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Be careful when drawing conclusions based on market share. Usage share is the more relevant statistic, although unfortunately more difficult to measure. Apple's
by adamlett 9y ago
Be careful when drawing conclusions based on market share. Usage share is the more relevant statistic, although unfortunately more difficult to measure. Apple's usage share is almost certainly significantly higher than their market share, because iPhones are premium devices that get used for many years, whereas many Android phones are cheap devices with a significantly shorter lifespan as useful devices.
- bitmapbrother 9y agoYou can also buy many premium Android phones at half or a third of the price of an iPhone depending on the specifications you want. I also don't know where you get this idea that cheap Android devices have a significantly shorter lifespan. These phones don't just suddenly die or expire by a certain date. I have an old Galaxy S2, a phone released in 2011, that works well to this day.
- adamlett 9y agoI get the idea because it's a measurable fact. Yes, in principle you can keep using your phone for as long as it is able to turn on. In practice cheap phones have worse built quality, often ship with versions of Android that are obsolete on arrival and/or do not receive updates. And in general, items that cost more are better taken care of. In the aggregate all of these mean that cheaper phones have a shorter expected lifespan than iPhones.