symbian is better then them all. Proper multi tasking. The only system that actually has real multitasking. Yeah, the one you find on a desktop. That is called multitasking. Not this subpar experience we have from the "new" systems. Sadly, was always build with low hardware, and nokia faild going with windows. Meego and symbian working in as a single enviroment (symbian for middle to low end device, meego for high end, their real plan for the future) would have killed Android by now. If you ever tested the meego, you will understand why selfish users love that system so much. It is a way better version of android, more secure and reliable and is based on the same core, LINUX. Anyway, yeah, at this point, the better choice is windows. It has it's bugs and problems to. But no where near as many as android. And is not locked down like ios. I mean. Just the use of itunes is already a turn off. Not to say the so many other crapp apple does to lock their customers into their jail ecosystem...
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AnonD-442781, 03 Nov 2016I have an lg p880 from over 4 years ago that I keep bedside... moreYou just said nothing and you're proud of it. Wey to go, ji joe! And if android has better security the windows, then my grandma knows better boxing then Tyson ever did;). She actually knocked him out with a finger.
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all you guys saying the companies of your phones are better than the other when we all know all these companies are ripping us off our pockets with their flagships, hell even some of their midranged phones :3
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AppleFan1998, 03 Nov 2016Oh my God, the idea of spending more than $600 on an Androi... morethe idea of spending anything on Crapple product is absolutely laughable .
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AnonD-524060, 03 Nov 2016Your comment clearly states that your knowledge in Smartpho... moreOh my God, the idea of spending more than $600 on an Android is absolutely laughable.
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AnonD-603630, 03 Nov 2016The crazy part about these statistics is, that Apple claims... moreAndroid phones ASP is only 208 dollar, propably even less now because that number was from 5 months ago.
you dont do much money with selling those cheap phones, thats why Apple getting all the profits.
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The crazy part about these statistics is, that Apple claims about 80-90% oft all profit made with Smartphones, worldwide...
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Julliard, 03 Nov 2016Apple officially the endangered species in smartphone opera... moreIts actually android companies who are duying, didn't you read how Sony just lowered their expectations and they are waiting whole year sales to be under 17 million. Yes whole year sales.
When you look that android share you would expect android companies doing well, but in reality very few of them does. But even companies who are slowly duying are growing that marketshare.
Apple isn't going anywhere from the market, they are doing very well, but they cant beat 50 different android OEMs. And they don't need to do that.
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So what happen to Tim Cook & fans claimed that a lot Android users switch to iOS??
Here is the exact quote from some source:
Apple's fiscal Q1 2016 call last night, was no different, Cook said:
We were blown away by the level of Android switchers that we had last quarter. It was the highest ever by far. And so we see that as a huge opportunity.