Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market

Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by gte910h on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:38PM (#2736002)

This is phone only share. Accounting for non-phone use, it's not even close, android is still behind.

iPodTouches are very popular replacements for gaming platforms for children/young adults (crowding out the nintendo DS), and there is the iPad, while blackberry/android tablets aren't doing well (Galaxy tab had a 16% return rate).

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by Pewpewarrows on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @06:40PM (#2736287)

As others already pointed out, this article is specifically about smartphone market share in the US.

But I'll be sure to mark down on my timeline of knee-jerk reactions that the debate is now about total OS install base across any category of device. I guess it's time to cross the "only on one carrier" argument off; I haven't heard that one in a few months.

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by 51Cards on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:51PM (#2736082)

Not to be too obvious but that would be why the article has the word SmartPhone in its title as it's discussing phone share only, not general mobile device market.

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by Que on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:47PM (#2736053)

This is just a side note, but how many non-tablet devices do you see sporting Android or BlackBerry OS?

Just saying in this case comparing only within the confines of the phone market share makes perfect sense.

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by gte910h on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:53PM (#2736093)

"Android Pummels Apple and Blackberry in Smartphone Supremacy Race" is a bit disingenuous when you look at periods when apple did not release a new phone (when most of their sales occur) nor compare the actual platform (iOS) which all three providers now have a tablet form of (Playbook, Honeycomb, iPad).

I find it histrionic and misleading. It's saying "Guy murdered in knife fight" to find out the one guy walked up and stabbed him during a short afternoon nap, and oh, he's not dead, just still in bed.

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by GiraffeNecktie on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @06:21PM (#2736212)

Verizon started carrying the iPhone in February, so there was a fair bit of time till this data was compiled. I'd be surprised if there's a change in direction the next time data is released.

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by gte910h on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @06:16PM (#2736195)

They picked the period right AFTER apple released a phone (verizon iPhone4) to look at growth. It's cherry picking of the worst sort.

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by dhjson on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:45PM (#2736038)

Accounting for non-phone use, it's not even close, android is still behind.

That sounds reasonable, but do you have any sources?

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by gte910h on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:51PM (#2736081)

Samsung lawsuit forced disclosure of iPodTouch sales http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/04/19/apples_samsung...

Even first day iPad sales blow through http://allthingsd.com/20100405/apple-300000-ipads-sold-on-fi...

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/02Apple-Launches-iPa...

etc.

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by nl on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @09:41PM (#2736788)

StatCounter has mobile browser usage (which includes all iOS devices)[1]:

Symbian: ~33% (it's big in Asia, and still has a large installed base)

iOS: ~20%

Android: ~18%

BB: ~12%

Note that this is only browser usage, which obviously doesn't correspond to total sales well. Symbian is still way ahead of anything else in that measure.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201006-20110...

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by mmorris on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:52PM (#2736086)

The only market share numbers I've seen recently that included non-phone devices were straight from Apple (so feel free to take it with a grain of salt if you'd like). They have iOS at 44%, with Android at 28%.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/06/ios-number-one-mo...

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by smackfu on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @09:02PM (#2736690)

Wow, that is a lot closer than I thought, considering how many cheap iPod touches Apple sells.

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by bonch on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:49PM (#2736066)

Granted, it's a figure from Apple, but at WWDC, they touted iOS as having 44% mobile OS market compared to Android's 28%.

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Re:Android takes huge lead in US Smartphone market by smackfu on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:42PM (#2736023)

I bet Apple prefers to sell $649 phones over $229 iPods.

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