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99.6 Percent of New Smartphones Run Android or iOS (theverge.com)
The latest smartphone figures from Gartner show how much iOS and Android are dominating the smartphone market. According to the report, Android and iOS accounted for 99.6 percent of all smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2016. For comparison, this figure was 96.8 percent in the second quarter of 2015. The Verge reports: Of the 432 million smartphones sold in the last quarter, 352 million ran Android (81.7 percent) and 77 million ran iOS (17.9 percent), but what happened to the other players? Well, in the same quarter, Windows Phone managed to round up 0.3 percent of the market, while BlackBerry was reduced to a rounding error. The once-great firm sold just over 200,000 units, amounting to 0.0 percent market share. It's worth noting that although, in retrospect, this state of affairs seems inescapable, for years analysts were predicting otherwise. Three years ago, Gartner said that Microsoft's mobile OS would overtake iOS for market share in 2017, while BlackBerry would still be hanging around as sizable (if small) player.
Proves the worth of analysts. Gartner is just a Microsoft shill.
Blackberry OS is mostly dead, tizen and so on never really started and other custom OS run on phones which are not called smartphones.
What makes me feel like this is just some bullshit marketng post is, how do you sell 0.4 of a phone, or 0.9 of a phone... All of those "units sold" should be whole numbers.
Erm... they're talking in percentages. When you're talking in the terms of 446 million units, a tenth of a percent is 460,000 units... Which is still significant.
They aren't selling 0.3 of a phone, they are taking 0.3% of the market which means they're selling 1.3 million phones.
What this report emphasises (without trying to say it) is that the windows phone market has been in decline for years. In 2015 I believe they had 2% and at their peak, 4%. What the report also doesn't say (because when they haven't got their tongue up Microsoft's arse, Gartner are vigorously trying to shove it up Apple's arse) is that the smartphone market is really the Android market.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Its pretty clear from Gartner's predictions 3 years ago which company was paying them the most money among M$, Apple and others.
Gartner's predictions eerily parallel the amount of money vendors pay them yet it never seems to matter to them or their customers that they are so consistently wrong.
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That means a bunch of old people got duped into buying a cell with Windows Phone. Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves! ;)
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Worldwide smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2016. (Thousands of units.)
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Gartner are vigorously trying to shove it up Apple's arse) is that the smartphone market is really the Android market.
That's not really true. From the report, the iOS market is around 22% of the size of the Android market. That's a much higher ratio than the size of the Mac market to the Windows market has ever been. Even that doesn't tell the whole story, because a large part of the Android market is very low-end phones, with razor-thin margins for the manufacturer and very few app sales. This is important to the sort of people reading this kind of report, because they care about what the return on investment will be from supporting a given platform. It doesn't matter that Android completely dominates in the poorer parts of Africa, India, and China to the extent that iOS is a rounding error, it matters what phones the people with money to spend on your product have.
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Nobody except Gartner believes most of what they predict anyway. Did anyone really think that Microsofts n-th attempt to make a phone OS would be any more successful than the previous ones?
I'm surprised that Blackberry fell so deep, because it still has a strong foothold in the finance and some other highly security-conscious industries (military, etc.) and some of its security features are still unique.
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What makes me feel like this is just some bullshit marketng post is, how do you sell 0.4 of a phone, or 0.9 of a phone... All of those "units sold" should be whole numbers.
Fuckin' percentages, how do they work?
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So how did the Kool-Aid taste?
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The relaunch of the Nokia 3310 later this year may be interesting for a dumbphone.
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Actually Android runs on a Linux Kernel so you could say most of them are running Linux
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My phone running GNU\Linux is obviously a mythical beast then...
Which make and model of phone runs GNU/Linux? If it's the one I think you're talking about (Nokia N900), it's probably "a mythical beast" in Slashdot's home country. Can it even connect to modern networks now that AT&T is phasing out GSM service in favor of expanding LTE?
The best way to be within the 0.1% ;-)
On top of a Fairphone hardware for instance...
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If 432 million smart phones are sold per quarter that is 1.6 billion per year. One group predicts around 4.77 billion cell phone users by the end of 2017, though that includes both smart phones and less sophisticated phones. If we said that half of those phones are smart that means the number of smart phones is somewhere around 2.4 billion. We already know we are closing in on saturation as the remainder of the world's ~6.8 billion people are not necessarily potential customers for cell service.
So if 1.6 billion of the 2.4 billion smart phones in use today were purchased in the past year, does that suggest that on average over half the world's smart phones last under a year?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
...I hope that we can come together and agree that it's sad and hilarious that companies like Gartner exist and consistently make such completely asinine predictions about anything at all.
Every year some analyst predicts something absolutely stupid that all of us know is impossible. I hope whoever made this call knows that they are bad and they should feel bad.
Which make and model of phone runs GNU/Linux? If it's the one I think you're talking about (Nokia N900), it's probably "a mythical beast" in Slashdot's home country. Can it even connect to modern networks now that AT&T is phasing out GSM service in favor of expanding LTE?
It's a Jolla C running Sailfish OS manufactured last year by Intex (India), its modem is designed for Europe so I guess it won't be that happy in the US of A.
A better graph tells a thousand words:
http://cdn.bgr.com/2013/03/com...
Android sells more units but Apple makes almost all of the profits in the smartphone space. In Android presumably Google makes a good profits off ad delivery, and Samsung makes decent profits (used to be higher but never even a fraction of Apples), and the rest of the handset makers break even or lose money.
As a developer I stay on iOS because the revenues are so much higher for iOS apps, still about double the Google play store last I checked. The implication is that most android phones are used as "feature phones", their owners don't buy apps or spend money. Apple's refusal to go downmarket and make $100 or $200 phones hasn't hurt them, even though Android has always out-volumed them over the last 5 years. I'm not sure that will change in the future.
The difference between iOS/Android and Macintosh/Windows back when they launched is that Windows could run most all your existing software, while today iOS has the best apps. Adopting Macintosh in the 80s meant replacing your PCs and adopting new applications, adopting Windows meant running Lotus 123 in dos mode while slowly adopting new applications and slowly replacing PCs. Today apps probably mean a lot less, and where it does iOS has the best apps, partly due to market size and also because of ease of development (massive rapid penetration of current OS versions, a small set of screen sizes, etc).
Everyone who feels an urge to be "the best kind of correct" about Android's use of Linux as its kernel makes me appreciate how Stallman got it right about using the term "GNU/Linux" to distinguish it from the completely different Android userland.
Not sure why this was down-modded, as the parent is completely right!
Perhaps the subject is distasteful, otherwise the content is spot-on.
he tried to be a second rate Google on connectivity
Perhaps you meant, second rate Google on abusing people's privacy and sucking as much of their data as they can get their hand on, and selling it to the highest bidder, like insurance agencies and the gov? ... But then again, Microsoft has always been "second rate" when it comes to copying others, first IBM, and Lotus, then Apple for a very long time, never quite measuring up to the UI of MacOS and OSX.
The news is to the right of the decimal point. We all knew it was 99 point something.
Back in the days of the BlackBerry Curve, they basically did something close enough to that. Unfortunately, once BlackBerry 10 came around, they totally forgot the importance of having a cheap-low-end even if its not profitable. You basically need those junk devices to build your platform's userbase to the level that people care about it enough to support your better devices.
Microsoft understood this back when they were more seriously pushing the various Windows Phone incarnations. Unfortunately, they failed to provide a compelling platform for anyone who wanted something more than "the cheap thing the phone store was offering for scraps." This kept things going for a while, and did result in a larger (if still unimpressive) userbase than BlackBerry 10 managed, but wasn't enough long-term.
t doesn't matter that Android completely dominates in the poorer parts of Africa, India, and China
Right, but only up to a point. If you have to travel to Africa and live there for some time, and the local apps (informing of the danger of crocodile infestation, for example) are only developed for Android, then it matters a bit for you that you only have an iOS device (that bit being perhaps the hand lost to a crocodile's bite).
Market share is always important, and one platform tends to push others out, as the cost of developing for more than one platform is always bigger than developing for just one. In the long run, "there can be only one".
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Errm, are there in fact any local apps that a foreigner in the country would care about? I doubt it, but what do I know.
What the report also doesn't say ... is that the smartphone market is really the Android market.
Because it isn't true. Android is dominant, but Apple still hangs onto a significant and lucrative portion of it. Not that I will shed a tear when Apple finally goes the way of Blackberry, but I fervently hope that viable forks of Android/Linux are well established by then, otherwise we the world are truly in trouble.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Five years out of date. Even though we know how it continues, that graph does not tell us.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Completely agree with you, that Apple dominates the market of shallow prats.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
No love for my JAVA OS run phone?