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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by dismantlethesun on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:58PM (#12888909)
How can market share dramatically swing between 30% and 60% like it's doing in this chart?

Is this bad data? Is the market expanding & contracting so greatly that existing users are a minority of future marketshare?

Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by CountSessine on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:00AM (#12889121)
Most android phone owners don't use it as a smartphone - it's a cheap feature phone they buy at the phone store and they just use it to make calls on. The number of true 'smartphone users' in the android world who are using them to browse the web and download apps is comparable to or less than the number of iOS device owners.
Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by Oletros on Monday November 07, 2016 @05:53AM (#12890149)
> Most android phone owners don't use it as a smartphone - it's a cheap feature phone they buy at the phone store and they just use it to make calls on.

Do you have a source for that?

Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by CountSessine on Monday November 07, 2016 @03:55PM (#12894978)
Yes - see above.
Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by Oletros on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:37PM (#12895394)
Where?
Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by diziet on Monday November 07, 2016 @12:12AM (#12888948)
The data is bad.

I have a lot of insight into the apps side of things, and Android is somewhat smaller than iOS in Japan, both on revenue and downloads.

Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by tho9Ohx1eo on Monday November 07, 2016 @12:11AM (#12888945)
> How can market share dramatically swing

You pay for results?