US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

Post by TheCleric » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:46 PM UTC

zh3 wrote: post #316

lolinder wrote: post #278

The link should really be to the original report [0]. This 55% is iPhone's share of phone shipments in Q2, not the number of users of the respective phones at any given time. In other words, fewer people are buying smartphones than were before, but Apple saw less of a hit to their numbers than everyone else did. Contrary to existing comments here, this stat doesn't appear to indicate that people are switching from An…

I'm constantly amazed by how people spend so much of their income on Apple products; it's almost like their lives are ruled by the status they feel an iPhone brings (and the consequential sacrificial purchasing). It likely varies by area and average income, here it's almost an inverse correlation - the less-well off kids at school tend to have parents on iPhones and the comfortable parents are on whatever works for t…

Post by wolpoli » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:46 PM UTC

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JKCalhoun wrote: post #354

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Anecdotal support for you claim: gave my dad and his wife two of my older iPhones to replace their Android phones. They'll never look back now. He told me he assumed the fawning over iPhones was "hype", now says he believes it is not.

You don't, however, mention which Android phones they switched from. Android obviously has a huge variety of different phone manufacturers, and many of them really suck, and many more are just mediocre. I think it would be harder to argue that iPhones are now (or in the past 5 years or so) significantly better than a Samsung or Pixel flagship. I personally own a Pixel and my spouse owns an iPhone, and besides the fam…

Post by teaearlgraycold » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:49 PM UTC

TheCleric wrote: post #501

zh3 wrote: post #316

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I'm constantly amazed by how people spend so much of their income on Apple products; it's almost like their lives are ruled by the status they feel an iPhone brings (and the consequential sacrificial purchasing). It likely varies by area and average income, here it's almost an inverse correlation - the less-well off kids at school tend to have parents on iPhones and the comfortable parents are on whatever works for t…

By and large the Android phones cost the same as iPhones, so I don't understand this criticism.

Post by TheCleric » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:52 PM UTC

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Shoes haven't changed? Do you wear nothing but Chuck Taylors? As someone with a multitude of foot issues, my options have exploded in the last couple decades.

I haven't found any shoes that address my foot issues. Even if I did I'm sure they would cost 5x the price of regular shoes and would provide almost no improvement. Are there some kind of objective metrics on how modern shoes are better than shoes from 10 years ago? Are they objectively more durable? Is the shape somehow better for your feet? Because I haven't felt any of it. For me it's just like other clothing: cha…

Post by kernal » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:54 PM UTC

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>I seriously doubt that there are any Androids out there that could get even close to that. It's probably because you didn't really do any research into it. A $100 or less Pixel 4a released in 2020 will easily last 5+ years if you take care of it.

> It's probably because you didn't really do any research into it. A $100 or less Pixel 4a released in 2020 will easily last 5+ years if you take care of it. I'm not optimizing for years alive in retirement; instead, it's years of active, healthy life. Similarly, I don't just care about years of software support in a phone - it's important how long the phone feels like it's still a snappy, responsive phone. I just do…