“In an interview with CNBC’s ‘Squawk on the Street’ on Monday, Gazelle co-founder and CEO Israel Ganot revealed that phone trades are up about 180 percent since Samsung announced its new flagship Galaxy S4,” AppleInsider reports. “Most of that increase has been driven by customers who already own Samsung phones, he said.”
“The details from Ganot support figures cited by Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller last week,” AppleInsider reports. “Apple’s own research has found that four times as many iPhone users switch away from Android, when compared to Android users who have left the iPhone.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Unsurprisingly, settlers tend to settle.
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I sold mine to go back to my iPhone.
The hardware is nice, really like the big screen.
Android just has to many little bugs.
iRonic…. How the the CNBC screenshot of Israel Ganot links to the Gazelle site…. AND OH!!!! the linked LANDING page!!!!!! displays ALL APPLE PRODUCTS TO TRADE IN FOR A PC O SHite PLASTOXIC Galaxy S4the round file PHONE!!! WTF IS WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY??? Whatever happened to Patriotism? Apple is an American born company for Fck sake! This just proves how America has been taken over by unethical foreign countries who peddle environmentally unsound products on the inept, uninformed, gullible cheapskates….. FCKIN SAD. Have not heard from Greenpeace for some time… SamDUNG must have paid them off TOO! What a disgrace this country has become. Pathic.
PATHETIC!!!! Is what i meant to type….On all fronts. I’m livid with the whole scene. Talk about a SKULL FCK!
Fandroids exchanging junky plastic for more junky plastic.
News at 11.
Apple is weirding me out lately. Fortunately Samsung is even more weird.
How so? Care to elaborate on how Apple is “weirding you out”? Is it actually Apple doing the weirding? Or is it a bunch of media FUD that has you creeped?
has gotten boring…it reminds me of Canada.
Ignorant comment.
Meets expectations as usual.
What is your problem, eh? We are not boring at all. Once a hoser always a hoser, I guess.
I consider our rabble here to be highly entertaining!
lol…the defense rests.
There is no defense for you, botvinnik wormtongue. I thought that you had matured a bit, but I was mistaken.
lol, but Melvin how shall I survive without your blessing? where will I go? what will I do?
I may swoon.
A lot of Yankee fans do that nowadays. Now where the hell are the cigarettes?
huh?
Funny.
The Flight of the Fickle Feckless Fandroid. Trying to be cool with the latest and greatest and never quite achieving it with loyalties to none.
Fsck loyalties…what is apple…the mob? or worse, the catholic church?!
Applholes do the exact same thing when a marginally different iphone releases
someone is cranky.
Quantity over quality of features, that is what android is about
“Who wants to carry around a big, plastic phone that is a pain to use.”
Those are the exact comments made to me by college students at a recent event. Samdung thought their big screen was a selling point, guess what……not. Maybe for the old folks but not for the kids between 18-25 range I’ve been talking with.
Say what they want but when you really listen to the kids and what is cool and not cool, Apple is always the bench mark they compare their knock-off to. You don’t see the “it” people with knock-off’s.
Don’t lump when you dump.
…and the surprise is?…
Determined never to buy an iPhone yet desperate for something better. Self-flagellation by these people is both abhorent and fascinating.
Ther’s your explanation for the large number of Android activation:
Since the best way to upgrade your Android OS is to change the whole phone, Google can count on a regular flow of activations an phone manufacturers can count on a lot of sales. The system feeds itself.
This also makes most comparisons with Apple’s iPhone completely flawed.
Would we not expect the normal renewal at the end of a contract to be in a similar phone with the same OS to preserve the prior investments that are in the old phone? Including charger cables, car hookup interface, … That is what I do with as many things as I can. (cameras, TV remotes, DVD players, …) Real people know this already.
Next we will hear that water is wet.