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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 jrm4 »

Are there any "real" (come on, techy people, you know what I mean) reasons for going Apple besides I suppose the genuine convenience of fully interoperable phone/messaging across devices (which I fully concede is probably a big one for a good number of people?)

The price differences between Android and Apple still strike me as absurd. On the other side, I went from "picking an Android very carefully for rooting" gradually to "what's on sale at Best Buy for about 150" with no major shift in experience or quality.

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

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Post by TakeBlaster16 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #13

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.

Not sure about this one. You can get both kinds of phones for $0 with a monthly payment.

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

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Post by Angostura »

lm28469 wrote: post #19
988747 wrote: post #6

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I personally like my jack 3.5 and I like not spending a whole min wage worker salary on a piece of junk that will be trashed in 5 years tops

> on a piece of junk that will be trashed in 5 years top

Remind me - how long is your Android phone receiving software updates for?

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

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Post by adventured »

RappingBoomer wrote: post #10
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Oh, i can AFFORD any phone i want...but i use a cheap android because my self esteem is not dependent on using money to signal other people about my high social status

The iPhone isn't a good social status signal any longer - the majority of smartphone users in the US have one. If the majority can afford something, it's quite obvious it no longer functions for signaling high social status.

The iPhone hasn't been a good social status signal for nearly a decade at this point.

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

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Post by Angostura »

RappingBoomer wrote: post #28
Angostura wrote: post #21

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You're projecting. I can't afford any phone I want, I use a 5 year old iPhone and my choice has nothing to do with my social status. My next phone is likely to be an iPhone too.

lol...projecting? so you are saying that deep down inside I really want an iphone? LOL...ok, dude...

No, I'm saying you are projecting your belief that a phone is a status symbol onto other people.

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

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Post by spaghettiToy »

As iphones get more popular, it will lose its Veblen effect. When teenagers who have no job have iphones, it doesn't portray "wealthy" as it used to.

Among my 100k-300k/yr friends, it's about a 50/50 split. My tech friends nearly exclusively android, my wife's medical friends, iphones with a few exceptions.

I'm personally loving my new phone I got last week. It has an aux port!

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

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Post by 70jS8h5L »

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Absolutely not true. I had an iPhone 1, a 3GS and more recently a 13. After a while with the 13, I have switched back to Android (Pixel 6). Issues I had:

- Irritating keyboard behaviour (autocorrect, having to manually add custom words)

- Inability to organise the home screen to my liking

- Inability to adjust the volume of external devices, such as other Spotify devices

- Poor audio switching - if I have music playing, and play a video on another app, the music will not resume after the video ends

- Inability for third party apps to use the alarm volume - so that if I install a third party alarm app, it will change my system media volume to the level of the alarm. Therefore, if I'm playing music and my alarm rings, suddenly the music volume will increase.

- Inability to change the snooze time (hence having to resort to a third party alarm app)

These are just a small selection of (seemingly minor) issues that I had with iOS, and there were more. I appreciate Apple as a brand for its more favourable data privacy aspects, but iOS has a lot of shortcomings and reasons for a user to prefer Android. However, it's important to note that I'm used to Motorola G phones, and now the Pixel, both of which forego any irritating skinning/custom UI over the top of plain Android.

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

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Post by makeitdouble »

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…

Isn't therr career subsidies already heavily at play ?

Having the actual price partially swallowed in business rebates or scaled into years of monthly charges changes the optics in term of price and the option to afford "luxury"

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

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Post by secondcoming »

I was forced to upgrade my phone earlier due to my previous phone using a no-longer supported version of Android. I realised when speccing out new phones that I don't use half the stuff that they can do, my main use is messaging, calling, GPS and occasional browsing. 5G and battery life is important too. So I went for a Nokia XR20. Then fact it runs Android had no relevance. I can't justify spending £1k on a phone; it's absurd.

Now all I need is a better Wifi Hotspot app so I can use it as a 5G router (low latency, channel selection etc)

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

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Post by bko »

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…

Are cracked apps really that popular? I'm pretty in touch with tech and piracy but I haven't thought of cracked mobile apps especially for something like YouTube and Spotify
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