Some parts of this article are silly. Of course Android users are less loyal to the brands they use. Because they have a huge range of Android brands to choose from. iOS users only have Apple.
As for switching from iOS to Android or vice-versa. While I’m sticking with Apple as I like their products. A few friends and associates who started off with iOS and switched to Android due to work or a good deal with their service provider ended up actually prefering it! Which surprised me a little.
I don’t know if Apple already does this, but they really should test the latest versions of Android while developing their latest and greatest to see if they’re missing something. Because I for one don’t know anybody who has switched from Android to iOS.
Go to Reddit and comb through thousands of posts. See what phone they're talking about switching to.
hint: it's iPhone X. There's also massive adoption of Apple Watch evident there, and guess what platform is required for Apple Watch.
On an individual basis, there are certainly going to be examples of people who have an iPhone and decide to try out an Android. This article is talking about overall statistical trends that are commercially significant, not anecdotal recollections of a person. Again, Reddit provides literally thousands of comments that make any one person's "I don't know anyone who's switched from Android" rather meaningless.
Eh, the article is talking about more percentage of people changing from iPhone to Android than from Android to iPhone.
The TechCrunch piece has an insightful comment that points out that the difference really is just a side effect of market share, and isn't "loyalty" at all.
You can think of it this way. You have a theoretical population of ten million iOS owners and 100 million Android owners. If one million iOS owners switch to Android that's 90% loyalty. And if five million Android owners switch to iOS than that's 95% loyalty. So at the end of the year, iOS has 14 million users and Android has 96 million.
Does the "loyalty" number actually reflect Android's long-term prospects if the trend continues? Or does it give a false impression?
The report use only USA data, so, it is not 10-90, it is 40-45% to 60-55% depending of the quarter
Dis is an appleinsider gabbage. Havin to giv samsung phones such high failure rate its totally speakin in bias nd spreadin false info. I cme frm a family wit a divide in samsung(andriod)/ ifones(ios), nd ve cme to a conclusion that apple devices r all gabbage wit a very high failure rate witin a short life span, its either d camera failz or hardware components stpz respondin or d entire fne jst shutz dwn on u, as compared to the category of us usin high premium android/samsung devices
Of course the "more loyal" people stay around longer. Therefore, of course the underdog product has more loyal users.
However, I definitely think the Apple-user community has just as much Stockholm syndrome... If Apple hadn't won me over in 2007/2008, I'd still be using the Windows platform. That Apple was fantastic. Today's Apple isn't. I'm sticking around because it was a lot of effort to change platforms and because it's still not as bad as the alternative. I might not have Stockholm syndrome (I'm fully aware of Apple's abuses), but I am still sticking around because of a quality Apple no longer possesses. The wider user base and the media still talks about Apple is if they're the same company that they were in 2010...
Dis is an appleinsider gabbage. Havin to giv samsung phones such high failure rate its totally speakin in bias nd spreadin false info. I cme frm a family wit a divide in samsung(andriod)/ ifones(ios), nd ve cme to a conclusion that apple devices r all gabbage wit a very high failure rate witin a short life span, its either d camera failz or hardware components stpz respondin or d entire fne jst shutz dwn on u, as compared to the category of us usin high premium android/samsung devices
Of course more android users are going to stick with android phones. If you are in the market for a sub $200 dollar phone you have to stick with android.
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However, I definitely think the Apple-user community has just as much Stockholm syndrome... If Apple hadn't won me over in 2007/2008, I'd still be using the Windows platform. That Apple was fantastic. Today's Apple isn't. I'm sticking around because it was a lot of effort to change platforms and because it's still not as bad as the alternative. I might not have Stockholm syndrome (I'm fully aware of Apple's abuses), but I am still sticking around because of a quality Apple no longer possesses. The wider user base and the media still talks about Apple is if they're the same company that they were in 2010...