ChangeWave Research, a service of 451 Research, looked at operating system customer satisfaction based upon the OS consumers have on their smartphones.
As in previous ChangeWave surveys, Apple is the clear leader with 71% of iOS users saying they are Very Satisfied with their phone.
What may be a surprise to some is that users of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system (53%) now rank it higher in terms of customer satisfaction than do users of the Android mobile operating system (48%).
Source: ChangeWave Research
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote well over a year ago on October 27, 2011:
Windows Phone will be popular. Over time, it’ll eat the lunch of the increasingly fragmented, increasingly insecure, and increasingly costly Android (losing patent infringement lawsuits and dropping features/paying royalties to multiple IP owners will do that to you).
The not-iPhone world will begin to dump Android and move to Microsoft’s mobile OS offering because it will eventually cost less, work better, and come with far fewer legal issues. In the iPhone wannabe market, it’s already happening (Nokia, for example). We expect the same to happen in the iPad wannabe market, too. Google and Microsoft will long battle each other for the non-Apple markets and that’s a much better scenario for everyone than having a single ripoff artist flood the market with fragmented, insecure, beta-esque, mediocre-at-best products. Google’s attempt to be the next Microsoft is doomed.
This, of course, will also impact Google’s search business. Apple’s Siri will increasingly deliver info to users sans Google and Microsoft will, naturally, use Bing for their search. As we’ve said many times in the past: Google will rue the day they got greedy by deciding to try to work against Apple instead of with them.
The bottom line: We’d rather see a company trying unique ideas, even if – shockingly – it’s Microsoft, than the wholesale theft of Apple innovations that we’ve been seeing for over
four[five] years now. Don’t steal IP. Even worse, don’t steal IP and “claim to be innovators.” We have no problem with any companies that attempt to compete with Apple using their own unique ideas and strategies.
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I hope all the folks complaining about how iOS is “long in the tooth” read this. I am sure Apple is.
What exactly are you suggesting? iOS satisfaction fairly high, so Apple can pat themselves on the back and continue at the same pace as a year or two ago?
71% means over 1 in 4 are not “very satisfied” so there’s room for improvement.
The Android satisfaction number would be higher too if only the top-end models were counted. The lower-end junk sells more and of course will drag the overall Android satisfaction score down.
Apple requires competition. Android is crap by comparison. But it can still serve to push Apple into further innovation of iOS. That’s a good thing.
If you’re going to round out the percentages, only 3 out of 10 were satisfied and not very satisfied.
I highly doubt this chart regarding Windows Phone OS at 53%.
There might only be 100 users on the planet.
Windows phones just aren’t selling,
nor are Windows Tablets OR the new Windows Titles OS.
Chart is BS.
The chart is tracking percentage of users at various satisfaction levels, not market share. Even if there were only 100 users of Windows Phone OS, the chart is saying that 53 of them are very satisfied.
Those 53 are also very satisfied with their Microsoft paychecks.
Sometimes when a day at school is missed it doesn’t make much of a difference but the day you missed on graphs seems to have made a big difference for you.
Big duh here….
How is that nuclear war going Larry?
Larry is simply hiding the fact that he has to wear Depends these days to hide his leakage problem. Android is not a source of Google happiness.
Oh yeah. GOOG $705, AAPL $500. Down $205 since October. Yeah, get um Apple.
And that’s how successful AAPL manipulation has been. I have this bridge in Brooklyn you might like Joe. It’s going for a song.
am totally satisfied with my iphone 4, 4s, and 5.. have 5, all are great. imac is the same. i received an email regarding possible issues with my 1 tb hd in my 4 year old imac… i took it to the apple store on el paseo. they called me back days later, and gave me my imac back with a new hd, a new logic boars, a new superdrive, cleaned and polished with a total cost of Zero dollars to me. Apple is, and always has been a great company and will always have me as a customer. Just wanted to share why people should buy apple products. who else would take such good care of their customers with no qualms to this extent?
i also need to mention my time machine and icloud both worked and synced perfectly one i got my imac back. had 700 gb reinstalled and running perfectly in less than 4 hrs. used a fw800 backup, and that really helped. Again, apple products just work.
I am very happy windows phone ,If u want to get the best windows phone you should try lumia from nokia.
windows phone will take the market share in next 6 years
I am very happy windows phone ,If u want to get the best windows phone you should try lumia from nokia.
windows phone will take the market share in next 2 years