Apple extends lead over Samsung, gains on Google in U.S. smartphone market

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  • Reply 21 of 35
    dasanman69dasanman69 Posts: 13,002member
    hill60 wrote: »
    These figures show Android has obviously plateaued and is beginning to drop, meanwhile iOS is still growing.

    I wouldn't be surprised if these numbers see sawed yoy.
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  • Reply 22 of 35
    macfandavemacfandave Posts: 603member


    Things will get even better for Apple once it is realized that Samsung is causing the Korean Crisis.  Samsung's US advertising budget alone could feed all of the starving people of North Korea. Kim Jong-Un is apparently tapping into jealousy and envy over Samsung's splashy success.


     


    It's funny how things like that work.

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  • Reply 23 of 35
    smalmsmalm Posts: 677member

    Translating % market share into number of users (in Millions):


     


    total users:  from 123.8 to 133.7 (+8%)


    Android:  from 66.5 to 69.1 (+4%)


    Apple:  from 43.3  to 52.0 (+20%)


    Samsung:  from 25.1 to 28.5 (+13%)


    HTC:  from 13.6 to 12.4 (-9%)


    Motorola:  from 11.8 to 11.2 (-4%)


    LG:  from 8.7 to 9.1 (+5%)



    Blackberry:  from 9.0 to 7.2 (-20%)


    Windows : from 3.7 to 4.3 (+15%)



     


    In case someone didn't notice: I love stories about market share image

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  • Reply 24 of 35


    I have a friend who used an 3g iphone for  4 years before he recently switched to a Galaxy Note II. I bet he won't keep that Note for 4 years without changing.

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  • Reply 25 of 35
    piotpiot Posts: 1,346member
    dasanman69 wrote: »
    I wouldn't be surprised if these numbers see sawed yoy.

    Well Comscore has been publishing these figures since late 2009 so you could check them yourself.

    Spoiler. You <i>will</i> be surprised.
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  • Reply 26 of 35
    macbook promacbook pro Posts: 1,605member
    I have a friend who used an 3g iphone for  4 years before he recently switched to a Galaxy Note II. I bet he won't keep that Note for 4 years without changing.

    That's the thing. Whenever I speak to these Android fanatics they apparently all have multiple models. I find that odd. If your last phone is so great then why do you upgrade every six months.
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  • Reply 27 of 35
    dasanman69dasanman69 Posts: 13,002member
    piot wrote: »
    Well Comscore has been publishing these figures since late 2009 so you could check them yourself.

    Spoiler. You <i>will</i> be surprised.

    The smartphone market is still maturing, I'd rather wait another year or 2.
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  • Reply 28 of 35
    mieswallmieswall Posts: 84member
    Or the numbers could be summed as:
    9.9m new users in a Q.
    Of them, 8.7 are IOS. 87% of market growth. The rest is canibalism.
    How I would like this to be true...
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  • Reply 29 of 35
    jragostajragosta Posts: 10,473member
    mieswall wrote: »
    Or the numbers could be summed as:
    9.9m new users in a Q.
    Of them, 8.7 are IOS. 87% of market growth. The rest is canibalism.
    How I would like this to be true...

    Which should be sufficient to make AAPL drop another 10 points or so tomorrow.
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  • Reply 30 of 35
    analogjackanalogjack Posts: 1,073member
    [quote]"But our neighbours still think I continue to have trouble in bed."[/quote]

    Why would the neighbors think that unless she told them or told someone else who told them?/ Please give a hypothetical situation where it makes sense. for example was your wife exhibiting behaviour that some ignorant people could mistake as 'trouble in bed', if so can you elucidate what this behaviour may be. Or maybe the 'trouble in bed' was actually to do with her going complaining to the local Sleeping Beauty mattress surplus store and complaining to one of the salesmen about her aching back from the overly soft mattress.

    It's not a big deal but I like things to make sense.
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  • Reply 31 of 35
    vorsosvorsos Posts: 302member


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    I would love if AI stopped the digitimes rumours, the analysts BS, this sort of bait, and become a little more technically oriented.



    Wouldn't that be great? Someone told me that this site used to be much better: rumours and stories culled through insight and research, rather than just lifting content (almost word for word) from other sites in an embarrassingly transparent effort to cultivate hits through troll-whoring.


    In recent months they've managed to sink lower than MacRumours, and that must've taken some doing.



    Still doing better than Cult of Mac, unless your desired posts are sponsored accessory reviews and tips that amount to nothing more than changing a System Preference.


     

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    I have a friend who used an 3g iphone for  4 years before he recently switched to a Galaxy Note II. I bet he won't keep that Note for 4 years without changing.


    That's the thing. Whenever I speak to these Android fanatics they apparently all have multiple models. I find that odd. If your last phone is so great then why do you upgrade every six months.


    It's the only way to get OS updates.


     


    But seriously, do you remember what the marketing media landscape was like in the mid-00s? Windows hardware users pointed to what people were saying about their product, while Apple users pointed to what they were doing with their product. It's the same with iPhones and Androids. One is a useful productivity tool with longevity, the other is still useful but more concerned about looking fancy* and fashionable, which means a short lifespan.


    This is also reflected in marketing; almost every iPhone ad is simply showing various use cases, while Android ads are almost entirely 'Michael Bay meets 5 Gum' with a picture of a phone at the very end.


     


    *Google recently patended a battery-saving mode which disables motion blur and other UI glitz when the battery is <20%.

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  • Reply 32 of 35
    anantksundaramanantksundaram Posts: 20,421member
    kdarling wrote: »
    <span style="line-height:1.231;">Google is selling the Motorola Home division (cable box, etc) for $2.4 billion to another group.  </span>

    There is only one slight problem with your analysis. The $12.5B they paid includes the price for the cable division. You have no idea what they (implicitly) paid. They could be selling that off that at a loss, for all you know.
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  • Reply 33 of 35
    kdarlingkdarling Posts: 1,640member

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    Originally Posted by anantksundaram View Post





    There is only one slight problem with your analysis. The $12.5B they paid includes the price for the cable division. You have no idea what they (implicitly) paid. They could be selling that off that at a loss, for all you know.


     


    As I mentioned, it's not my analysis.  This came from a Forbes article.


     


    And, while you're right that they might've sold the Home division for less (or more!) than what they "paid", it doesn't matter either way.


     


    The point is, Google will not have anywhere near the oft-quoted $12.5 billion sunk into the only parts they care about: the Motorola phone division and its patents.

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  • Reply 34 of 35


    Overpriced, yet in heavy demand.

     

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  • Reply 35 of 35
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member


    Originally Posted by CentralParkMac View Post

    Overpriced, yet in heavy demand.


     


    Samsung stuff, you mean? I agree.

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