Zlejedi said:
I think you have it completly wrong. Data transfer is reasonably cheap - data plans are expensive because you have to subsidiaze $500 phones with them in two years. We have plenty of cheap 15-20 euro/month plans with low end android phones in here. And if i brough my own smartphone into the network i could get 500 MB for like 7 euro per month |
That's 7 Euro just for data, right? You need to buy voice/ SMS/whatever else you want on top of it?
Still, that's a great deal. Here in Canada, you can't get a smartphone contract for much less than $60 for three years, and only about $13 of that is subsidizing the phone. US rates aren't much cheaper, last I saw.
So if phone plans are so much cheaper in Europe, why isn't Android doing better worldwide than it is in expensive North America? If you take Nokia's market share out of the picture, Android claims roughly the same market share as it does in the US. A little under, actually. Shouldn't cheap data, cheap phones, and Android's strong ecosystem and feature set be driving it faster in Europe?
Sources:
http://www.businessinsider.com/android-us-marketshare-2011-6
http://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/news/news-anaylsis/8639-android-surges-ahead-in-europe-
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