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Android Users Are So Committed that Exploding Note 7 Did Little To Help Apple: NPD (appleinsider.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Like loyalty to a political party or hometown sports team, smartphone users are extremely passionate about their choices -- a commitment that led many customers to stick with Samsung, despite the disaster of its downright dangerous Galaxy Note 7. Earlier this week, mobile analytics firm Flurry published data from the holiday season, showing that Apple saw twice as many device activations as rival Samsung. Despite Apple's continued commanding lead in holiday sales of smartphones and tablets, however, the numbers suggested Apple's share was lower and Samsung's was slightly higher from last year. Attempting to explain the trends shown in the data, NPD analyst Stephen Baker told The Wall Street Journal he believes that Android loyalists are committed, and even dangerous exploding batteries in the Galaxy Note 7 were not enough to push significant numbers of customers over to the iPhone. "Most of those who bought or wanted to buy a Note 7 opted for a different high-end Galaxy phone," Baker said.
You can't buy a new iOS phone that has a headphone jack.
What is stopping you from buying a new iPhone 6s?
Certainly not Apple; they are still in production...
If you truly believe that lack of a headphone jack is a dead-end idea then it should be back with the iPhone 8, correct?
What do you want to bet that will happen, vs. MANY other Android phone makers taking out the headphone jack in the coming year?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
What you said was absurd, which I was showing in the simplest way possible, since I've been seeing your posts a lot and it is clear that complicated isn't your forte.
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