V-Tech Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 The past quarter has been a very good one for Android and IDC now estimates that Google?s mobile platform accounted for nearly 80% of all smartphones shipped in Q2 2013. But there?s one place where iOS has been stubbornly resilient and has kept Android largely at bay: In the United States. Asymco?s Horace Dediu took a look at the latest numbers from comScore and found some evidence that Android has for now peaked in the U.S., as its growth stalled over the past quarter and the number of American Android users actually declined for the first time ever. ?The pattern of Android ?peaking? has been evident for some time,? wrote Dediu. ?Even though share stopped growing about a year ago, Android continued to gain users as overall smartphone consumption increased. The last few months however have shown a slowing of new smartphone users and therefore we have this first instance of Android appearing to lose usage.? Of course, Apple knows that it can?t rely solely on American consumers to keep growing worldwide, which is why it?s likely releasing a budget version of its iPhone targeted toward consumers in key emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil. But even if its ambitions in emerging markets fall short, the company can feel happy that it has a very strong and profitable firewall in America. http://bgr.com/2013/08/08/ios-android-american-market-share/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted August 8, 2013 Member Share Posted August 8, 2013 Nearly everyone I know has an iPhone. They look at my Note II like it's from some strange planet when I haul it out. It just amazes me no end. WAQT, TCA, link6155 and 5 others 8 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted August 8, 2013 Veteran Share Posted August 8, 2013 Nearly everyone I know has an iPhone. They look at my Note II like it's from some strange planet when I haul it out. It just amazes me no end. I'm getting so sick of people telling me "get your iPhone out".... it's not an iPhone.... "yes it is" *rips out hair* it's like telling someone get your iPad out when they mean tablet....... Iridium, TCA, nvllsvm and 5 others 8 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Nearly everyone I know has an iPhone. They look at my Note II like it's from some strange planet when I haul it out. It just amazes me no end. Yep most of the people I know have an iPhone. These people preach it like there is no better product out there. :s To each their own, but it's nice having something that is different and the HTC One gets a lot of attention from these iPhone users. They're more impressed by how smooth the device is and its' features. TCA, Iridium, Raa and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted August 8, 2013 MVC Share Posted August 8, 2013 A few weeks ago at one of the local bars, I looked around me and 99% of the people had an iPhone in their hand. The female bartender upgrade from an Android phone to an iPhone because "Everyone else had one" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcfan Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 a lot of americans think of android phones as a poor mans iphone,even though there are much better phones than iphones. WAQT, Duffydemon, Charisma and 4 others 7 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJerman Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Hmm... I dunno. Most people I know have Android phones I think. It may be a pretty even split on iPhones and Android. It seems like most of the girls I know have iPhones, and most of the guys have Androids. astropheed, Raa and Sadelwo 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mugwump00 Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 This is eye-opening. The tide has evidently turned in the UK. Don't tell the media tho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 a lot of americans think of android phones as a poor mans iphone,even though there are much better phones than iphones. I don't think that's necessarily true. People here are always in a hurry and want to be productive as fast of possible. With that said, the iPhone is about as simple as it gets, and people like that. Plus if somebody upgrades to a newer model, the UI is exactly the same making it a seamless transition. On Android, if you upgrade to a phone from a different company, you likely have to relearn where everything is. Plus most Android phones come with annoying amounts of bloat. A few of my friends took the dive to the Lumia 920, but have grown to hate the lack of apps. Overall people here like the simplicity of the iPhone. These are just things I've picked up on from talking to various people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threetonesun Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I've said this in other threads, but iOS and the iPhone wasn't just the beginning of the smartphone, it was a completely different model where the phone manufacturer controlled the OS and updates entirely. I have nothing against the Android operating system itself, but tying the phone to a carrier and a manufacturer seems antithetical to the idea of a smartphone. On top of that, I think fragmented hardware and software doesn't help much with selling phone by word of mouth. WAQT 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seta-san Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I got my windows 8 phone and couldn't be happier with it. firebelly, norseman, Lord Method Man and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcfan Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I don't think that's necessarily true. People here are always in a hurry and want to be productive as fast of possible. With that said, the iPhone is about as simple as it gets, and people like that. Plus if somebody upgrades to a newer model, the UI is exactly the same making it a seamless transition. On Android, if you upgrade to a phone from a different company, you likely have to relearn where everything is. Plus most Android phones come with annoying amounts of bloat. A few of my friends took the dive to the Lumia 920, but have grown to hate the lack of apps. Overall people here like the simplicity of the iPhone. These are just things I've picked up on from talking to various people. i dont know. this is what usually happens. person 1: "hey show me that picture from your iphone" person 2: pulls out android phone person 1: "oh...." rollseyes..avoids person for life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I don't think that's necessarily true. People here are always in a hurry and want to be productive as fast of possible. With that said, the iPhone is about as simple as it gets, and people like that. Plus if somebody upgrades to a newer model, the UI is exactly the same making it a seamless transition. On Android, if you upgrade to a phone from a different company, you likely have to relearn where everything is. Plus most Android phones come with annoying amounts of bloat. If you stick with the same Android OEM, the UI remains pretty constant. This includes switching to a different carrier. Plus, I have never found any Android UI difficult to use/learn. Some are just annoying. psmoked, WAQT and AJerman 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 i dont know. this is what usually happens. person 1: "hey show me that picture from your iphone" person 2: pulls out android phone person 1: "oh...." rollseyes..avoids person for life I normally get "wow, my iPhone cannot do that" when comparing my phone to someone elses iPhone. lukeslife, Charisma, oliver182 and 2 others 5 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 i dont know. this is what usually happens. person 1: "hey show me that picture from your iphone" person 2: pulls out android phone person 1: "oh...." rollseyes..avoids person for life Nah, physically people aren't judgmental based on a phone. That's just silly. Here on the anonymous interwebs, it's a different story though. Denis W. 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 thinking of moving to Android... i love wp8.. but the feature gap with Android is getting too much to ignore. neo1911, Raa, f0rk_b0mb and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcfan Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Nah, physically people aren't judgmental based on a phone. That's just silly. Here on the anonymous interwebs, it's a different story though. i personally avoid apple users at all costs..for real :D javagreen 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 i personally avoid apple users at all costs..for real :D Awww come on, we're all just trying to have a good time. :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneNutter MVC Posted August 8, 2013 MVC Share Posted August 8, 2013 I've noticed something in my workplace, everyone in there 40's, 50's or 60's has an iPhone. Then the few of us in our 20's or early 30's have an Android. Might be an age thing, as a lot of my older relatives in the family have an iPhone, yet my cousins have Android's or Blackberry's. I remember a couple of years ago a lot of my mates had iPhones (or wanted one), that seems to have gradually changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iridium Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Um a few things: 1) This is the country that thought that Blackberry was revolutionary because most had never seen a top end Nokia 2) This is the country that has pagers while most of the world was already texting. 3) This is the country where people still commonly use cheques like its 1995. 4) This is the country where the govt actively protects Apple and other US companies in a very nationalistic borderline facist way, while allowing its own companies to break WTO free trade agreements and use crap like geographic price gouging on said "ally" nations. javagreen, f0rk_b0mb, Kondrath and 6 others 9 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BajiRav Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I guess it's mostly due to subsidized iPhones, price a major factor in rest of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margrave Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Of everyone I know, friends family, co-workers, and whatnot, no one has a WinPhone. No one. I've never seen anyone even owning one where I work, shop or anywhere. I've never seen them except for still on the shelves. Just my personal experience here in the U.S.A. ... +Asmodai and astropheed 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defiantly Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I dunno if flooding the market with hundreds of different inexpensive android devices that run many different versions of an os and hardware specs qualifies as "crushing" a single device line. WAQT and Dashel 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted August 8, 2013 Veteran Share Posted August 8, 2013 i dont know. this is what usually happens. person 1: "hey show me that picture from your iphone" person 2: pulls out android phone person 1: "oh...." rollseyes..avoids person for life What kind of idiots you know that judge you for the phone you use? Astra.Xtreme, astropheed and benthebear 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJerman Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I've noticed something in my workplace, everyone in there 40's, 50's or 60's has an iPhone. Then the few of us in our 20's or early 30's have an Android. Might be an age thing, as a lot of my older relatives in the family have an iPhone, yet my cousins have Android's or Blackberry's. I remember a couple of years ago a lot of my mates had iPhones (or wanted one), that seems to have gradually changed. It does seem like it. iPhones are more popular amongst the non-tech crowd that need something simple to use. Both of my parents, the girls I mentioned earlier, etc. Most of the rest of the crowd has moved on to Android at this point. The iPhone is important for that reason though. It's simple enough for anyone to use with little to no direction. Of everyone I know, friends family, co-workers, and whatnot, no one has a WinPhone. No one. I've never seen anyone even owning one where I work, shop or anywhere. I've never seen them except for still on the shelves. Just my personal experience here in the U.S.A. ... Oh yeah, no one has a Windows Phone. I've known one person ever to have a Windows Phone, and he hated it. I think the OS has potential, but the UI needs a lot of work. I dunno if flooding the market with hundreds of different inexpensive android devices that run many different versions of an os and hardware specs qualifies as "crushing" a single device line. Use whatever justification you need, I'm pretty sure 80% to 13% and shipping 6 times as many devices qualifies as "crushing" to pretty much anyone who knows math. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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