Posted on 04/05/2014 1:15:18 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Earlier this morning we posted a report titled "Apple's iPhone is King of Manhattan as Shown in Stunning Map." In that report we covered Business Insider's viewpoint that the iPhone's success in Manhattan proved the great divide in America between the rich and poor. They chose a series of New York maps to prove their point. However, that was a subjective slant to support their position. While I appreciate their report bringing some of this to light, the fact is that if you work with the source mapping service, you'll find a somewhat different reality that expands on Business Insider's viewpoint. Our report will provide with a large selection of maps outside of New York that paints a slightly different picture of the iOS vs. Android War.
A Peak at a Few Larger Cities in the US & Canada
Below you'll see a series of Mapbox created maps of twitter traffic showing whether a city is for iOS or Android. In larger cities we're able to tell that Apple's iOS is strongest. It's quite consistant. But I don't believe that this directly links to having to be rich. I don't believe it's only about the "great divide."
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Good point. Often overlooked is android is based on linux. A friend has modified his linux tablet to work as a low power web server for a small website. Linux rules.
Android is killing nearly everywhere else but the USA.
That's one of the main reasons I moved to the Galaxy Note II last year, and have a Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 tablet on the way. I still like the iPad, especially for use in music production, but the iPhone remains so small it requires little girl fingers and eyes for maximum utility.
I'm still an OS/X partisan on the desktop, but I like Linux, too.
> In that report we covered Business Insider’s viewpoint that the iPhone’s success in Manhattan proved the great divide in America between the rich and poor... if you work with the source mapping service, you’ll find a somewhat different reality that expands on Business Insider’s viewpoint.
BI’s viewpoint always slants left. Thanks Swordmaker.
<I guess this is lost on the “human-factors” expert 30-somethings over at Apple. (I don’t need to one-hand a phone that I cannot see.)
Amen. The problem, as I see it, is that informatics and computer science are almost exclusive domains of the young. I’m a professor in information science and my work strives to inform designers of what users really need. That includes telling the youngsters that they aren’t the only ones on the planet, they aren’t they only ones using the system they design.
I constantly have to remind them of ‘unseen disabilities (defined broadly),’ such as the need for larger or darker print, that make the design good for everyone, not only those with disabilities. They get too much in their own heads, sometimes.
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Bingo.
Who was a dog, so maybe even kicked once.
Huh? Why is there a noun where the verb is supposed to be?
A peek is a noun too. But yeah.
Americans are spoiled. We are wealthy enough to buy what tickles our fancy. Americans blindly opt for Apple devices to be with the in crowd. To be hip. To be whatever feeds their fantasies
You go to Latin America and Asia and Android dominates because it is less expensive and this what they can afford. Japan is rich so they buy a lot of Apple devices. But Android rules Asia, Africa, Latin America, European nations that are not so rich like Greece and Poland etc etc
What is someone in Argentina or Uruguay going to buy? An android phone and Lenovo tablet
I use only Macs, my best friend is all Android. He’s got an amazing Samsung Note, which has a lot of features I admire.
It’s just a technology choice...like Ford versus Chevys, and people assign all this denigration to our choices, seems silly to me!
Supposedly the new iPhone will have a larger screen...
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Oh, the irony of making a typo when critiquing spelling or grammar...
Me, I blame auto-correct. Not that it's always fair, but the alternative is usually blaming myself, and we can't have that, can we? :)
Do note that OSX is built on top of BSD Unix - get to the terminal and us old Unix/Linux geeks can feel right at home.
This all comes back to the old “market share” argument. Apple has never really strived to have the largest market share for any of their devices (the iPad is an exception, if only because it essentially defined the market and it’s taking time for competitors to poach them down to a minority position) - they’re typically aiming for about 30% share or so.
But that 30% they’re targeting is where the majority of the profit is, on the higher-end side of the spectrum and potential customers who are willing to spend money. Note that despite having about a 20% market share in the smartphone market, Apple pulls in a majority of the profits. That’s their business model, and to date it seems to work for them, even if it annoys Wall Street.
By the same token, people who own iPhones and iPads have consistently been shown to use their devices more than those who own competitors’ devices. In that respect, there’s nothing unusual about this particular finding - it merely confers previous results.
Same here. 4 Iphones, 1 Ipad 2, 1 Asus 10, 1 Nexus 7.
My analysis after having both for a couple of years now - IOS is more user friendly and easier to use for the not technically inclined (wife and daughter). Android is much more fun for those who like to tinker and customize (my sons and myself). It truly can do a lot more than an Apple device. And despite what people claim, I have never had a virus on my android tablet.
Finally, Apple still leads in Quality apps. Google, has more overall apps, but the majority of them are just cheap ripoffs of the more popular apps. As soon as Coin Dozer got popular, there were at least 20 to 30 copies in the Google play store. Also, there are a significant amount of “adult themed” apps that you won’t see in the Itunes store, which inflates the Android apps number. I personally wish they would remove them, which is why I still lean towards Apple.
I predict that Apple will be forced to unlock more and more of IOS or continue to lose market share to Android.
Why is apple tracking user’s locations?
years ago it seemed this way, however recently I see (yes an anecdote) a more even split of android tablets. It also pays to take into account apple is rare outside the usa.
They're not. These are maps of the wifi and ISP connections each UUID connects via, not individual location. The generalized location can be inferred but no specific individual device is tracked.
This tracks world wide. . . and Android tablets are not seen in the wild as much. I saw some toy tablets offered the other day with Android: 5" screens and Froyo OS . . . $19.95. No WIFI, BLUETOOTH , or any connectivity at all. Ran on two AA Batteries. It STILL counts as competition for the iPad even though these are not targeting the same customer demographics. Absurd conclusion.
I disagree, in the courts android tablets are now more common than ipads due to cost.
We all know Apple likes to mine the elite sectors of urbanites, urban gays, Subabru drivers and hipsters etc. Having said this, they can F off. I have more respect for a company like LG, Lenovo or Samsung or HTC that brings products (smartFones, tablets) to the world (such as in Uruguay and Thailand) not focusing on the self indulgent elites of certain developed nations.
This arrogance is going to backfire on Apple being they are ignoring vast segments worldwide who would be thrilled (due to media brainwashing) to buy Apple fones tablets at lower price points. Others I have mentioned are rushing in to fill this demand. Thus penetrating the mind of consumers in ways that they will never be buying an apple gizmo. Samsung is already achieving lift-off on this in America, other developed nations and second tier nations like an Argentina and India
Uh, in some areas where Apple simple does not have an official presence, you have a point.
Where Apple does compete, it swiftly becomes the number one selling device model in any market it enters. Japan? 68.7% of mobile phones. Hong Kong 28%. KOREA — home of largest cellphone maker in the world—iPhone accounts for 14% and is the #1 selling model of Smartphone! 29.9% in Great Britain, 19.8% in China after only one year, Australia: 35.7%, France: 20.3%, Italy: 12.8%. And remember, this is one company's three models against over 200 companies' over 500 models of Android phones and tablets! Yet the IOS devices were the # 1,2 &3 best selling devices in every one of these markets despite being the most expensive in those markets.
Absolutely no one buys Apple in my lower-class neighborhood (not surprisingly). But lots and lots of Android tablets purchased at Big Lots and WalMart (including mine — happy with it).
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