Comments on: iPhone wrests the US smartphone sales crown back from Android

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:55:35 +0000

Apple IOS will never beat Android in marketshare. This article should be titled “Apple iphone 5 outsells any other SINGLE Android phone this Quarter”. Although the Galaxy S3 was the best selling smartphone beating the IP4S but ill have to look at sales of IP5 to compare. Point is stop bragging your choice of only 1 phone outsold android single phone cause in the end i am glad i have a choice and can upgrade at anytime while Applers have to wait for Apple to give them something new or not.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:50:08 +0000

Now what this article fails to mention is the fact that yes the Iphone might have outsold any other single Android phone but that is not impressive. For Android people have choice and with Apple you only get 1 phone. That is like Honda only making the Civic and gloating about how they sold more Civics than Ford sold Focus or Mustangs when Ford has a huge selection. Now where Apple fails is IOS outselling Android OS.

By: Roy Robert Lippin

Roy Robert Lippin — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:18:45 +0000

lol

By: Vance

Vance — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:20:21 +0000

But, Jeremy, the phones which are the big sellers for Android are not the free ones, but phones like the Galaxy S3, which cost as much as the iPhone, if not more. There are probably around 15 Android phones which cost as much as the iPhone whose combined sales would be greater than the iPhone. The fact is that people walking into their carrier now willing to spend good money on a phone have a choice between either an expensive Android phone or an expensive iPhone, and as many or more are choosing the expensive Android phone. Because, as you say, you get what you pay for.

By: Jeremy Caron

Jeremy Caron — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:25:15 +0000

Vance the only reason Apple didnt surpass overseas is because it just became available to most countries and still isn’t for sale in several others..

lets see you get what you pay for.. free phone with google os vs @ $200 minimum with ios.. that’s hard for someone who is just looking for a free device..

But i will say LOVE the trolling…

By: Vance

Vance — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:54:54 +0000

What I find odd is that anyone would doubt this could be a correct statistic. While Android does have around a 65% total marketshare (depending on the source) in the US (greater worldwide), this is THE quarter Apple has been waiting for, the one in which people finally go out and buy their long-awaited phone in droves. As a layman who keeps close tabs on this market (and an Android enthusiast) I expected that this quarter’s sales number ratio would be MUCH higher in the iPhone’s favor, while still not effecting their minority status in US and worldwide marketshare.

By: ARMdevices.net

ARMdevices.net — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:46:32 +0000

Kevin C Tofel, Vance, so now IDC, Gartner, all those guys are not able to measure statistics for the USA???

It’s pathetic that one trusts a never before heard about or never before used source of information and uses that as data for Apple’s Techmeme propaganda machine, filling up the blogosphere with another round of totally bogus numbers, and then your argument is that I do not have data? NO! YOU DO NOT HAVE DATA. Man this is ridiculous that I should be writing more in this thread. This post is wind, noise, useless. If you do not have real data, then don’t writ a blog post. This is just so pathetic. That all these techmeme blogs, supposedly reliable sites like techcrunch, gigaom, cnet, slashgear, business “insider” and some random bogus bloggers that can post on forbes, that somehow you all feel the need to write and re-blog some things, taken out of absolutely pull out of ass new name for an analyst NEVER BEFORE APPEARED on same said blogs, do you have some kind of quota to fill up? It’s like what you guys write has no consequence, take no responsibility.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:42:43 +0000

Hey now, let’s not let logic or details get in the way of things, ‘k? ;)

By: Vance

Vance — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:38:50 +0000

Question for you, ARMdevices.net: what does the marketshare in China and the rest of the world have to do with this article, which is not talking about marketshare at all and is not talking about sales outside the US. This is a VERY specific statistic: sales (not marketshare) for a 12-week period (not all-time) in the US (not worldwide).

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:37:12 +0000

Charbax. Feel free to keep commenting but I’m going to extricate myself from the conversation. Why? Because you haven’t provided the simple bit of information I asked for, i.e.: data showing that the iPhone didn’t outsell Android in the U.S. during the reported time frame. Instead, you add more data points that are relevant, but don’t disprove anything. It’s really that simple. And no (you’re wrong again): I did not reblog anything from the link you provided. Thanks!