I think you’re being sarcastic, but hard to tell. At any rate, there are better phones than iphones, particularly when you factor in the cost of the phone and related services. Apple never cornered the market on phones even though they want people to believe they did.
I think "Better" is a relative term. Some folks like some features better than others, which determine which way you go with a phone. Other folks, like me, get hand-me-downs. Wife has an iPhone 5. MIL, who lives with us has iPhone4.5. I have iPhone 4. When wife upgrades to iPhone6, I'll have a 4.5, and MIL will have 5.
if I were buying one new for myself, I'd probably go with an android, because I like having a removable micro-SD card. To me, that's the differentiating feature that would make the difference. It did when I bought a tablet. Is it important enough for me to buy a new phone when this one works perfectly fine? No.
Nope, not at all.
Took me a long time to get my first iPhone.
Used to have nV phones.
Made a big mistake if getting a Brigade. Never worked right.
When Apple finally came out with a Verizon phone, I got one and never looked back.
I have lots of friends who have tried the Samsung options. Not impressed.
No, Kirkwood, they don't even want to "corner the market on phones." They don't even compete in the low end of the cellular phone market. They've never even implied they've gone after "market share," because Apple is far happier taking home the lion's share of ALL cellular phone manufacturing profits! Jay Yarrow reports in the February 14, 2014, Business Insider:
Analyst Tavis McCourt at Raymond James estimates Apple has 87.4% of smartphone profits. (that's worldwide profits, Kirkwood — Swordmaker)The next closest is Samsung, with 32.2% of smartphone profits.
Yes, those numbers add up to over 100%. (119.6%—S) That's because everyone else is losing money, and so McCourt gives the rest of the world's phone makers negative profit share. — Apple Collects 87% Of All The Profits In The Smartphone Handset Industry
I should point out that McCourt is not the only analyst who has come to this astonishing conclusion. . . every conclusion from analysts who follow the cellular phone market's financial figures are in the same ballpark.
On the other Market Share hand, in the United States, Apple iPhones were the top selling brand, bar none, with 41.9% of the market last quarter, followed by Samsung at 27.8%, LG with 6.5%, then Motorola at 6.3%, and HTC at 5.1%. Yes, I know those total 45.7% which is more than Apple's 41.9%, but Apple is still the number one top selling brand in the US, regardless of irrelevancies like operating systems.
Incidentally, Kirkwood, in the same period Apple took home 53% of the worldwide personal computer market profits.
That's one of the reasons Apple Inc stock is selling for $102.50 per share ($717.50 pre split adjusted) an all time high!) and it's market cap value is $613.8 Billion, 44.7% higher than the market cap of Exxon Mobile, the second most valuable publicly traded company in the world.