Android adoption rate increasing six times faster than iPhone

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pezus said:

davygee said:

man-bear-pig said:
What Justinian said.

Also, my granny has an Android phone because it only costed £7.50. I suspect many Android users are people who just buy them becaus they're dirt cheap (like my granny)

Anyway, what's with all the Apple vs. Samsung/ android threads pezus? You've made 3 in the past hour. Do you own shares in Google or Samsung or something?

This will be the issue longterm.  It's all one saying that Android phones are outselling iOS phones by 6 to 1, but in reality, what number of phones running the most up to date Android software are being sold....you will probably find quite alot less.

Considering around 70% of Android users are still using Gingerbread or an older version of the software....this tends to mean that most of these users are generally on lower powered and cheaper units.

Remember, Gingerbread was released about 2 years ago and 70% of users are still using this version or older....so effectively only 30% of Android users are based on mobile sales over the last 2 years as well as upgrades over that time....not a large number.

I don't see how you can come to that conclusion after saying yourself that many new phones are not running the latest software.

I was meaning higher end phones, i.e the Galaxy S3's etc, not the Galaxy Ace's of this world.