Teeqoz said:
LurkerJ said:
Oh. lol. Well, for your information the iPhone is by far the most popular smartphone almost everywhere. iPads sales are declining, sure, like every other tablet, but they are still the most popular tablets everywhere too.
Excuse me if I take your highly inaccurate observation with a grain of salt and stick to the facts and numbers.
As for "iPhones are garbage", that's your personal opinion and funny enough, it's probably the only part in your post that worth paying attention to because the rest is false 
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Actually the rest is true, it's just that it's anecdotal. That doesn't make it false though. And in some way he's right, Apple are losing marketshare, it's just that the smartphone market is growing enough to keepi Iphone numbers on a slight upwards trajectory.
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Hmmm, I thought that smartphone market growth is slowing down, with some signs of contraction seen in China. It's a little hard to measure deltas with any accuracy since Apple is still the only phone maker that accurately reports actual unit sales, and the data for other companies relies on analyst guesstimates.
As for slight upwards trajectory, it depends on what you mean by "slight":
http://media2.giga.de/2015/09/statistic_id263401_apple-iphone-unit-sales-worldwide-2007-2015-by-quarter-rcm992x0.png
Grouping these by Q4-Q3 which is the current release cycle (thus dropping the initial launch quarter), we get the following annual totals:
| 2007 |
5.86 million |
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2008
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20.25 million |
| 2009 |
33.26 million |
| 2010 |
69.33 million |
| 2011 |
115.2 million |
| 2012 |
143.37 million |
| 2013 |
163.75 million |
| 2014 |
222.44 million |
36% year-over-year growth seems pretty substantial in a market that is supposedly growing only in the low double-digits or single digits. Are you sure they are losing marketshare?
