Looking at the @asmyco graph... it still looks like market penetration is still less than 60%.
last month, Bloomberg says there are 7.1Billion 'Cell Phones' out there. Last I looked there are about 1.5B Smartphones sold a year... assuming 3 years useful life of a phone that means there is about 4.5B phones... again... around 60%
So, there are 2.5BILLION feature phones (ToG math).
and if you get to 90% penetration, (when the growth curve drops), you'll still have 700MILLION feature phones. (3 year life 250M a year... more phones than apple sells per year now).
All imaginary numbers aside... Here's what included in Android "feature phone" numbers... multiply this by the number of bazaars throughout the third world and it comes to nearly 2.5 billion. Even the numbers of used phones in Turkey (of the 2.5 world), are impressive. PS: While some "look' like smart phones, they are not.
They need a 4" device at $99. Right now, its very neat and clean with the iPhone 5s still able to command that spot.
No outright iPhone is sold at a $99 price point. It's meaningless discussion 'on contract' pricing in a world where iPhone 6+ can already be purchased for zero upfront. Total cost of ownership is really the only thing that matters.
WRONG. If you are talking about poor countries than yes. But even that is changing.
If what you are saying is true and then there would be ZERO reason to have smartphones. A flipphone would do just fine.
But you are dead wrong. Most people who buy iPhones or $500+ phones use it as a mini computer that just so happens to make phone calls.
Just go to the stats. See how many hours people talk on the phone versus texting, email, internet, apps. Talking on the phone is only about 10-15% of daily use.
In 2012 Making calls is now the fifth most-used function on smartphones. Now its probably even less, probably 7th or 8th.
Looking at that only 10% of phone time is used for talking. I bet in 2015 that drops down to 5% or less
Unless the study/research/statistics in article have other base to come up with such numbers; this study seems based on 2000 people in a world of 7 billions people and I don't have to say how many billions of people uses their phones daily. When you find study based on across the world population from urban-to-rural and in-between demographics phone users than let's discuss what percentage of people using phones for talk more than other functions on a daily base. Now a days, many studies are based on a narrow/skewed data to prove their point of view.
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I must warn you, I have a rose gold belt in the ancient (2014) art of ShawWu... I also find the 5c nearly equal in robustness to the 5s.
Looking at the @asmyco graph... it still looks like market penetration is still less than 60%.
last month, Bloomberg says there are 7.1Billion 'Cell Phones' out there. Last I looked there are about 1.5B Smartphones sold a year... assuming 3 years useful life of a phone that means there is about 4.5B phones... again... around 60%
So, there are 2.5BILLION feature phones (ToG math).
and if you get to 90% penetration, (when the growth curve drops), you'll still have 700MILLION feature phones. (3 year life 250M a year... more phones than apple sells per year now).
All imaginary numbers aside... Here's what included in Android "feature phone" numbers... multiply this by the number of bazaars throughout the third world and it comes to nearly 2.5 billion. Even the numbers of used phones in Turkey (of the 2.5 world), are impressive. PS: While some "look' like smart phones, they are not.
They need a 4" device at $99. Right now, its very neat and clean with the iPhone 5s still able to command that spot.
No outright iPhone is sold at a $99 price point. It's meaningless discussion 'on contract' pricing in a world where iPhone 6+ can already be purchased for zero upfront. Total cost of ownership is really the only thing that matters.
WRONG. If you are talking about poor countries than yes. But even that is changing.
If what you are saying is true and then there would be ZERO reason to have smartphones. A flipphone would do just fine.
But you are dead wrong. Most people who buy iPhones or $500+ phones use it as a mini computer that just so happens to make phone calls.
Just go to the stats. See how many hours people talk on the phone versus texting, email, internet, apps. Talking on the phone is only about 10-15% of daily use.
In 2012 Making calls is now the fifth most-used function on smartphones. Now its probably even less, probably 7th or 8th.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2166603/Making-calls-fifth-used-function-smartphones--web-Facebook-games-music.html
Below is how people use their smartphone:
1.Browsing the internet
24.49 minutes
2. Checking social networking sites
17.29 minutes
3. Playing games
14.26 minutes
4. Listening to music
15.38 minutes
5. Making calls
12.08 minutes
6. Emails 11.06 minutes
7. Text messaging
10.12 minutes
8. Watching TV/films
9.23 minutes
9. Reading books
9.18 minutes
10.Taking photographs
3.25 minutes
Looking at that only 10% of phone time is used for talking. I bet in 2015 that drops down to 5% or less
Unless the study/research/statistics in article have other base to come up with such numbers; this study seems based on 2000 people in a world of 7 billions people and I don't have to say how many billions of people uses their phones daily. When you find study based on across the world population from urban-to-rural and in-between demographics phone users than let's discuss what percentage of people using phones for talk more than other functions on a daily base. Now a days, many studies are based on a narrow/skewed data to prove their point of view.