Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years • Hacker News Board

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by edgyquant » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 6:47 PM UTC

mmastrac wrote: post #3

> Android’s loss of market share boils down to heightened competition within the OS space Yeah, that duopoly is a lot of competition

Monopoly as a word isn’t meant to describe any successful company that achieves decent market share. I’m really tired of people throwing that phrase around, iOS and Android are fiercely competing with each other for market share every year so yes there is fierce competition.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by lawl » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

lumb63 wrote: post #7

I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&T ran the promotion to get a free one. I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me: - Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in subst…

It's pick your poison. The only reason I'm still on android is because at least I can (still) have root there. I'm saying still because of safety net. But if apple let me have root, i'd probably prefer an Apple over Google.

Mobile phones and their user hostility is a cancer. I'm seriously considering using a full GNU/Linux handheld for mobile things i can do in a browser, and keep an android phone for app garbage that I only turn on if I need to use a banking app or something.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by dr_dshiv » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

Neil44 wrote: post #8

Is the Huawei situation involved in this drop?

It was why I went to iPhone. Huawei made great phones. I cant use a Samsung. Just cant. Pixel was too expensive.

I used to joke that when I’d loudly state “I support the actions of the Chinese government” I’d get an extra 5% battery life. Sigh.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by ceejayoz » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

marcodiego wrote: post #2

Sure: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-201001-20... ?

iOS Safari occasionally brags to me about how many third-party trackers it has blocked, by default.

I suspect that’s gonna impact StatCounter’s data collection.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by Mikeb85 » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

And? Does it really matter? Android is the #1 OS of all user devices worldwide. When you're at the top only one direction to go... iOS gained a bit in the developed world but Android enables tons of people all over the world to communicate and do things.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by VWWHFSfQ » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

lumb63 wrote: post #7

I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&T ran the promotion to get a free one. I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me: - Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in subst…

From my experience if you stay on the Google flagship/Pixel line then everything is great. Pretty much every other vender is garbage and will screw you and you'll have the experience you're talking about.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by fsa3d4uyuiy » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 6:50 PM UTC

lumb63 wrote: post #7

I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&T ran the promotion to get a free one. I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me: - Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in subst…

Question about that:

What I personally do most on my phone is browsing the web (when not at home, at home I can do that with a regular computer). On Android I can use Firefox with plugins to block ads, kill overlays, etc... and especially it has the reader mode

AFAIK on iPhone you can only run one Apple-approved browser and all others are a skin around that, and it doesn't have plugins.

To me browsing the web is unusable without those plugins in Firefox. How is browsing the web on an iPhone? Do you get overlays, autoplaying videos and ads on websites or can you block them? Do you get a reader mode?

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by cuteboy19 » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 6:50 PM UTC

edgyquant wrote: post #11

mmastrac wrote: post #3

> Android’s loss of market share boils down to heightened competition within the OS space Yeah, that duopoly is a lot of competition

Monopoly as a word isn’t meant to describe any successful company that achieves decent market share. I’m really tired of people throwing that phrase around, iOS and Android are fiercely competing with each other for market share every year so yes there is fierce competition.

Android itself doesn't do anything. Samsung Xiaomi Google and others compete seperately and just so happen to use Android. Though this is becoming less and less true

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by grumpyprole » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 6:50 PM UTC

lumb63 wrote: post #7

I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&T ran the promotion to get a free one. I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me: - Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in subst…

But the iPhone only "just works" if you completely buy in to Apple's ecosystem. E.g. if you want to buy some FLAC music files from somewhere else, it won't "just work" anymore. Android is still the lesser of two evils in terms of allowing more choice on its platform.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by ceejayoz » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 6:51 PM UTC

fsa3d4uyuiy wrote: post #17

lumb63 wrote: post #7

I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&T ran the promotion to get a free one. I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me: - Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in subst…

Question about that: What I personally do most on my phone is browsing the web (when not at home, at home I can do that with a regular computer). On Android I can use Firefox with plugins to block ads, kill overlays, etc... and especially it has the reader mode AFAIK on iPhone you can only run one Apple-approved browser and all others are a skin around that, and it doesn't have plugins. To me browsing the web is unus…

My PiHole is a must for my iOS devices.

Yes, there’s a reader mode.