“Apple’s share of the U.S. smartphone market, grew to 43.4% from 35.6% between May and July according to a Kantar World Panel survey released Monday, a gain of 7.8 percentage points that came almost entirely out of the hide of Google’s Android,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“That may come as a surprise, given that Apple hasn’t released a new iPhone since September 2012, and the smartphone news this year was dominated by Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy S4, which arrived just before Kantar’s survey began. In fact, news outlets reporting on IDC’s and Gartner’s latest smartphone data have been telling a very different story,” P.E.D. reports. “The reason for the discrepancy is clearer when you see Kantar’s full spreadsheet… The world turns out to be a mosaic of very different smartphone preferences.”
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Apple has staying power.
And the competition is its own worst enemy.
Now where is that huge-ass iPhone everyone (except buyers) seems to want?
Yea, where is that phablet?
The analysts have been telling us that Apple’s iPhone sales are dropping like a rock because there’s not 35 different iPhones to choose from.
Oh that’s right, Apple might be a smidgen smarter about what the people want.
“A great phone, that just works”
To quote Steve Jobs:
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
I guess the buy one get one free programs are drying up. Now we’re getting a more realistic picture of sales of these competing products. Add to that buyers remorse. Wait until Apple debuts their new goods next week. Android is destined to has been status.
Why people want Apple’s competitors to fail is beyond me. All companies do well with competition. It forces them to produce better products.
In any competition there are winners and losers. The meaning of doing well in competition is to win over other entries. If you root for a winner, you also want a loser. I prefer to be on the winning team thank you. Everyone can not get a trophy (though in today’s society they sure try to dumb everything down so everyone does, which is the opposite of sparking competition for the desire to be the best).
That is usually true however, in Apple’s case, their best competition is themselves. They try to outdo what they did before.
Also I think no one here would begrudge any valid competition but android seems to have ripped off a lot of the conventions used in iOS. This is pretty easy to see when looking at any Android concepts pre-iPhone announcement. Couple that with Samsung wich seems to have just made nothing but pretend iPhones to leapfrog over 5 years of R&D and it doesn’t really seem like competition, just thieves.
The trend is now becoming very clear. Significant number of consumers are switching to iPhone after their dissatisfaction with the first smartphone which was Android based. In maturing markets Apple is regaining share from Android. In emerging markets the trend is still in Androids favor since a large number are trying smartphones for the first time and are attracted by the lower cost of Android based phones.
Apple in the meantime are continuing to suck the profit out of the industry. Just as they did with the music player and PC industries. Beautiful to behold.