andy97

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Android has 75% of all smartphone sales at the expense of all its competition

dpb

Quite a rise in relatively no time

JackClark

Android is free and people love cheap even if it's ****.

andy97

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Android is on the cusp of taking more than 50% in the tablet market. 4th quarter figures will probably reveal a surge. Then a march on desktop

People just love Android

jonc

Android just works.

drb5

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Android is simply used on any smart phone apart from a couple "others".

So with that, it comes as no surprise to me....

A certain OS doesn't make me want to buy a specific phone. I buy a phone cause i want it and not simply because of the OS.

jasey

Pretty sure IO$hit is free too - well they couldn't charge for it surely

jonc

Spoken like a true Apple fanboy! Doesn't matter what it does just as long as it looks good and makes me look cool.

Gear Head

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every1sgottablue1

I refuse to become one of the I phone brigade! Android is much better IMO.

ScoobySteve69

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This is no surprise really...far superior to anything else.

boxst

Android is okay, the 'market leader' bit is a little misleading. My daughter has a Samsung Galaxy Y which is great, but not really anywhere close to an iPhone (or in fact a Galaxy II/III) but is still included in those figures ...

It is good for everyone (users, developers) to have a standard platform to develop and have some competition in iOS ..

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Are you being deliberately inaccurate to provoke debate?

You really think those that bought Androids did so AT THE EXPENSE of other smartphones? I'm pretty sure much of that 75% market share will be low priced handsets that no-other platform has a presence in.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

The fallacy of popularity - it's popular therefore it's the best.

Cases in point: 1 Direction, X Factor, The Sun, Peter Andre, Android OS

JackClark

Andy just cut and pastes **** he finds on the internet. He has no personal opinion and that's OK by me as he comes across as a dunce.

andy97

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Whether low price or high end devices, Android has a massive 75% of global market share, much like earlier version of apples device which are the low end and their i5 is their flagship.

Jack's delusional response is to ignore the data, or are you Sheldon today

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

I have not questioned the 75% figure, I am simply questioning your assertion that this came at the expense of other platforms, which I think is not accurate.

fivetide

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I think it does come at the expense of others.

Quality aside, Microsoft Surface will struggle because it needs the apps to go on it. Now, when writing new apps do you write them for 75% of the market or a niche sector?

The danger for others is that like surface (I'm avoiding Apple on purpose) that they are in danger of becoming Betamax or HD-DVD.

dpb

You believe symbian would be up there?

DYK

Bring it on.....

Neanderthal

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Yet another Andy(Android)97 thread...

As Fivetide says, it would be a shame if the dominance of one OS does hinder innovations (or at best a different way of doing things). I really do hope Surface does well, not particularly because I want one, but welcome the diversity in the marketplace.
I suppose the key for the surface is whether MS can make the porting of Android/iOS apps relatively simple for developers, that way it won't be a case of "lets just cater for the majority, lets do the Android/iOS first then port it, covering 100% of the potential market"?

drb5

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Not really. I owned a Desire for a while and found it infuriating from the start. Missus got a 3GS and it blew me away how crisp, responsive and smart it was. It was enough for me to convince me the Android phone wasn't for me.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Well, it's decline would be less significant had the Elocopalypse not happened. Nokia can blame him more than Android for their loss of global share.

I think the bigger change in market has been those moving from cheap feature phones to cheap smartphones (Android) that these consumers otherwise would not have done other than due the cost of these low end devices.

Hence I do not think it has come at the expense of rival smartphones.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Alternatively, a prospective developer may instead think, "Do I write yet another news app on a platform that already has thousands of competitor apps, or do I risk a smaller market but a larger exposure to it in the form of less competition".

It's less about the market share, and more about how many people will actually see your app, and with such a crowded market place these two are not the same thing. Plus the spending power of the typical user is different for each platform, with iOS users spending more on apps than Android (I don't have the research to hand but could provide it).

It's not all about market share is what I'm saying I guess

Tidgy

good to see the isheep are straight on the attack in the thread,,,, lol