“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.”
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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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