Comments on: Android’s Web share down 13% since November; Apple’s iOS now over 60%

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:52:04 +0000

I missed the inauguration coverage. Probably was on Pintrest, Facebook, or Twitter.

Thanks for the recap.

By: qka

qka — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:12:39 +0000

+∞

By: crabapple

crabapple — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:11:17 +0000

oooOOh! yes they Can!!

By: pjorio

pjorio — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:52:27 +0000

Good news for Apple everywhere but stock goes down….go figure….

By: MBBM

MBBM — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:39:50 +0000

Harsh, but many good points were made. I’d love to see what would happen if the price of all cellphones were temporarily brought on par with iDevice prices. Android market share would plummet and 80 – 90% of the world would own Apple devices. BOGO sales that produce less than a third of the profits with a majority market share shouldn’t be used as a measure of prowess. Walmart isn’t better than Target just because it has more customers. Most people shop at Walmart solely out of need. Many still hate the quality of service and products.

By: fixignorant

fixignorant — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:08:48 +0000

I like the trend, but it’s far more modest than the headline suggests. He’s used percentages in a manner that more than doubles the real change in their respective shares of web traffic. It’s misleading and lame. We’re better served by the truth.

Apple’s only by up 1% of 60%: .6%
Android is down 13% of 28%: 3.6%

By: iGads

iGads — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:05:32 +0000

I can imagine the CNN director sitting in his office saying, “We need to get stories straight and get our shit together”.

I know, wishful thinking. To bad, I use to think better of CNN.

By: opsono

opsono — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:49:34 +0000

Wow. Keep that perspective as long as you can, Candide.

By: Cubert

Cubert — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:41:22 +0000

Easy answer – they gave up on trying to connect to the internet.

By: billyjackblack

billyjackblack — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:27:27 +0000

Eloquently said, my friend.

By: bluejay

bluejay — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:16:51 +0000

Its not ethical for the press to do that. Im cool with mdn selling ad space. But to run stories and headlines based on who is paying is plain wrong and should be against the law. Just like analysts have to disclose a long or short position when talking anout a stock, publications should disclose who is paying for that story too,

By: OpJ

OpJ — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:54:16 +0000

Perhaps a nice way of putting things than MDN does is that a lot of (maybe most of) Android sales are to people that don’t particularly want smartphones or tablets, but get them anyway because there are low end Android devices as cheap as the products they actually want (feature phones and ebook readers).

Most of the people that buy Android phones aren’t buying them as portable computers, they are buying them as better featured versions of what five years ago would have been Symbian running smart phones. They snap and text pictures with them, maybe put mp3s on them, and mostly use the phones for talking and texting. (It would be interesting to know what percentage of android phone users even have email set up on their phones.)

Similarly, a lot of people are getting (probably mostly from amazon) products that IDC counts as tablets but that the buyers are just using as ereaders, if they are using them at all. Of the Kindle Fires sold, how many are being used to do anything other than download books from amazon or the library, and how many are sitting in closets or desk drawers.

By: thethirdshoe

thethirdshoe — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:16:26 +0000

They don’t need a reason to be stupid.

By: rdiddly

rdiddly — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:13:00 +0000

Hey, look, if you’re trying to monetize a website that publishes “News”, why not sell the real-estate to the highest bidder? After all, it’s just bits and bytes. If I was trying to run a franchise like that, you can bet I’d be offering premium space to Samedung. Why? Because they’ll pay for it! It’s so friggin’ obvious that that’s what’s going down here. Even MDN sells ads to Samescum.

By: Deja Vu

Deja Vu — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:52:45 +0000

Wow, looks like you’ve found a comment you can copy and paste into darn near any article dealing with Apple.

By: Bizlaw

Bizlaw — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:50:04 +0000

All you need to know about the news networks was on display for Obama’s inauguration:

MSNBC: Constantly claiming how many people were in attendance and what a party atmosphere it was;

FOX: Constantly claiming how few people were in attendance and what a lack of party atmosphere it was;

CNN: Constantly talking about Michelle Obama’s designer wardrobe.

We’re all in deep doo-doo.

By: First 2014, Then 2016

First 2014, Then 2016 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:37:04 +0000

Further burnishing their reputation as a piece of shit network pushing hidden agendas instead of simply reporting the news?

By: bluejay

bluejay — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:35:19 +0000

The wallstreet journal didnt say a word today about iOS leading mobile sales today. Even bloomberg had the correct headline. I have no doubt the media is part of this game and i cant believe no one can do anything about this. Samsungs chairman is an ex convict, they are criminals they have money and everyone has a price.

By: hannahjs

hannahjs — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:23:05 +0000

Wait; how can this be right, when the overwhelming consensus is that Apple is washed up? Fifty million analysts can’t be wrong.

By: silverhawk1

silverhawk1 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:21:02 +0000

What’s in it for CNN?

By: Nomoremsbs

Nomoremsbs — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:17:12 +0000

I wonder if part of Samsung’s 12 billion dollar ad budget is going into the pockets of IDC too!

By: rainer_d

rainer_d — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:16:41 +0000

Maybe all those Android users just use their tablet for Facebook, twitter and Angry Birds?
And the rest of the time it serves as digital picture frame …

By: b9bot

b9bot — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:10:04 +0000

Another reason the Anal-ists are STUPID! Another report showing Apple is Growing and kicking butt! The doom and gloom talk is BULLSHIT!