“What do Fisher Price phones and Android smartphones have in common? Simple. They are for first-time users, that much is abundantly clear,” Mark Reschke writes for TGAAP. “In other words, Android smartphones are training wheels until the user can be a big boy or girl, and ride on two wheels like all the older kids in the neighborhood.”
“Apple’s second quarter iPhone sales shocked analysts with stronger than anticipated sales, largely due to increased sales in China. But it is the overall base of iPhone users, coupled with a steady flow of Android users converting to iPhones, that continues to grow iPhone share in the U.S. and Europe,” Reschke writes. “The slow and steady growth for Apple’s iPhone is largely due to one key area that Android manufacturers cannot get a handle on — loyalty.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple iPhone users stay iPhone users. Samsung loses one customer out of every four – and those once-confused/now-enlightened souls aren’t going to BlackBerry.
As we wrote this morning: People are waking up; they don’t want pretend iPhones, they want real iPhones. An iPhone with a larger screen option will hurt Samsung immeasurably more than myriad, unending traipses through the legal morass.
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iPhone wins except for larger screens.
Want better hardware? iPhone.
Want better specs? iPhone.
Want the so-called freedom you think you need? Jailbreak an iPhone. Since you’re going to root your Android phone for freedom anyway, you can’t argue the jailbreak method.
Want a phone that gets updated REGULARLY and doesn’t require a tech nerd? iPhone.
Want a somewhat older phone free? iPhone.
What’s the argument for Android again?
P.S. STOP. BUYING. SAMSUNG. PRODUCTS.
The premise of this article is somewhat inaccurate. Customers do not need “training wheels” BEFORE starting to use an iPhone. However, it is VERY accurate to say that Android helps create a much larger pool of smartphone users than Apple can by itself, and those Android users will eventually “graduate” to an iPhone and become loyal Apple customers.
Android helps Apple in MANY ways. In a world where Android is the only OTHER viable mobile computing platform, Apple makes most of the available profit. Android is largely responsible for eliminating (or decimating) all of the other smartphone platforms, platforms that were Apple’s direct competition when the iPhone was first released (all gone or mostly irrelevant). While Apple rules the high end, Android provides a roadblock (a “buffer”) at the low end for any new platforms to emerge and threaten Apple.
Somewhat analogous to a forest, where Apple are the giant trees while Samsung are the mass of smaller trees, blocking the light, thus preventing competition from growing.
Come the end of the year and I’ll be buying my fourth iPhone, going 3,4,5, then 6.
Really looking forward to what the next version is like.
Is there a English translation for “Samsung”?
Is it a Korean word that actually translate to something in English?
Simple translation with one more letter & 1 changed: Scamdung.
삼성 in Korean translates just to Samsung in English. Maybe it’s a name and, therefore, doesn’t translate.
Q: Is Korean like Chinese and Japanese whereby each character is a single syllable sound with each character having a source meaning?
A: Yes!
삼 = three
성 = sex
AKA: Ménage à trois.
Isn’t that interesting!
Ahem
Haha. I think Derek is on to something there.
Samsung literally translate as “thieving a&&hole executives.”
Copycat
It translates to “three stars” in Korean. Not sure what the English equivalent would be, but let’s just say “Scamscum”- close enough!
Anecdotally, I know more people who have switched from iPhone to Android than vice versa.
IPhone seems to have lost the “cool” factor it had a couple of years ago. It seems like as the iPhone has gained popularity with boomers, it has lost favour with the younger generation. Boomers have huge buying power though so it’s good news for Apple.
FUD unsupported by facts.
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/08/iphone-still-popular-with-teens/
As I said, anecdotally. I’m in a different market to that report as well so it doesn’t apply to what I see.
How are the Ozarks this time of the year?
Where in the hell have you been? I see more younger people with iPhones than Android phones. And who the hell cares what age groups are buying iPhones anyway? I don’t give a damn about useless crap like that. I care about how my iPhone fits my needs perfectly, and ALWAYS works.
Luke,
Really? Of course if all your friends are Apple hating tech nerd wannabes then it makes sense.
Ok I over state for effect but the people I see using android are not people that are just looking at buying cheap and not doing ANY research. Just taking the teens word behind the counter.
I am surprised at what utter rubbish some so called journalists write. His comments on Fisher Price are ridiculous, I thought IOS was the simplest and easiest OS to use and Andriod was for geeks and users that like to do something different with their phone, not the other way around!
He then goes on about IOS taking over Android, yet recent figures posted here on MDN showed Android growth was increasing more than IOS is many of the major markets.
Lastly, a bigger iphone may spark extra sales, but if the only model is 4.7″ this will be mainly existing iphone users which will not expand IOS market share very much. The model will have to be bigger, have a higher resolution screen, better battery life, be more robust and IOS will need to be improved, if more Android users are to switch.
Fair enough. There’s plenty of room for debate.
My perspective mainly circles around concern about that fact that Android:
A. Is currently the most insecure operating system on the planet. (Yes it is! And Google offers next-to-no vetting of applications sold in its store! That’s not comforting).
B. Is severely fragmented, whereby it is typically impossible to update one’s Android device to the latest version. (This problem of course exacerbates concern (A) above).
C. Is a clunky operating system that often does NOT simply work, unlike iOS. (I thank gawd that my brother switched from an Android phone to an iPhone. Now he no longer pesters me to fix his phone for him all the time).
D. Android is a ripoff of Apple’s iOS. What does it really contribute to the computer community? Not much of anything. It’s an also-ran, plain and simple.
Thank you thats healthy, better than stupid comments that too often happen here.
Reply to:-
A. Agree in theory, but I have never had or heard of anyone who has had a virus, malware or intrusion on any phone. On Window PC’s yes plenty, other than that just one and that was a Mac that my security software picked up. Iphone are not immume either in theory but what does it matter never happens.
B. Again I agree in part, on phones that are not pure Android there can be a long wait, but pure Android it is no problem so not really an Android problem. Updating for the sake of it is also dangerous and much more of a threat than any virus. Updates often slow, cause problems or completly brick phones and the iPhone has been a prime example of this. It has not affected me as I stuck to IOS 6 but did really hurt my iMac when I updated to Mavericks. So now I wait six months before updating anyway and as a major update occurs once a year and I renew my phone at least in two years its not a problem.
C. I strongly disagree with this, in the past it was true, but from my experience and backed up by recent reports IOS is no longer the most responsive and smooth phone operating system and according to a recent extensive independant report apps crash twice as much as those on Android. For me its about the same, no real difference between the two, if you are using a decently specced phone.
D. I stongly disagree with this too, Apple just built on what was there before and bought it together in a fantastic package with the original iPhone. Yes others followed, but now the tide had changed and even Apple are incorporating Andriod features into IOS and it is much better because of that.
One last thing, one of the main reasons IOS is less less fragmented and Andriod is more insecure, is Apples controlling obsession. This has advantages yes, but it bring along many disadvantages too and you cannot take one without the other. Its a major reason that Android has a lot of very important features that make it in my opinion a better the better OS of the two. It also means consumers have a far better choice of phones to choose from, than the limited Apple range, again this has to be a plus point that goes along with the negative.
Thanks for the discussion.
I have to agree with Colin. The days of iPhone being vastly superior to Android on both look and smooth performance has long gone. Since Android 4.0 in fact, the reverse has happened in the looks and I now prefer Android’s holo look amongst the 3 major platforms. I have always found Android to have better usability characteristics than iPhone, but now it’s also winning on the looks and performance front.
On the lack of OS updates, there is no doubt that Android severely lags behind the iPhone. But apart from that, fragmentation is not an issue and the hardware diversity is fantastic. And even there if OS updates were a big concern, I can always go with a Nexus or a Moto device.
What you are saying that 10% of all Android phones are in the same ballpark as every iPhone when it comes to operating systems.
The other 90% of Android phones are crap and will always be crap.
The tweaks are available within the settings of all recent Android phones in a section called “Developer options.”
This section might be hidden on some phones, but it’s very easy to access. On many phones, you just have to open a certain page in the settings and tap a button seven times. Use Google to figure out how to enable Developer options on your phone if it’s currently hidden (for example, search “enable developer options HTC One”).
Once you have access to Developer options, simply scroll until you find the following three settings, which may be located on the main screen or within an “Advanced” subsection:
Window animation scale
Transition animation scale
Animator animation scale
Tapping each of the three aforementioned settings will reveal that it’s set to “1x” by default. If you want to speed up your phone or tablet dramatically, simply change each of those three settings to “.5x” — that’s it.
Just as iOS 7.1 completely changed the feel of the iPhone user experience by speeding up transitions, this will do the same for Android devices. Adjusting these settings also shouldn’t really have any impact on battery life, though if you’re using an older phone with a slower processor you may see some choppiness.