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How dare you use logic.
![]() I've been sitting hear the last couple of days banned for the first time in my almost 7 years as a member for saying what everyone else was thinking. It was annoying me no one had picked up on what I posted above when I've seen that link being used as a bases of some sort of argument when it actually goes against what it was being used for.
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Hi, first of all that link you keep posting whenever there is a sales thread such as this; it's not really valid in this type of 'argument.' You see iOS had a several year head start against Android so of course it's going to dominate in terms of Smartphone usage.
No one is denying that iOS is the leader when compared to Android. But these last couple of threads in the mobile forums have been about the recent upturn of Android sales against iOS. Not who is winning overall since the first iPhone came out. I am afraid hard sales numbers are factual. These figures from uSwitch look like something done on the back of a fagpacket. Notice no one else is agreeing with them. Quote:
Most articles lately have shown Android to be either even or ahead now in terms of smartphone sales each month against the others. That is what is being discussed, so that link is invalid. Also if you must look at the data in that link is actually supports what people are saying about Android slowing gaining. It clearly shows in Eurpoe over the last year the number of iOS users dropped and Android increased. If you look at the UK statistics iOS dropped even further.
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A couple of years ago when I got a HTC Hero, I told people I had an Android phone. They would look at me and I would have to explain it's a Google phone. These days most people would understand what I'm saying, and a good number of them would have one too. I reckon in my in view 2010 was the turning point for Android. It's now being recognized more often as a serious alternative to the iOS and this is backed up by excellent sales figures last year.
I don't dispute that. What I do dispute is that one Android handset such as the HTC Desire is outselling the iPhone. It isn't. |
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Louisiana?
Probably in some US state where AT&T has a small footprint. ![]()
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Yes, but many of the iOS devices have been replaced and are no longer in use.
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The number of iOS users has not dropped, but increased. iPhone sales have increased a great deal in the last year. A massive increase in fact. More people are buying iPhones each year.
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Android phones are being activated at about 300,000 a day and iPhones (not iPads or iPod Touches) at 188,000 a day.
I don't dispute that. What I do dispute is that one Android handset such as the HTC Desire is outselling the iPhone. It isn't. |
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nice to see my lovely Desire in number one spot
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Actually the Atari STe was better by miles!!! I have a 4160 STe. Amiga OS is still being developed, and although a very niche OS does look rather niceQuote:
OK so someone has provided a link which suggest it has. Do we have one which shows otherwise? I'm not saying the figures are correct, I'm just saying do we have anything else to go on?
Which does confirm what Val is saying, namely that Android is outselling iOS, but for individual handsets Iphone outsells the best selling Android handset. |
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Sorry, I don't follow.
Maybe I worded that wrongly. That graph, I assume it shows marketshare? If so it clearly shows the iOS share is dropping. 16.24 million units, up 86 percent from 8.74 million units a year earlier. Quote:
OK so someone has provided a link which suggest it has. Do we have one which shows otherwise? I'm not saying the figures are correct, I'm just saying do we have anything else to go on?
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Apple's market share is expected to hit 19% this year and HTCs 12% so while Android will be larger than Apple, HTC will not sell more phones than the iPhone. Apple will replace Nokia as the largest manufacturer of Smartphones.
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That's an interesting set of figures, and no surprise given the general superiority of the Desire to other phones which just don't seem able to keep the pace.
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Interesting comments about being Force-fed Android. I never thought about it like that but it's actually very true
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Interesting comments about being Force-fed Android. I never thought about it like that but it's actually very true
![]() I've always enjoyed the choice of going between Nokia, Sony Ericsson. Samsung for there own software. Android had to become standard as they required a platform to challenge Apple on the app Market. But remember unlike Apple the quality of the actual phone depends on what you buy. I genuinely think people buy Android ready phones for the features or design over the platform. However Blackberry also have the same in common with Apple they go for design and OS like Blackberry messenger. So when you buy your next Android you won't know what to expect next year unlike Apple constantly updating it's phones. |
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Interesting comments about being Force-fed Android. I never thought about it like that but it's actually very true
![]() You still have a choice of iOS, WebOS, Symbian, Windows 7 phone, samsungs own software, SE's own software and Android. So who exactly is force fed? People still have the choice of all of them yet seem to want to jump onto Android. |
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"expected to" does not equate to fact. More "piffle". Must try harder.
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What you said was that the numbers using iOS were dropping, that isn't the case. They are up 86% over the last year.
16.24 million units, up 86 percent from 8.74 million units a year earlier. |
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I know, what was I thinking?
I've been sitting hear the last couple of days banned for the first time in my almost 7 years as a member for saying what everyone else was thinking. It was annoying me no one had picked up on what I posted above when I've seen that link being used as a bases of some sort of argument when it actually goes against what it was being used for. It seems someone was obsessed with a post of mine and felt a compulsion to report me, they dissed me which I thought was out of order. What happened to the good old days of jolly banter? Red, this is what happens when you hit a raw nerve on another member, for some the truth hurts. |
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I've been sitting hear the last couple of days banned for the first time in my almost 7 years as a member for saying what everyone else was thinking. It was annoying me no one had picked up on what I posted above when I've seen that link being used as a bases of some sort of argument when it actually goes against what it was being used for.

