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ethomaz said:

WOW She expects 1 phone model to sell 80 million in one quarter... AMAZING if that happened.

Of course the Android adoption rate is better... you can found Android phones from $10 to $500 with zillion models... iPhone is $300-500 range with one model... here she said the obvious.


That right there is why in terms of money and profit Apple is such a beast. (Even if 80m is optimistic)

From the software point of view:

Manufacturers pay nothing for Android and "pennies" for Windows RT... sure if you look hard enough you can fnd details online.

So even if Windows RT (excluding surface) and Android greatly outsell iOS, Apple comes out far richer.

From the hardware point of view:

Android's flagship Samsung is making damn good money.

Apple collects on every piece of hardware.

Surface is wait and see for MS.

Nokia windows 8 phone is looking disappointing.



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disolitude said:
Here is an interesting stat - http://microsoft-news.com/windows-8-overtake-android-web-presence-in-less-than-10-days/

Interesting bits -

"Statcounter has handy daily stats on web traffic from their thousands of sensor sites on the internet, and from there we can plot the above graph, which shows the web presence of Windows 8 has more than doubled since its release on the 26th October, and that its web presence has decisively overtaken that of Android 3 days ago."

"It should take less than a month for Windows 8 to overtake all of iOS’s web presence, which exposes the “Post-PC” propaganda for the lie it is"


A few points:

1. Statcounter completely ignores the iPad, which represents the bulk of iOS web usage. I'm not sure if they even count iPod Touch users.

2. Statcounter counts every single hit a web site gets. So a PC user spamming refresh on a blog will generate one point every single time, while a user who checks the hours of a store will generate a single point in their metrics. The PC user generates far more hits, but is he really a more important user than the guy doing a single search for store hours?

3. Finally, it's well known that a great deal of mobile internet usage is buried in apps, where Statcounter cannot analyze it.

I'll leave you with one more interesting, but misleading, metric. Email use:

http://emailclientmarketshare.com

Here iOS is represents 31% of usage, but the problem is that the methodology relies on the client displaying images. Not all clients do. 



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pezus said:
man-bear-pig said:
pezus said:
man-bear-pig said:

Actually, it's funny you keep mentioning the price now as an advantage for Android phones but back when you were going on about having pre-ordered the iPhone 5 you kept saying it was cheap (just as cheap as competing phones) because of the contracts. 


This is one of the most ridiculous posts I've ever read. I won't even justified it by giving you an answer. Lol...

It's because you don't know the answer. You just contradict yourself too much.


Lol...your just too much. Are you being serious? I hope for your sake that you're not.



pezus said:
man-bear-pig said:


Lol...your just too much. Are you being serious? I hope for your sake that you're not.

Yes. Reply to me again when you can actually answer my post without these retorts of yours.


Wow...just wow. 

Re-read my post and then re-read your post and then you'll realise how ridiculous you sound. 

On a side note, you shouldn't be so defensive of android/offensive of apple. It's not healthy.