It's Official: Apple Is Just A Niche Player In Smartphones Now - Android dominates

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pezus said:

"I find the Android OS more easily maneuverable than iOS, for basic reasons such as the presence of a pull down menu listing your apps in use, and the presence of a back button on the phone instead of having to hunt for an arrow within each app to return to the previous screen. Other little things bother me about iOS 6, such as the more difficult steps you must take to sign out of some apps that are operating in the background. " - Yes, this is a quote I stole that I agree with.

Also, that battery comment is blatantly false. My brother has an iPhone 5 and has to charge it each day, because it doesn't last two days. Also basically all tests have shown that the comparable phone Galaxy S3's battery life greatly outshines the iPhone 5's. I mean, it's beaten easily by many of the biggest Android phones.

Not hard to figure out how this test was misleading. By setting brightness to maximum, you handicap a phone just for having a more powerful backlight. The iPhone 5 display is twice as bright at maximum as the SGS3:

Which is why Anandtech calibrates all displays to 200 nits before doing battery tests like this:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/13

Now the iPhone 5 on 3G lands between two different SGS3 SKUs on 3G, and gains almost double battery life if you put it on an LTE network. 

As for market share, Android certainly has it. Not really sure if it's doing any good, since even Google seems to make more money from iOS than they do from Android:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/29/google-earns-more-iphone-android

Assertions that any day now developers are going to make Android their lead mobile platform sound an awful lot like Wii fans like me in 2008. Desite iOS being a "niche player," Apple and their software partners are still growing and still making more money in mobile than anybody else. The App Store is grossing $5.8 billion per year now.