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1 In 2 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Owners To Switch To iPhone 7, Says Analyst (softpedia.com)
Branding Brand recently conducted a post-recall study asking Samsung Galaxy Note 7 users which smartphones they would consider upgrading to. While 40 percent of them said they are ready to jump ship to a different manufacturer, 30 percent of respondents said they are likely going to be switching to the iPhone. However, according to one analyst, that number could be even higher. Softpedia reports: KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a note to investors that approximately 50 percent of those who ordered a Note 7 are now very likely to go for an iPhone 7, as customer trust is collapsing in the Samsung ecosystem and all these buyers are no longer planning to stick with phones manufactured by the South Korean firm. Between 5 to 7 million Note 7 orders are likely to transfer to Apple, the analyst says, and the iPhone 7 Plus is expected to be the main model benefitting from this transition. Other Android phone manufacturers, including Huawei, are also likely to benefit from Samsung's fiasco, and Google itself could also record an increase in Pixel sales following the Note 7 demise. But Apple will certainly take the lion's share here, mostly thanks to the iPhone 7 Plus currently being positioned as a direct rival to the Note 7.
Yes, all 3 of them.
The analyst cited in the article has a pretty good repuation (Google him). Doesn't seem prudent to outright reject his projections because you disagree with them.
Switching from Galaxy Note 7 to an Amazon Fire Phone... *ba-dum-tshh*
... I'll see myself out ...
I think a lot of people assume it's a Samsung ecosystem they're switching out of, not Android.
I also think a lot of people, myself included, assume analysts are full of hot air.
Causality breakdown detected.
It may be people spend less money on Android apps because they want to spend less money on the total package. If that were true, it would follow that they would never buy an expensive iPhone in the first place, regardless of the ecosystem or apps.
On the other hand, if they're avoiding expensive phones, they wouldn't have bought a Note 7 either.
Most people (e.g. people that don't post to Slashdot) don't give a shit about all the capabilities that Android has.
They want a big technoslab that they can text from, look shit up on the web, take selfies and post them to the Book of Faces, read reviews about the place they are going to eat, get directions to that place, and occasionally make phone calls.
Just about any phone out there, including the iPhone, meets those "requirements".
Also, your loose comparison of the iPhone 7 to a moped is ridiculous, and shows bias.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Except Apple is hardly competition for someone who wants an Android.
But what you don't see, is that, outside of Slashdot and some other "Geek" sites, not very many people even know what an "Android" is, other than Commander Data.
But they know Samsung and they know Apple/iPhone. And they know one of them just screwed up royally, and their name is Samsung.
So in their minds, that leaves "the other guys" (Apple).