Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by ajvs » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

Rhedox wrote: post #14

londons_explore wrote: post #11

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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.

There's laws for messaging and app stores as well.

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

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Post by chrisseaton » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

leokennis wrote: post #27

I feel like many people love iOS, but many also hate it (not open enough, lock in etc.) but they hate the cheapishness and crappiness of Android even more. Is there any development ongoing for a mobile OS that is not full of crap like Android, but not as restrictive as iOS? Not sure if Windows Phone or PalmOS were like that, but those are both gone…

Maybe what makes iOS great is the restrictions? If you take away the restrictions maybe what's great is gone.

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

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Post by optimalsolver » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

Apple owner here.

Isn't Apple at risk of losing its air of exclusivity if this continues?

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

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Post by robin_reala » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

jrm4 wrote: post #31

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" grad…

iPhone Mini: you basically can’t get an Android phone with reasonable specs and a reasonable size.

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

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Post by rr888 » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

I prefer android but its getting harder. My employer will only let us have corporate apps on android phones that are quickly patched - right now only Google Pixel phones makes the approved list. Everyone else has iphones.

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

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Post by RappingBoomer » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

Angostura wrote: post #35

RappingBoomer wrote: post #28

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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.

yeah, you're right...it's really delusional to think that iphone possession is a status symbol...I'd have to be insane to think that!

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

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Post by tootie » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

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.

I like to say that Apple is a marketing company with a very good product development team. Apple makes luxury goods with huge cachet. Android covers the entire spectrum of cheap crap up to the same level of luxury but that dilutes the brand. Apple is also vertically integrated, doing everything themselves and licensing nothing.

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

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Post by secondcoming » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

Angostura wrote: post #33

lm28469 wrote: post #19

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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?

4 years when I bought it a year ago.

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

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Post by chrisseaton » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

TakeBlaster16 wrote: post #32

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.

The monthly price is exactly the same price as paying upfront - doesn't make any difference to affordability.

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

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Post by mathlover2 » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

988747 wrote: post #6

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I was using an Android for years. My mother at one point was nagging me to buy an iPhone, and I relented and bought one just to get her to stop nagging.

6 months later I gave the iPhone to my sister and bought a new Android. I still use Android today.

(Apple does not make iTunes for Linux, seemingly out of sheer spite to Linux users like myself. I ended up having to use a slow paid app to transfer files where previously I used a command line and an SSH connection with RSA keys.)