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  • zarkonite0

    http://adage.com/article/digital…

    "Apple plummeted 36% to $107 billion in 2016, the report said, while Google jumped to $109.4 billion, up from $88.2 billion in 2015."

    • Interestingly, they just bumped Samsung to take the top spot in smartphone share after record iPhone sales and quarterly profits.monospaced
    • ^ I assume that is US only though, not global.ETM
    • no, it's globalmonospaced
    • It's for the 4th quarter only, they're second for the year's total. Although the real metric is Android vs iOS imho.zarkonite
    • The brand's value is a telling sign that Apple has lost some of its veneer, they're having an increasingly harder time launching products with success.zarkonite
    • Lately I'd be hard pressed to see a real major advantage of apple's products over the competition, and we're all slowly realizing we don't have to spend topzarkonite
    • dollars for a quality phone anymore.zarkonite
    • Thank god Google came out with a cheap phone then, to save us from the top dollar phones Apple forces people to buy. Oh, wait...monospaced
    • Google Pixel is such a badass phone - I have the big one. It's superb. And yes it is premium price but it's trying to be the top end Android leader.fadein11
    • dooooomed! oh wait...inteliboy
    • If you want a decent Android phone but without the hellish price tag, the Moto Z Play is worth looking into. Battery for days.face_melter
    • lol 1st quarter 2017 isn't even out tho so there's no way to know thatmonospaced

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