News - Apple pulling away as Google releases Android 3.2

[HEXUS]

Smartphones currently a two-horse race as Android tries to improve tablet offering.

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[chris_argyle]

I would imagine the "anomalous spike" would coincide with the release of the iPhone 4, and it looks like the spike is an annual occurrence, like apples phone launches, with the incremental 3GS only peaking a little compared to the 3G and 4.

[Scott B]

I would imagine the "anomalous spike" would coincide with the release of the iPhone 4, and it looks like the spike is an annual occurrence, like apples phone launches, with the incremental 3GS only peaking a little compared to the 3G and 4.

I reckon you're right, although that last one seemed especially exaggerated.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

"We note that this survey focuses primarily on the North American smart phone market – with the sample being 89% U.S. respondents and 11% outside the U.S."

The US is most of the world,surely not???

""4,163 consumers"

For a worldwide survey,it is quite a small number of people TBH!

Anyway,suprisingly enough the Samsung Galaxy S II has still not been released in the US.

[aidanjt]

"We note that this survey focuses primarily on the North American smart phone market – with the sample being 89% U.S. respondents and 11% outside the U.S."

The US is most of the world,surely not???

""4,163 consumers"

For a worldwide survey,it is quite a small number of people TBH!

Anyway,suprisingly enough the Samsung Galaxy S II has still not been released in the US.

I love the smell of baked statistics in the morning!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The thing is though is though it seems Android market share in the US has increased this year according to this data derived from a survey of 30000 users:

http://adtmag.com/articles/2011/07/0...ng-growth.aspx

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-20068677-251.html

As of May 2011,Android has 38.1% of the US smartphone market and Apple has 26.6% of the smartphone market according to the survey.

[jjgreenwood]

having owned all these devices I've concluded the following

phone = blackberry/nokia due to battery life
laptop = apple due to design and battery life
tablet = apple - see laptop
desktop = windows pc

[miniyazz]

Just today at work someone tried to use their shiny new iPad 2 to show a presentation on a mahoosive TV, and failed. They commented that it had worked on their laptop previously.


11% of people outside the US? It hardly seems worth bothering with. That's maybe two people per country, since they didn't specify whereabouts outside the US. Great.

And this study seems to focus on what people would rather have as their new phone rather than what they're actually going to buy.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

In June 2011,Android has 45% of the UK market,57% of the US market and around 65% of the Japanese market:

http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/...s-to-18-3.html

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Just today at work someone tried to use their shiny new iPad 2 to show a presentation on a mahoosive TV, and failed. They commented that it had worked on their laptop previously.


11% of people outside the US? It hardly seems worth bothering with. That's maybe two people per country, since they didn't specify whereabouts outside the US. Great.

And this study seems to focus on what people would rather have as their new phone rather than what they're actually going to buy.

At work, during a meeting, the guys macbook diddnt work for the conference meeting so he had to use a windows laptop.

My other co worker is using a macbook and he couldnt get skype working on it.

[redddraggon]

At work, during a meeting, the guys macbook diddnt work for the conference meeting so he had to use a windows laptop.

My other co worker is using a macbook and he couldnt get skype working on it.

Things like that generally come down to user incompetence rather than hardware deficiencies.

[aidanjt]

But I thought OS X/iOS devices Just Works™?! Apple doesn't have PEBKAC because Apple has already anticipated your every whim!

[redddraggon]

But I thought OS X/iOS devices Just Works™?! Apple doesn't have PEBKAC because Apple has already anticipated your every whim!

Mac OS X and iOS are no way near as good as the fanboys try to make them out to be,

[hermano pequeño]

Mac OS X and iOS are no way near as good as the fanboys try to make them out to be,

I agree OSX and iOS should be viewed merely as "an attempt to make things make sense" and Apple have done OK. MacOSX could be greatly improved and being given a run for their money by a competing OS, which was intuitive and which enables an average user to appear competent, might cause Apple to pull their socks up a but more. If we view Windows as the competition however, all the "competition" is doing is make Apple OS look good.

Apple Fanboys aren't so much into evangelising their own favoured OS (perhaps the more annoying ones are), they're more incredulous that so many choose to struggle with something so counter-intuitive. It's not that Mac OS is so good, just that Windows is perceived as so bloody awful.

[crossy]

having owned all these devices I've concluded the following

phone = blackberry/nokia due to battery life
laptop = apple due to design and battery life
tablet = apple - see laptop
desktop = windows pc

Nice run-down, here's my equivalent:
phone = Sony the case design, Nokia everything else. Not that bothered about OS just as long as I'm not forced to get iTunes on a WindowsPC.
laptop = intel based, not apple because they're way too expensive. (oh and my old Dell 620 gets 3.5hrs+ on a single charge). OS I'm not bothered about - mine runs Ubuntu.
tablet = not sure here, iPad2 is probably a no-brainer for most folks, but I don't regret buying my Asus Transformer (had it two weeks, charged it twice and the battery's never fallen below 80%) and I get to use it as a netbook too - something not really possible with iPads
desktop = linux pc or a windows one if I need to play games (I have both).

Back to the survey - so Android falls well behind on "buying intention" but still seems to be packing in the punters (even in the US-of-A)? Does this mean that BillyBob and co are aspiring to an iPhone, but when the time comes to put dem greenbacks-on-the-desk that they're going 'droid? Surely that's the inescapable conclusion - that, or the alternative being that folks lie on these surveys?

[redddraggon]

(oh and my old Dell 620 gets 3.5hrs+ on a single charge).

Bit poor that