“Apple is stealing users from rival Android in record numbers, according to a new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners,” Joey Jackson reports for RCR Wireless News.
“The report found 26% of consumers who bought the iPhone 6s in the first month it was released were former Android users,” Jackson reports. “That is up 12% from last year and 23% since the launch of the iPhone 5s in 2013, according to the study.”
The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus launch attracted a greater percentage of Android owners compared to a year ago. This says a little more about the very hot iPhone 6 and 6 Plus launch, which motivated more iPhone upgrades than in previous years. The share of buyers coming from the Android platform for this launch more resembles the long-term trend in Android and iOS switching. — Mike Levin, partner and co-founder of CIRP
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MacDailyNews Take: A once-confused world awakens. Again.
Google’s going to rue the day they got greedy by deciding to try to work against Apple instead of with them. – MacDailyNews, March 9, 2010
Android is an inferior, unprofitable knockoff peddled to cheapskate tech illiterates who do not value their privacy and/or who are so blind as to be unable to recognize a half-assed fake from the revolutionary original.
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
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