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  • iPhone marketshare dips to 14.8% amid tougher Chinese competition, Gartner says

    volcan said:
    Google Now launched July 9, 2012

    Siri launched October 14, 2011
    Voice control, search and integration existed in Android before Google started bundling it together and calling it Google Now. Mostly it evolved from Google Voice Search (2002). Although, I wouldn't exactly call Siri a copy of that, it did however integrate a lot of that functionality.
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  • iPhone marketshare dips to 14.8% amid tougher Chinese competition, Gartner says

    volcan said:
    SnRa said:

    Android software and hardware has also had a major influence on iOS, from multitasking to notifications, NFC/mobile payments, voice commands, device size, etc.  
    I'm not so sure I would characterize it as Android having a major influence on iOS. Keep in mind that Apple adapted iOS and the iPhone from OS X and their other hardware accomplishments where they have had multitasking, notifications, voice commands and lots of large screens, years before Android popped up. It is not like they saw an Android device and said "Oh wow why didn't we think of that?" Apple was just taking their time to get those features done right when the CPU was powerful enough to allow it without stuttering or draining the battery. Also Japanese feature phones had NFC payments like forever, so I wouldn't give Android any credit for inventing that.
    More so the successful implementation of those features on Android devices, Android wasn't necessarily the first for some of those. I mean, Apple's iPhone wasn't the first phone to have a fingerprint scanner, but they had been one of the first to implement it in a successful manner (credit due). As for aspects like device size, clearly if not for companies like Samsung, devices like a 5.5" iPhone might not have ever come to market. Proven success of the Galaxy/Note series helped change the direction of the industry.


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  • iPhone marketshare dips to 14.8% amid tougher Chinese competition, Gartner says

    cropr said:
      
    Perhaps you don't realize it but in the $150 - $250 price range the quality of the smartphones has increased a lot in the last 12 months.  
    Definitely, people are too unaware of what the actual competition is.

    For example, number 5 on the list is Xiaomi, they, for the most part, operate only in China, bits of South Asia and more recently India.

    This is a $106 Xiaomi smartphone, the Redmi 3:

    It's all metal, has an IPS display, a mid-range Qualcomm chip with 4G LTE, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB storage, microSD, dual SIM and a 13 MP camera.



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  • iPhone marketshare dips to 14.8% amid tougher Chinese competition, Gartner says

    cali said:
    cnocbui said:
    Who stole iOS, I must have missed that?

    The narrative used to be that Samsung would suffer in the face of Chinese competition to the point they would soon be wiped out, yet they are holding their own and it's Apple who have lost ground to the Chinese upstarts.  The S7 really saved Samsung's bacon.
    Durr Hurr who do you think stole iOS? Durr...
    There is plenty of innovation from both camps (clearly), all you're doing is expressing your ignorance to the market outside of Apple... All 85.2% of it.

    Android software and hardware has also had a major influence on iOS, from multitasking to notifications, NFC/mobile payments, voice commands, device size, etc.  
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  • Apple Pay competitor Samsung Pay arrives in China with Alibaba partnership

    There's quite a bit of competition in the Chinese market in terms of mobile payment services. Xiaomi's QuickPass, in partnership with UnionPay, is coming soon and Huawei's mobile payment service, also with UnionPay, has been slowly rolling out since late last year.
    EsquireCats