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Apple's iPhone 6 dents Android's crown
CNBC ^
| January 6 2015
| by Matt Clinch
Posted on 01/07/2015 5:49:10 PM PST by Swordmaker
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Analytics are coming out on the smartphone market for the 3 months ending in November. According to CNBC and other sources, Android is rapidly losing market share to Apple's iPhone 6 and 6Plus in US, China, and Europe. This data does not count the Christmas shopping month of December for which another set of data released last week showed that 51% of activations were Apple iOS devices. PING!
Apple Grabbing Smartphone Market Share Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
01/07/2015 5:55:20 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
What a dumbass column!
The Apple fanboys are getting their thongs in a wad.
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posted on
01/07/2015 5:58:59 PM PST
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: Swordmaker
Three Months ending November 2014 compared to same period 2013
Source Kantar Worldpanel ComTech
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posted on
01/07/2015 5:59:08 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: caver
What a dumbass column!
The Apple fanboys are getting their thongs in a wad. And you felt compelled to comment and insult fellow Freepers, WHY? You must be a sufferer from MAPS.
Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new ICD-10 addenda:
90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projected Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.
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posted on
01/07/2015 6:01:23 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
“insult fellow Freepers”
Huh, where did you get that in my post?
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posted on
01/07/2015 6:06:21 PM PST
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: caver
What a dumbass column!
The Apple fanboys are getting their thongs in a wad.
That is a FUD Packer record! Congratulations!
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posted on
01/07/2015 6:06:43 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: caver
When I came back to the office after the holidays, seemed everybody got an iPhone 6 for Christmas. I mean, people were literally dancing down the hallways, showing off all their iOS apps and saying how much better 2015 is going to be on account of them having the new iPhone. They are going to be so much more productive with this device.
I'm still clinging to my iPhone 5 because my contract is not up until end of March. But you can bet I'll be picking up an iPhone 6 at that time so I can get in on all the fun.
To: caver
Huh, where did you get that in my post? You don't think that there are a lot of Apple users on FreeRepublic. Most of them don't appreciate the term "fanboys" or terms like "thongs in a wad." We have put up with the snarky negative posts for too long. If you didn't mean it that way, I apologize.
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posted on
01/07/2015 6:17:21 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: PA Engineer; caver
That is a FUD Packer record! Congratulations! I think it is an unconscious urge among some. They don't even realize when the do it, as witness caver's response to my mild rebuke. It has become second nature to assume that Apple users will just accept the "joking" insults and slurs. . . supposedly targeted to everyone else out there, but not to someone closer that might be hit by their snarky commentary.
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posted on
01/07/2015 6:21:21 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
My wife got an iPhone after both of us using Android phones for 2 years now, and we both fund iOS cumbersome and excessively time-consuming to navigate. I think it is likely better for first-timers. But Android’s ability to rapidly access every area, and customize is really hard to do without.
To: SamAdams76
people were literally dancing down the hallways, showing off all their iOS apps and saying how much better 2015 is going to be on account of them having the new iPhone. They are going to be so much more productive with this device. Are these folks dancers or Apple salesmen? Otherwise, doesn't sound like they're being all that productive....
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posted on
01/07/2015 6:30:02 PM PST
by
kevao
(Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
To: Swordmaker
My 6 plus gives me a little wood - I’m lovin it
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posted on
01/07/2015 6:33:46 PM PST
by
atc23
(The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
To: kevao
This is a picture of some of them...taken on an iPhone, of course.
Of course the iPhone is making them more productive. They now have time to dance down the hallways on their way to their next meeting.
To: All
One thing this chart is wrong about is that it lists the market share of Android as being ALL smartphones. . . but nothing could be further from the truth. In the trial between Apple and Samsung last year, Samsung was required to reveal their mix of products and their capabilities. It turns out that the Number one seller of Android phones was selling of its Android product line only 35% could have been considered to have been in the
smartphone category, yet the Android line is always reported as being monolithically a smartphone OS. Many of Samsung's phones were either
Feature phones which, while running on Android, only had pre-loaded software and were incapable of loading additional apps from the Android Play Store or any other source, or were other Android phones that did not even have functionality beyond basic phone, internet, mail, camera, and messaging. . . similar to phones before the smartphone revolution.
Many of the other Android phone makers make only Feature phones, only basic phones, and a few make only smartphones. . . but to say that ALL Androids are smartphones competing for the same market as Apple for the same customers is false; it just isn't true.
For example, Xiaomi, the current market leader in China makes a mix of Android dumb, feature, and smartphones (which are copies of iPhones) but it turns out that they could grab the Chinese market through low price leadership (and making smartphones that looked like iPhones in both exterior and UI screens) but also by achieving their low prices with the simple expediency of not paying royalties and/or licensing for the any of the cell phone technology they are using in their phones. When they attempted to move into the India Market in the last quarter, the legal system in India discovered this and has banned and confiscated their products pending infringement litigation from quite a few companies, including Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia, and others, whose intellectual property has been allegedly appropriated without compensation by Xiaomi.
The other distortion is that it is comparing one company's OS, Apple's iOS, against hundreds of others in the case of Android (Approximately 225 to be more accurate) and less than a dozen in the case of Windows phone. Other refers to only a couple of OS makers such as RIM and Samsung's new OS which is failing.
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posted on
01/07/2015 7:03:29 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: montag813
My wife got an iPhone after both of us using Android phones for 2 years now, and we both fund iOS cumbersome and excessively time-consuming to navigate. I think it is likely better for first-timers. But Androids ability to rapidly access every area, and customize is really hard to do without. How can it be cumbersome and time-consuming to navigate? You can put anything you want on your home screen. . . and on your dock. Instant access. People you want to dial, on your favorites screen, in any order you choose. Or you can tell SIRI to start any app you want or call anyone you want. How is that cumbersome? Apparently you just don't know how to use it to the best advantage and are used to the much more cumbersome user interface of Android.
This idea you cannot customize iPhones is false.
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posted on
01/07/2015 7:11:55 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
Android dominates in so many areas...
except profits.
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posted on
01/07/2015 7:14:53 PM PST
by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
To: caver
I have a Mac and an iPhone. Love them both.
I’m not a “fanboy” and I don’t wear thongs.
So, yeah, you did insult me.
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posted on
01/08/2015 4:45:51 AM PST
by
PeteB570
( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
To: montag813
What you’re really telling us is that you’re unfamiliar with the iPhone interface.
To: Clara Lou
What youre really telling us is that youre unfamiliar with the iPhone interface. Untrue. I am very familiar with it, having owned a 4s, then moving on to an Android model for two years. Moving BACK to the iPhone it does seem to take longer to do the same things by comparison. iOS 8 helps, but not quite enough.
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