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