“Android handset makers continue to compete for a smaller share of smartphones sales across Europe, according to new sales figures,” Liam Tung reports for ZDNet. “Android’s market share across Europe’s big five countries — Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain — fell on average by 3.3 percentage points compared with last year, according to figures for the three months to August compiled by market research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.”
“With a 72.2 percent share, Android devices still dominate overall sales across Germany, the UK, France, Spain, and Italy,” Tung reports. “However, Android has seen its share decline by as much as seven percent in Europe’s largest markets while only making slight year-on-year gains in Spain and Italy, where consumers lean heavily towards pre-paid mobile subscriptions.”
“Across Europe, Samsung still leads Apple by a long but shrinking margin, with its share falling from 42 percent a year ago to 39 percent in the current period, while Apple’s share grew from 13.7 percent to 16.2 percent,” Tung reports. “Microsoft’s Lumia phones are in third place with a 10.6 percent share, followed in descending order by Sony, Huawei, LG, Wiko, HTC and Motorola.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We’d love to see the brain scans of these 1 in 10 who hamstring themselves with ecosystem-bereft Windows phones. Are these poor souls institutionalized? If not, they should be.
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Why Android users can’t have the nicest things – January 5, 2015
iPhone users earn significantly more than those who settle for Android phones – October 8, 2014
Yet more proof that Android is for poor people – June 27, 2014
More proof that Android is for poor people – May 13, 2014
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IDC data shows two thirds of Android’s 81% smartphone share are cheap junk phones – November 13, 2013
CIRP: Apple iPhone users are younger, richer, and better educated than those who settle for Samsung knockoff phones – August 19, 2013
IT doofuses are responsible for most of that 10%
I was wondering if the plural of doofus is doofi? IT doofi are likely the only ones buying Windows phones and Surface devices.
Suck it iHaters! 😀
Russia is Europe’s biggest country.
AND SOOOOO Secure… What a JOKE!!!
http://fortune.com/2015/10/07/samsung-pay-looppay-breach/?xid=yahoo_fortune
SH!* STORM!
I’d love to see the brain scans of these idiots who go on and on and on about market share.