Nielson Research says that 1 in 3 smartphones worldwide is an iPhone—PING! From a well research comment on the article:
- 365 million iOS devices vs 300 million Android
- 84% of mobile gaming revenue captured by iOS (NewZoo)
- 90% of e-commerce revenue comes from iOS devices (Rich Relevance)
- 97.3% of business tablet activations are iPad (Good Technologies)
- 63% mobile web browser share iOS vs 19% Android (NetMarketshare)
- 69% of mobile web share is iOS vs 29% for Android (Chitika)
- 80% of cellular industry profits captured by iPhone (Morgan Keegan)
- iPhone developer revenue 400% of Android phone revenue (Distimo)
- IOS developer revenue 6x Android dev revenue (Distimo)
- New iOS app starts increased from 63% to 73% marketshare (Flurry)
- Developer mindshare: 89% iPhone, iPad at 88%, Android phones 78.6%, Android tablets 65.9% (Appcelerator)
- 78% of smartphones at AT&T, 76% at Sprint and 51% at Verizon are iPhones Q1 2012. These 3 carriers make up 80% of of smartphones sold in the USA
- vast majority of 3rd party hardware peripherals, accessories, media and content target iOS devices
Etc etc. In contrast, like Symbian before it, all Android has to show is smartphone unit sales share and we all know what happened to Symbian.
This is why Apple is on top.
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Hi Swordmaker,
Apple will continue to lead the market, occasionally with a big splash but mostly by quietly producing and selling products that are, most of the time, demonstrably higher quality, more innovative, better executed, etc. than the competition's. The competition often makes good products too, of course. But Apple seems to maintain their "leg up" regardless. Isn't that what companies are supposed to try to achieve in the marketplace?
The days where Apple-haters could argue that only deluded Apple fanboys bought Apple products are long, long gone. Either that or a very large percentage of the world's population has become Apple fanboys. Meanwhile...
"...iPhones cost about the same as competing products..."
Oh, no, say it isn't so!! That was the last of the Apple-haters' arguments against getting an iPhone! I guess that they'll have to fall back on the discredited lies about Chinese working conditions. Oh, wait... I see from this thread that indeed they are... It's such a shame that the haters are so unhappy with their ability to purchase whichever product they desire, in a free marketplace, and must instead trash one or another of them instead. It's a shame they are such discontented people.
When I go to buy something, I generally assess the available products and purchase the one that suits my needs best. While I may sing the praises of what I choose, I honestly can't understand the motivation to trash those I don't choose, unless I have sufficient personal experience with them to warrant the trashing.
DISCLAIMER: I don't have a dog in this fight:
I don't have an iPhone, nor any other "smartphone". I have an LG VX5500 "stupidphone" (so-called "feature phone"), which suits me just fine. I doubt I will purchase or use a smartphone any time soon, since my stupidphone does exactly what I want in a phone, no less, no more, flawlessly.