“Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems worldwide, combined for 92.3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 as Windows Phone crept past BlackBerry for 3rd place. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Android smartphone vendors and Apple shipped a total of 199.5 million units worldwide during 1Q13, up 59.1% from the 125.4 million units shipped during 1Q12.” Windows Phone doubles from a few to twice few, iOS loser market share as its growth is slower than that of the overall market. BlackBerry continues slide into irrelevance.
Most people you see on trains are using are using iPhones, easily the majority are iPhones. But they are only 17% apparently. What is it about the iPhone which makes the average people more prone to actually take out and use the apple smart phone so much much more than others!
I also see tons of blackberries being used! and they are now beneath windows
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Maybe iPhone is just more popular where you live? I see Samsungs most often, followed by dumphones, then iPhones.
Discourtesy?
iPhone market share in US and Canada is significantly higher than the rest of the world. I also see mostly iPhones around here (Victoria, Canada).
However, if you look at web usage stats they disagree wildly with device sold stats (with Apple getting a much higher share of web usage than would be expected given their sales), so it does seem that iPhone buyers actually use them more than Android buyers (likely due to low end Android devices that are being sold essentially as feature phones ).
Well…. If Android’s browsers were as good as Mobile Safari…
Firefox and Opera for android are superb, the problem is more likely to be the dumbphone replacement droids.
That, or iPhone users somehow still think it’s a status symbol, and not a reduced-feature device.
Ah…you would be mistaken….the iPhone users I know enjoy the ease of doing what they want or need to do on their device. It seems that some of the envious non iPhone types project their fashion statement hopes and dreams on the iPhone.
No… iPhone users just have to keep their device out for longer, because it takes more steps to actually perform tasks.
No…those of us who are experienced iPhone users get a hell of a lot done both professionally and personally…no need to root our device or jump through hoops, and being up to date with the latest iteration of the device’s OS is a piece of cake.
I didn’t root my Nexus and I am still on the latest generation of the OS.
You also think that doing a lot is the same as doing it faster.
Might just as well be due to the market segment that goes for Apple products. I’m pretty sure they’re mainly young people.
Well, you are on a train and you see blackberries being used. That kind of indicates that you are on a commuter train to a larger city. Larger cities have larger companies with more stringent requirements for business phones than smaller businesses. I think you may be seeing the effect of those policies, rather than a representative sample of smartphone use.
Jbso’s comment was spot on. We see what we see because of where we are. For example, Blackberry is huuuuge in London, and I’m not talking about the business side, I’m talking about normal, everyday people, teenagers, etc..
Really? I haven’t seen Blackberries used by people outside of corporate suits since 2008. Heck in my work place people thought I was crazy to not have one.
Few weeks ago I travelled into London for a conference, spotted a few blackberries on the tube, even more Androids, and a buttload of iPhones. I think the visibility of devices doesn’t follow the existence of them, but I wouldn’t want to say more without offending /somebody/.
Two words: “Conspicuous Consumption”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption
Ballmer doesn’t know anything best, by the way.
They do know that Android is Linux, don’t they?
Yeah, I initially thought the term ‘Linux’ in the article refers to X11-enabled mobile Linux OS, but then Ubuntu is put in the same group, which doesn’t fit in.
The only logical explanation I could come up with is: the darn article was written by business analysts without consulting a technologist of some sort.
Perhaps they meant (unknowingly) any linux-powered-os that’s not android.
It still kind of fits. Ubuntu is still using a different display server (I heard they’re developing their own) than Android, so you could assume that the term ‘Linux’ in the article = Not powered by Android display server.
I, for one, actually welcome this ‘separation’ between Android and Linux. The Play Store quality control is a joke compared to even the most volatile GNU/Linux distro repository/source-tree, so I’d rather not see Android being grouped alongside Linux in any category outside the kernel.
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Microsoft and Apple spend a lot of money for such articles. For ex. they give more to fight Linux than cancer.
Are tech companies required to give money to fight cancer?
Wow, it seems like Apple is happy just being mediocre. Android sucks up most of the market growth almost doubling devices over Q1 last year.
If trends continue we may see Apple ending up having to battle to keep their 2nd place position. WWSJD? (What Would Steve Jobs Do?)
Edited 2013-05-16 15:50 UTC
Thom’s Freudian slip exposes his anti Apple bias he likes to deny?
Why the down vote? People need to lighten up. This was one of the funniest things I’ve read on OSNews. (At least funny that was trying to be funny.) The “…from a few to twice few” is a comedy gem also.
Yeah, it surprised me too.
I think people only read the subject line and think ‘troll’.
And they do not realize ‘iOS loser’ is a verbatim typo from Thom.
Oh well…
Time for less boring alternatives to gain more traction.