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whole article comes only with 'hunches' and not a single data point researched. it conveniently ignores many facts and makes up some, like Androids being the c

whole article comes only with 'hunches' and not a single data point researched. it conveniently ignores many facts and makes up some, like Androids being the cheaper, low quality choice, ignoring there are devices sold for as much as iPhones. one could argue that those are sold in lower volumes, but then that'd be a gaussian distribution also, of course economics stats are not a good fit for a gaussian. they tend to stabilize around exponential. that's why the price pyramid is a pyramid. I have to concede that by looking at some data, it seems there is a exponential distribution going on for all price ranges except at the highest end, but that's more a hint of the product price/features space being discontinuous than we being in a post scarcity society where gaussian/exponential distributions suddenly vanish. but anyway, the fact remains that the data is out there, even for the other field, this on smartphone is but one of the many he didn't research preferring to follow intuition. and human brain is very bad at applying intuition to statistics. http://image.slidesharecdn.com/tomiahonen-engagewithmobile-wsa-abudhabi2015-150220083444-conversion-gate01/95/tomi-ahonen-engage-with-mobile-at-wsamobile-global-congress-abu-dhabi-38-638.jpg?cb=1424442956 http://image.slidesharecdn.com/tomiahonen-engagewithmobile-w... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uY7kRAl6XfA/URibddfrTqI/AAAAAAAAPLI/pnN9ivxjtt0/s1600/Smartphone+Sales+Distibution+by+ASP.png http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uY7kRAl6XfA/URibddfrTqI/AAAAAAAAPL...

coldtea 11y ago
>it conveniently ignores many facts and makes up some, like Androids being the cheaper, low quality choice, ignoring there are devices sold for as much as iPhones. He absolutely does not ignore that fact, in fact he specifically says that the better end of the market is either iOS or high-end Android phones. Obviously (and all market data point to that), the Android phones that sell more are not the high end units, but the cheapo units that dominate the "free with subscription", "prepaid" etc market.

coldtea 11y ago

>it conveniently ignores many facts and makes up some, like Androids being the cheaper, low quality choice, ignoring there are devices sold for as much as iPhones. He absolutely does not ignore that fact, in fact he specifically says that the better end of the market is either iOS or high-end Android phones. Obviously (and all market data point to that), the Android phones that sell more are not the high end units, but the cheapo units that dominate the "free with subscription", "prepaid" etc market.