Android Commands Over Half of U.S. Smartphone Market

[zakislam]

Google's mobile platform claims 52.6 percent of market.

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[Guest]

Hmm those numbers don't add up to 100... The May-12 column is missing 0.7% somewhere and the Aug-12 column is missing 0.5%. This may not seem like much but that's the equivalent of the Symbian market share.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]Daki[/nom]Hmm those numbers don't add up to 100... The May-12 column is missing 0.7% somewhere and the Aug-12 column is missing 0.5%. This may not seem like much but that's the equivalent of the Symbian market share.[/citation]
Because there are other operating systems beside those mentioned. It means that in May, .7% of smartphones are using other OS's and in August that percentage went down to .5%.

 

[kartu]

Let me translate that to you:
Galaxy III sales are TWICE that of Galaxy II sales.
Apple's first weekend iPhone 5 sales are TWO TIMES LOWER than expected by analysts.
So they need to do something about it, besides suing. So here you go with"oh it's +2%".

At the same time, Apple's share is magically on 34% mark, when it's hardware only covers 17% of the market.

Could someone, cough, enlighten us, which other manufacturer sells hardware with iOS?
/facepalm

 

[booyaah]

Can anyone say, yesterday's news?

 

[zaroth105]

[citation][nom]kartu[/nom]Let me translate that to you:Galaxy III sales are TWICE that of Galaxy II sales.Apple's first weekend iPhone 5 sales are TWO TIMES LOWER than expected by analysts.So they need to do something about it, besides suing. So here you go with"oh it's +2%".At the same time, Apple's share is magically on 34% mark, when it's hardware only covers 17% of the market. Could someone, cough, enlighten us, which other manufacturer sells hardware with iOS?/facepalm[/citation]

Read the charts. The top is the Smartphone market and the bottom is Smartphone and Non-Smartphone market. Apple has different shares in these markets. Not a difficult concept.

/facepalm

 

[robochump]

iPhone 5 supplies could not keep up with demand thus lower than expected sales even thought the iP5 initial sales far outpaced the iP4/4S.

I would expect the Android platform to have a dominant share of the market since it is an OS available to all smart phone companies to use. Google has done a great job with Android. This also goes for smart phone OEMs Samsung and LG offer a wide range of devices, some good and some not so much. Apple, one iOS and one smart phone but Apple does it very very well.

Good to see Android doing so well since it does in fact owe its existence to Apple iOS. So this is innovation feeding off each other Sure the iHaters will not admit it but its fact.

 

[STravis]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom]iPhone 5 supplies could not keep up with demand thus lower than expected sales even thought the iP5 initial sales far outpaced the iP4/4S. I would expect the Android platform to have a dominant share of the market since it is an OS available to all smart phone companies to use. Google has done a great job with Android. This also goes for smart phone OEMs Samsung and LG offer a wide range of devices, some good and some not so much. Apple, one iOS and one smart phone but Apple does it very very well.Good to see Android doing so well since it does in fact owe its existence to Apple iOS. So this is innovation feeding off each other Sure the iHaters will not admit it but its fact.[/citation]

The other way to look at it is that all the SmarPhone manufacturers (Samsung/LG/HTC/etc) own 50% of the smarphone market amongst them. Apple owns 30-34% with one model of phone. There's a reason Apple is sitting on $$$B in cash.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom]Good to see Android doing so well since it does in fact owe its existence to Apple iOS. So this is innovation feeding off each other Sure the iHaters will not admit it but its fact.[/citation]

Apple Drone spotted.

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom].Good to see Android doing so well since it does in fact owe its existence to Apple iOS. So this is innovation feeding off each other Sure the iHaters will not admit it but its fact.[/citation]
Android was created in 2003, acquired by Google in 2005 etc. That why us "iHaters" (as you trollingly call us) will not admit it.
Get your facts straight, instead of pulling stuff out of your ***.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]STravis[/nom]The other way to look at it is that all the SmarPhone manufacturers (Samsung/LG/HTC/etc) own 50% of the smarphone market amongst them. Apple owns 30-34% with one model of phone. There's a reason Apple is sitting on $$$B in cash.[/citation]
I didn't knew that the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 equaled to one model.

 

[olaf]

[citation][nom]kartu[/nom]Let me translate that to you:Galaxy III sales are TWICE that of Galaxy II sales.Apple's first weekend iPhone 5 sales are TWO TIMES LOWER than expected by analysts.So they need to do something about it, besides suing. So here you go with"oh it's +2%".At the same time, Apple's share is magically on 34% mark, when it's hardware only covers 17% of the market. Could someone, cough, enlighten us, which other manufacturer sells hardware with iOS?/facepalm[/citation]

first off, the second chart sais top Smartphone & Non-Smartphone, see the magic NON word there ?
Also, THERE IS NO IPHONE 5 IN THE CHARTS, it say august 12 , correct me if im wrong but the latest icrap is a september issue, to note is the fact that android has a lot of budget phones, and that is especially true of Samsung, they have a boat load of crappy cheap phones in the smart and the not so smart market
Also the 2% gain for Apple is probably due to the low price at wich the icrap4 was tossed at people

 

[varun270588]

[citation][nom]house70[/nom]Android was created in 2003, acquired by Google in 2005 etc. That why us "iHaters" (as you trollingly call us) will not admit it.Get your facts straight, instead of pulling stuff out of your ***.[/citation
its not apple drone spotted its apple idrone

 

[DaveBG01]

Good to see the best mobile OS is also most popular. Faith in humanity - RESTORED!

 

[phyco126]

[citation][nom]otacon72[/nom]Um there are what 1,000 different Android models out there and only 3 iPhone models..lol 3 devices have 34% market share while 1,000 devices have 53%....just makes me laugh. Moving on..[/citation]

There are 6 models of iPhone.... And approximately around 200 models of Android smart phones (Give or take a few). Sure there are more Android's out there. Its all about consumer choice. Sadly, while some gravitate towards one or the other for good reasons, its often about being sheep.

 

[robochump]

[citation][nom]house70[/nom]Android was created in 2003, acquired by Google in 2005 etc. That why us "iHaters" (as you trollingly call us) will not admit it.Get your facts straight, instead of pulling stuff out of your ***.[/citation]

Yeah, and what did Android look like before iOS?!? Exactly.

 

[DaveBG01]

[citation][nom]house70[/nom]Android was created in 2003, acquired by Google in 2005 etc. That why us "iHaters" (as you trollingly call us) will not admit it.Get your facts straight, instead of pulling stuff out of your ***.[/citation]

Yeah, and what did Android look like before iOS?!? Exactly.

On the hardware back then it looked way better than iOS ever could.