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Does that mean Android 'activations' includes only Android phones?
Good question, I think it also includes tablets, but I am presuming that the bulk of the numbers represents phones.
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#42Bombastic numbers as usual. So, when can I get an MB Pro 13" with an up-to-par screen resolution? :)
A matte screen without having to choose an upgrade on the 15" MBP please.
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#43While Apple is doing great, I see some flatlining starting next year once the market for high-price computers start to saturate. Just an opinion.
why is this comment being down-voted ?
Probably because people have been predicting this kind of thing for years. It is also worth pointing out that only 18% of Apple's ridiculous revenue comes from Mac sales.
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#44iOS is about to displace Windows/DOS as the top selling OS in the U.S. A Microsoft OS has probably been the top seller for the last 30 years. Just a rough back of the envelope calculation is 12-13 million iOS devices sold in the U.S. this quarter. (7 million iPhone, 3.5 iPad, 1.6 iPod Touch at 35% US/Global). In comparison, 2Q11 non-Mac PC sales in the U.S. were about 16 million (and shrinking). iPhone 5 on sprint/T-…
What about Android? It seems that worldwide quite a few more Android devices than iOS devices are activated per day. Are less than 35% of all Android devices sold in the US?
Where do you get that number?
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#4520.34 million iPhones in the quarter comes out to about 225,000 iPhones sold per day. Google recently announced 500,000 Android "activations' Android per day. So Android still has the market share advantage?
Android is growing faster (and from a larger base) but I believe both iOS and Android are growing faster than the market right now.
It's RIM, Windows Mobile, Nokia and the others who Android seems to be impacting rather than Apple.
Not surprising really. Regardless of what you think about Android vs iOS, you'd be hard pressed to find significant numbers of people who preferred the other platforms to iOS. If Android is going to dominate the world you'd expect it to pick off the weakest competition first.
That said I don't think it's going to be a one player market, or even a two player market. I don't see either Android or iOS going anywhere and Windows Phone is looking interesting and getting a lot of good things said and written about it so I think it has it's part to play.
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#46I bought my first Mac on Friday at the Mall of America. There's a Microsoft store right across from the Apple store. It was amazing to me how much more crowded the Apple store was. There were a lot of people at the Microsoft store but it was ridiculous how many were at the Apple store.
I'm mostly a Windows user, and I don't know why I'd go to a MS store. For example, if I want an iPad or MBP I'd go to an Apple Store. I'm not sure what other stores carry them (does Best Buy?). But I know that the Apple store does. In contrast, I can buy a PC anywhere. But I don't actually know what specific PCs are available at the Microsoft store. I do know they have all of the available phones at the MS store, but…
I went to an MS store in LA the other week. It was sad, but I couldn't stop laughing. Why is there an MS store when all of the products on display aren't even MS products? The tablet right in the front of the store didn't even work (touchscreen was broken), and it had a STYLUS! I actually laughed out loud.
Within close proximity was an Apple store, the MS store, and a Sony store as well. The Sony and MS stores were such blatant ripoffs of the Apple store in their design that it just added to the hilarity. The staff at the Microsoft store even wore the same shade of blue shirts as those at the Apple store.
Point of the story? Apple's lead in the industry is evident from more than their products and their profits.
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#47The nice thing about this is that they sold 20 million iphone 4, which is actually over an year old now ...
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm mostly a Windows user, and I don't know why I'd go to a MS store. For example, if I want an iPad or MBP I'd go to an Apple Store. I'm not sure what other stores carry them (does Best Buy?). But I know that the Apple store does. In contrast, I can buy a PC anywhere. But I don't actually know what specific PCs are available at the Microsoft store. I do know they have all of the available phones at the MS store, but…
I think one of the main benefits to the Windows stores (besides the fact that they sell Windows Phones, and by all accounts don't actively try to talk their customers out of buying them) is the fact that they sell systems there which are part of Microsoft's Signature PC line.‡ For those unfamiliar, it's basically a system from a vendor without all the crap that they install on a fresh system. The fact that Microsoft…
I agree it's great you can get a PC without the crap installed but I think MS have to tackle off the root problem and have it so that's how they all come.
Seriously, you'd get a noticable performance increase on the average low end laptop right off the bat if they could do that.
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Does that mean Android 'activations' includes only Android phones?
Good question, I think it also includes tablets, but I am presuming that the bulk of the numbers represents phones.
I think the tablet to phone ratio right now is such that it's not that big a deal which it represents.
That's not to say Android tablets won't take off, just that in the numbers that have been published until now they're not selling that well and the phones are selling like hot cakes.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm mostly a Windows user, and I don't know why I'd go to a MS store. For example, if I want an iPad or MBP I'd go to an Apple Store. I'm not sure what other stores carry them (does Best Buy?). But I know that the Apple store does. In contrast, I can buy a PC anywhere. But I don't actually know what specific PCs are available at the Microsoft store. I do know they have all of the available phones at the MS store, but…
I think one of the main benefits to the Windows stores (besides the fact that they sell Windows Phones, and by all accounts don't actively try to talk their customers out of buying them) is the fact that they sell systems there which are part of Microsoft's Signature PC line.‡ For those unfamiliar, it's basically a system from a vendor without all the crap that they install on a fresh system. The fact that Microsoft…
So while we're contrasting Apple and Microsoft, here's the first bit of copy on the Signature page:
"New PCs may come filled with lots of trialware and sample software that slows your computer down and makes it a pain to clean out all that stuff, just to get your new PC up and running, so we do that for you!"
Not only is that a hilarious contrast of the typical Mac/Windows out-of-the-box experience — right from the horse's mouth — but it's also quite poor writing. Whereas, Apple seems to have consistently excellent writing throughout their websites and products.