michael scrip

freshmaker said:

Google just needs to copy Apple and give users a daily pop-up to upgrade the OS that you cannot dismiss, only snooze for 24 hours.  That would certainly improve adoption rates

It's not up to Google though. The manufacturers and carriers decide when, or if, your phone will get the update.

I never understood the "smartphone saturation" thing with regards to the iPhone.

Yes... someday everyone on Earth will own some kind of smartphone.  But even then... not everyone will have an Apple iPhone.  

Let's say smartphone sales plateau at around 1.5 billion units a year.  Apple only sells 230 million a year right now.  So there's plenty of room for Apple to grow INSIDE a saturated market.

Isn't this same thing happening in PC sales?  

PC sales are down... but Apple is growing INSIDE the PC market.

SpamSandwich said:

what's the purpose of this thread? GoPro has no overlap with Apple.

It's because... um... GoPro makes an iOS app?

Oh wait... everybody makes an iOS app    

bobschlob said:

I dunno... Somehow 80+% of phone sales being Android doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Yes... 80 out of 100 smartphones sold in China are running some version of Android.

But 40 of those 80 are under $100 models. All told... the average price of an Android smartphone in China is around $200.  So are you really that surprised when Android makes up 80% of smartphone sales in China?

If you want to evaluate the iPhone's adoption in China... remember that the average price of an iPhone in China is over $600.

Cheap Android phones sell in huge volumes... and thus have higher market share.

And Apple doesn't do cheap.

josu said:

michael scrip said:

A broken clock is right twice a day.  

Make enough predictions and one of them will be correct every so often.

 I don't say they are right, what I said is that there's a fair possibility they are right, my guess is the same as yours, even more I will make a post after this explaining why I think they are wrong, but in 2012-2013 I did the same and feel totally embarrassed when my "post of the week" winning post in an Apple related blog here in Spain was totally wrong and "those clowns" were right.

I'm just amazed that they can manipulate billions of dollars worth of stock with their "guesses"