How Google's Android Could Finally Crush Apple's iPhone

Re:How Google's Android Could Finally Crush Apple's iPhone by utopkara on Saturday November 16, 2013 @09:48AM (#6744897)

First of all, I will short any stock you pick. It is always a good bet to predict that a company will soon be in a downslide.

Secondly, your personal feelings about the iPhone UX doesn't matter.

And finally, despite the earlier "expert predictions", somehow Apple have been posting record iPhone sales per quarter. Whoever these experts are, they such at prediction. https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/10/28Apple-Reports-Fou...

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Re:How Google's Android Could Finally Crush Apple's iPhone by mcintyre1994 on Saturday November 16, 2013 @10:02AM (#6744955)

Apple are posting record sales every quarter because the smartphone market is growing way faster (39.9% year-on-year) than Apple's share of the market is declining (1.5% year-on-year). http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24442013

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Re:How Google's Android Could Finally Crush Apple's iPhone by Zigurd on Saturday November 16, 2013 @11:18AM (#6745227)

The market share numbers are true, but only Apple and Samsung (some of which is attributable to Samsung's unique vertical integration) have a significant share of profit from smartphones.

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Re:How Google's Android Could Finally Crush Apple's iPhone by utopkara on Saturday November 16, 2013 @10:11AM (#6744987)

Here's a plausible argument: "That only means that the smartphone market now has segments. And, the consumers who are now buying other smartphones predominantly fall into the segment in which Android is stronger."

It is plausible because these predictions are worthless.

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