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Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US

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Re: Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US

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Post by londons_explore »

londons_explore wrote: post #7

I attribute most of this to iMessage and the associated lock-in effect. You don't see the same trend in the rest of the world where 3rd party messengers (Whatsapp, Viber, Line, snapchat, etc) are mostly used for comms. The inability of iPhones to easily host 'cracked' apps also acts as an anchor to adoption - theres a lot of people hooked on their cracked ad-free spotify or youtube apps, or games with 'everything fre…

The EU mandate that all large messaging platforms be interoperable by mid 2023 ought to widen this gap too.

I wouldn't want to be part of the team having a deadline of March to develop and implement a way for every big messaging app to interoperate, with different user models, privacy concerns (e2e?), data storage models, data durability models, etc.

Yet if it launches late, you have that 10% of revenue fine hanging over you, which is huuuuuuge. And the EU probably won't listen to you when you say "we implemented this API but their API was incompatible with ours".

Re: Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US

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Post by rootusrootus »

For average people, iPhones are aspirational, android is what you get if you can’t afford an iPhone. So as soon as you can afford it, you buy one.

Tech people excluded because they have other niche reasons for their smartphone choice.

Re: Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US

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Post by Rhedox »

londons_explore wrote: post #11
londons_explore wrote: post #7

I attribute most of this to iMessage and the associated lock-in effect. You don't see the same trend in the rest of the world where 3rd party messengers (Whatsapp, Viber, Line, snapchat, etc) are mostly used for comms. The inability of iPhones to easily host 'cracked' apps also acts as an anchor to adoption - theres a lot of people hooked on their cracked ad-free spotify or youtube apps, or games with 'everything fre…

The EU mandate that all large messaging platforms be interoperable by mid 2023 ought to widen this gap too. I wouldn't want to be part of the team having a deadline of March to develop and implement a way for every big messaging app to interoperate, with different user models, privacy concerns (e2e?), data storage models, data durability models, etc. Yet if it launches late, you have that 10% of revenue fine hanging…

Did they actually mandate that? I thought what the EU mandated was mostly about payment services.

Re: Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US

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Post by tibbydudeza »

988747 wrote: post #6

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I don't buy phones on contract anymore.

My 128GB Xiaomi Redmi Note 9S cost me about R5000 in 2020 while a comparable screen sized iPhone with the same capacity would have been R20,000

Easy decision to make when the $$$ is paid upfront - contracts for iPhones here are already like cars heading towards 36 months.

Re: Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US

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Post by fest »

988747 wrote: post #6

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There is a small minority that refuses to buy Apple products because of ideological causes (at least that is the reason for me- I am not comfortable with supporting a company that locks it's users in a walled garden).
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