Comments on: Android Continues to Dominate: Smartphone Marketshare Now at 72.4%

By: Rob Williams

Rob Williams — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:12:00 +0000

If iOS powers most of the world’s tablets, that’s something I’d take to heart. It means the ecosystem is good, and you’d have a hard time going wrong with picking up an iPad. As for it remaining dominant through to 2017, I think that’s a bit hasty. The iPad hasn’t even been out for 5 years yet, so how on earth can predictions be made 5 years down the road in a market that has already changed so much in just the past couple of years?

I agree with that Forbes statement for the most part. Apple has a good cycle going. If iOS is Windows, Android is definitely Linux. Rapid releases but ridiculous fragmentation.

By: e550mercedes

e550mercedes — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:05:00 +0000

If that’s the case, then iOS with the most tablets in most people’s hands, and expected to stay that way until 2017 at the very earliest, then iOS must really matter to you as far as tablets goes tablets?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/ipad-to-dominate-tablet-downloads-for-next-five-years-owning-56-in-2017-analyst/

By: Rob Williams

Rob Williams — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:43:00 +0000

Profit matters to Apple and its shareholders, that’s it. What matters to me, as a consumer (or an app developer) is which is in the hands of more people.

By: e550mercedes

e550mercedes — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:35:00 +0000

Despite these facts, the most important fact is that iOS takes in almost 74% of the entire mobile profit…. worldwide! This includes both dumb and smartphones combined! One of the reasons Android gained was because people were waiting for the iPHone 5, which was considerably delayed as we all know.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/darcytravlos/2012/08/22/five-reasons-why-google-android-versus-apple-ios-market-share-numbers-dont-matter/

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ios-gains-5-percent-market-185700231.html

By: Marfig

Marfig — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:56:00 +0000

Unfortunately we have the markets. Its a strange following, that was actually created by scientists — who later lost control of it — to test water flow dynamics and bird flock behavior. Deprived of much intelligence, but with a keen sense of self-preservation, this group somewhat surprisingly developed a great interest in money.

“Oh, Money is Good!” is about the only words their low intellect can muster. And this is why you can hear large crowds screaming “OMG! OMG!” every time something new and interesting happens. They haven’t lost the purpose for which they were created though. And those cries are immediately followed by all of them buying or all them selling, simulating beautiful bird flock patterns and the motion of the seas. You will never see half of them buying or half of them selling.

Their low intelligence does not allow them to make their own decisions or properly evaluate the consequences of those decisions. They need help from all kinds of therapists to actually do something. These come in the form of Financial Analysts, that are the therapist equivalent of a discount coupon for a guns shop.

So, when Google sells more Androids, or Apple sells more iPads, our markets react like the patterns of the sea. Beautiful deadly stuff.

By: Rob Williams

Rob Williams — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:34:00 +0000

I’d bet that most accessory vendors earn more revenue off each sale than some of the smartphone vendors do with certain models. Earning $20 or so on every $0.50 of material molded into a cover? It’s crazy.

By: lrd555

lrd555 — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:42:00 +0000

Windows has 94% market share and MS makes a whole lot of $ from it. And look @ the mess Microsft’s in. Android makes more $ for Samsung now than Google will ever see from Android.

As a matter of almost certainty, Apple makes more money from iPad covers than Google does from Android. Yes, iPad covers- laughable.