Comments on: It’s no fluke – iPhone closes the gap on Android in U.S.

By: Saif Saab

Saif Saab — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:50:27 +0000

Apple also continues to dominate Middle East Mobile Internet Usage
http://english.nuqudy.com/General_Overview/Gulf/Middle_East_Mobile_-891

By: Alan Finn

Alan Finn — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:50:25 +0000

the real reason for the big jump is october/november marks the ends of 2 year contracts everywhere on droids. people only bought android because iPhone was exclusive and it was stated to be an iPhone killer. well, it’s not. it’s a flat out mess. ps… the “holiday season” bullshit isn’t an apple exclusive. if people wanted it, android sales would have skyrocketed over christmas too, or iOS would have slowly fallen like blackberry.

basically, android only had anything when iOS was an AT&T exclusive. now that it’s available on 3 of the 4 major us carriers and people are switching (including myself) from android to iPhone the second their contract ends, the android fad is over. sorry

By: Martin Hill

Martin Hill — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:37:37 +0000

@anon,
The rest of the world Is showing similar gains.

For example, the 700,000 Android activations per day Google has been crowing about recently are matched by 600,000 to 710,000 iOS device sales per day (36 million iPhones, 11-19 million iPads and 7-10 million iPod touches) in Q4 2011.

By: Martin Hill

Martin Hill — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:37:09 +0000

@anon,
The rest of the world Is shooing similar gains. For example, the 700,000 Android activations per day Google has been crowing about are matched by 600,000 to 710,000 iOS device sales per day (36 million iPhones, 11-19 million iPads and 7-10 million iPod touches) in Q4 2011.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:33:31 +0000

@Martin Hill
What does the market share for Q4 look like for the rest of the planet? IOS’s future will not be decided by US market share only.

By: Pigland

Pigland — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:27:25 +0000

All the first chart shows is that ignorant parents bought their ignorant children Iphones during the holiday season, because in the past 5 years, wanting and buying “I” products is the new means of showing affection.

By: Martin Hill

Martin Hill — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:51:00 +0000

Actually marketshare and growth does support Nielsen, ComScore and NPD’s numbers.

Android’s growth has been plateauing all of this year. In 2010, Android’s smartphone marketshare grew 367%. However this year, Android’s growth plummeted to only 28% growth.

Now some of this is due to a maturing market, but that does not explain the iPhone’s marketshare growtH which went from negative 14% in 2010 to 38% in 2011 (up till October) according to NPD.

By: Bee Ryan

Bee Ryan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:43:39 +0000

There is iPhone market share and there is iOS market share – which are two different things – and its often never said or hinted at. Of course Android is on tablets to, but they have yet to make a “good” tablet … and of course even a two year old iPhone can be upgraded to Apple’s latest, where as many one year old Android based phones can not be upgraded at all (or maybe they need a hack or maybe they will EVENTUALLY get it, some day).

I think in every real metric, Apple’s iOS beats Google’s Android OS … in Apps, quality of apps, types of apps, numbers of apps (prob least important), apps geared at the tablets (specifically) and integrated OS/hardware (Apple’s system on a chip tends to beat anything Android has in performance), battery life (yep, it is generally better on iOS devices, though its not perfect) and just about everything else, except – MAYBE -market share.

By: I M Rubirosa

I M Rubirosa — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:51:24 +0000

Ha agreed. I believe most here have missed the reference. In any case, only sequential quarters would prove a trend.

By: Meoyskie

Meoyskie — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:35:44 +0000

Only problem is that the marketshare and growth numbers didn’t reflect your observations at all, outside of this one quarter. Even with a new iPhone, price drops on other device and expansions to new carriers, Android still beat iPhone.