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Haha, no not trolling. Maybe things are different here, then? I'm in Phoenix and there are Android billboards/advertisements everywhere. One of the more bril

by blhack 17y ago

Haha, no not trolling. Maybe things are different here, then? I'm in Phoenix and there are Android billboards/advertisements everywhere. One of the more brilliant ones was something I saw in a mall: it was a multitouch surface mounted in a poster-space running a game; kids were lined up to play it. People are genuinely, organically (as in not prompted by a billboard they just drove post) talking about the Android. Cellphones are something that falls under my umbrella of responsibility at work and I have had several people jokingly beg me to lobby for us to switch from AT&T to verizon so they can get droids. Also, on spotify: are you in the US? I was trying to find my little sister a subscription-based music service she could use on her iPhone and couldn't.

DannoHung 17y ago
Dude, Spotify isn't available in the US, period.
dandelany 17y ago
Anecdotes != evidence. I hate when people make claims like this based only on their own biased perceptions of the situation.
- dandelany 17y ago
  I resent being downvoted for this, and expect more out of HN. You cannot make a claim like "iPhone success is starting to wane in light of the Android" and back that claim up with your own anecdotes about how you hear about and see the Droid more often. This is simply not real evidence that the iPhone's success is declining on a wide scale as you suggest. I'm not saying that the iPhone's success isn't waning in light of the Android. I'm just saying that I, and usually this community in general, require better evidence/citations than "because I see it a lot more now."
  - petercooper 17y ago
    I'm not the person you're responding to, but I wanted to back up my assertion that the iPhone isn't waning. 2008 Q2 global smartphone market share for the iPhone was 2.8%. 2009 Q2 equivalent was 13.3% - http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/13/iphone-market-share-grew-375-in-q2/ http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/13/iphon... Another article shows similar growth from Q2 2008 to Q2 2009 and then continuing on to Q3 2009: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/idc_q3_2009_smartphone_market_grew_iphone_up_android_reaching_critical_mass/ http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/idc_q3_2009_smartphon...

by blhack 17y ago

DannoHung 17y ago

Dude, Spotify isn't available in the US, period.

dandelany 17y ago

Anecdotes != evidence. I hate when people make claims like this based only on their own biased perceptions of the situation.

dandelany 17y ago
I resent being downvoted for this, and expect more out of HN. You cannot make a claim like "iPhone success is starting to wane in light of the Android" and back that claim up with your own anecdotes about how you hear about and see the Droid more often. This is simply not real evidence that the iPhone's success is declining on a wide scale as you suggest. I'm not saying that the iPhone's success isn't waning in light of the Android. I'm just saying that I, and usually this community in general, require better evidence/citations than "because I see it a lot more now."
- petercooper 17y ago
  I'm not the person you're responding to, but I wanted to back up my assertion that the iPhone isn't waning. 2008 Q2 global smartphone market share for the iPhone was 2.8%. 2009 Q2 equivalent was 13.3% - http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/13/iphone-market-share-grew-375-in-q2/ http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/13/iphon... Another article shows similar growth from Q2 2008 to Q2 2009 and then continuing on to Q3 2009: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/idc_q3_2009_smartphone_market_grew_iphone_up_android_reaching_critical_mass/ http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/idc_q3_2009_smartphon...