Android to own 50% of smartphone marketshare by 2012
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- jon_d0
it's that time of night in the east coast ... of the... us.
eastern standard time I think..
anyways it's that kind of night.
- jon_d0
i mean it's that time of night.
- vaxorcist0
win7 phones = 18%. ..wtf?!?.. maybe a ton of discount nokia phones, and/or corporate IT depts forcing people to use them rather than blackberries if MS somehow integrates them into Winblows IT dept stuff....
and yes, I have a motorola Q9m, an old windows phone, it's ok...
- animatedgif0
Some nerd talks his mom into buying an Android phone, with hilarious consequences
- Seems more of an issue of Verizon and Charge being a shit phone not Android.Boz
- and consumers are supposed to understand the difference?animatedgif
- raf0
30-40% Of Android Phones Are Returned To The Store
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/26…
- ESKEMA0
Apple makes thoughtful products top to bottom, 1 handset per year (so far) with integrated OS. It's 1 company with 1 handset.
Android is a platform, open to any manufacturer (so far).
It's Apple vs everybody else, I mean, who would think apple would rule smartphone market share? They never did and never will. And I'm pretty sure that's not their goal.
It's basically the same as desktop, little market share but with the highest profits.
The only market share they have above the others is ipod and ipad, because they basically introduced the products to a non existent market, and they will keep it theirs. On the phone side, they entered a really though ground and managed to keep climbing the ladder by themselves. I think it's pretty impressive to get where they are now, I always thought the iphone would be a small niche like mac vs pc.
Anyone who would think they could rule all smartphone market share is nuts to begin with.- not really.. I've been told that iOS will dominate the mobile market for years now.. and they will end up being nothing really in the long run.Boz
- in the long run.Boz
- who told you that is an idiotESKEMA
- Also, you're a fucking RETARD if you think they'll "end up being nothing," Bozmonospaced
- jadrian_uk0
Android will OWN OWN because it is democratic
- chrisRG0
^ ;)
Anyone who falls for the swoosh kool-aid is a fucking idiot. I will be laughing my fucking ass off when 'Apple' goes down because it's so obvious that 'Google' are better. They make you run faster, but because they aren't a marketing giant like 'Apple' they will not grow as fast. Next year 'Google' will outsell 'Apple' and take more than half the marketshare and anyone wearing 'Apple' will look like a fool!
- ukit0
It's a triumph of capitalist system that people now argue over which corporation and brand they'd rather give their money to
- << indeed. triumph of excellent marketing and branding too. for that you have to applaud apple. customer loyalty like no other.Hombre_Lobo
- ben_0
Now if only I could update my Samsung Galaxy S to the new os...
- monospaced0
Congratulations. Basically, by next year, they believe that finally several companies combined, with probably 30 different phone models and a handful of OS versions, will finally catch up to what a single phone and company has done. You say this as if Apple is just going to stop innovating.
- monospaced0
Boz, you act as if Apple's success is a personal attack against you.
- how so?Boz
- loltgqt
- Because you wrote "I told you so" as if you were being attacked by Apple. It's very juvenile.monospaced
- You take it so personally that you have to write "Hate to say..." even though you love it. You are defensive FOR Android. It's pathetic.monospaced
- Android. It's pathetic, yet entertaining.monospaced
- loltgqt
- antagonista0
Jeez, I go out for a few drinks, come back and the Bozter has gone postal. Usually when you confront a liar, that's when they get the most angry. Bingo.
- Boz0
Beautiful beautiful phone that looks NOTHING like iOS.. it's absolutely 100% Android .. TouchWiz is too cheesy so Cyanogen firmware fixes that but god that phone is what iPhone 5 can only dream to be.
The packaging is actually pretty simple.. Nothing like Apple's.
- It's not the same, but to say it's "nothing like iOS" is just idiotic. There are some obvious similarities.Nathan_Adams
- Packaging, UI, display, physical size, weight, etc... a lot like the iPhone...utopian
- How about that awesome typography on the box... hahahahahahaantagonista
- it freakin' looks and moves like an iphone. just worse. its a cloneomg
- antagonista0
"I am a creative director, a web developer and a Flash Platform evangelist"
i"m not a "Flash Evangelist"Facts are stubborn things. At least go remove it from your blog so you can then deny it ever existed when you posted your next "the Apple world is ending" thread.
Poor ukit gets verbally assault for pointing out the obvious.
- tgqt0
I'm happy to be and android and ios user.
Two awesome toolsets. How lucky to have a choice.
Thanks for the link Boz....the Microsoft 2015 numbers are a surprise, but considering how much I can do on a phone/tablet these days they had better get moving as this is the new desktop.
- monospaced0
What's "Crazy!" Boz, is that you're getting fanatical about fucking predictions for years from now. They're nothing more than that, so your issues with people making bold predictions about Apple are really ungrounded since you're doing the same by hyping up predictions about other companies. Windows phone with 20% in 4 years? ANYTHING can happen in that time frame.
- seeessess0
IT'S ONLY A PHONE