The most amazing part about Android phones are the "mostly good enough" models that sell for $50 to $60 a piece in developing nations. If you're a person in Pakistan who makes a monthly salary in rupees equivalent to about $250 or $300, you might buy a phone that costs $60.
These days it's a fairly decent thing with a MediaTek chipset that runs Android 5.1 and has the full Play Store on it and can run 95% of the apps that you and I run on our $350-650 phones. This is how Android has >85% of worldwide market share. Apple does not care about sub $100 or even sub $50 phones. On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > You have a strong opinion, but it is poorly formed. Apple has a decent > take in the US market, but that's a small percentage of the overall pie. > That's slated to slide more away from Apple given current trends. > > 2nd quarter of this year Android was at 86.2% global smartphone share, and > Apple is losing ground quarter after quarter. > > https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/18/gartner-androids- > smartphone-marketshare-hit-86-2-in-q2/ > > 87.6 once more results were in: > http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp > > You're entitled to your opinion though, by all means. > > On Oct 5, 2016 8:24 PM, "Travis Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Actually, Apple is the top smartphone in the US... nobody cares about the >> rest of the world... they have 44% marketshare in the US. You know, the >> country where every real Internet and tech company is located... Apple, >> Intel, Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Google, etc. >> >> Take your pick of Android phone... their screen responses all suck >> compared to an iPhone. :) >> >> Travis >> >> >> On 10/5/2016 6:02 PM, Bill Prince wrote: >> >>> It was not me that said that. >>> >>> I don't buy Apple products. Period. I would not get an Apple product if >>> it were free. >>> >>> And there is good reason that most of the people on the planet use a >>> smartphone other than theirs. >>> >>> And a Samsung smartphone is not real Android, so that is a piss poor >>> comparison. >>> >>> >>> bp >>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>> >>> On 10/5/2016 3:30 PM, Travis Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> Some people ride a Honda, some people ride a Harley. Some people drive >>>> a Chevy, some people drive a BMW. >>>> >>>> I think it was you that even said "If the price was the same, everyone >>>> would be using an iPhone"... which I honestly believe. I have used a brand >>>> new Samsung phone with Android, and the first thing I noticed is that the >>>> screen response is not the same as an iPhone >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>
