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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