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How is not relevant? Your arguing that "Big surprise Windows (from many different OEM's) outsells OS X (on one)". Yet that obviously has ridiculously huge cons

by enjo 16y ago

How is not relevant? Your arguing that "Big surprise Windows (from many different OEM's) outsells OS X (on one)". Yet that obviously has ridiculously huge consequences to the overall markets. As a developer you can (more or less) release one product that runs on these phones. So those aggregate sales numbers certainly matter a lot. I've long thought that this feels like Mac vs PC part II, and it's certainly looking that way.

gte910h 16y ago
If there was only 1 mac sold, the argument would be analogous. There are several different macs sold however, to fit many different types of of applications, from the mini to the 17 inch powerbook. My argument is that it's strange to see the headline "Android phones outsell Apple phones 2:1 in the US" when there is 1 phone (on a single carrier, the more important point in my opinion) for sale vs a couple dozen. The headline "Android phones combined only sell 2x as many as iPhones being sold", or "Vendors sell 100% more android phones per month than Apple does". I mean, a HUGE percentage of apple phones are sold right after macworld. Q3 numbers are especially deceptive because all the people who bought their post-macworld iPhones in Q2 of course don't need to buy another. Additionally, you have to look at: > "Much of Android's quarterly share growth came at the expense of RIM, rather than Apple," said Ross Rubin, executive director at NPD The article title is misleading: iOS as a smartphone platform is still growing, just slower than android is. iOS as a platform (including iPodTouch and iPad), is growing faster than android is on all devices, however android is gaining parity in the number of smartphones are. I want this to end up more like 30/30/30/various%. It makes for more apps and more consumer choice. I just think the article portrays this like android is eating apple, when actually, apple and android are eating blackberry and winmo 6.5, and android merely eating more of it in the quarter least likely to see strong growth from Apple. I mean, http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010111.html http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010111.html doesn't really fit that well with the idea Android is now beating Apple. It's not, it is however catching up to apple this particular quarter.

by enjo 16y ago

gte910h 16y ago

If there was only 1 mac sold, the argument would be analogous. There are several different macs sold however, to fit many different types of of applications, from the mini to the 17 inch powerbook. My argument is that it's strange to see the headline "Android phones outsell Apple phones 2:1 in the US" when there is 1 phone (on a single carrier, the more important point in my opinion) for sale vs a couple dozen. The headline "Android phones combined only sell 2x as many as iPhones being sold", or "Vendors sell 100% more android phones per month than Apple does". I mean, a HUGE percentage of apple phones are sold right after macworld. Q3 numbers are especially deceptive because all the people who bought their post-macworld iPhones in Q2 of course don't need to buy another. Additionally, you have to look at: > "Much of Android's quarterly share growth came at the expense of RIM, rather than Apple," said Ross Rubin, executive director at NPD The article title is misleading: iOS as a smartphone platform is still growing, just slower than android is. iOS as a platform (including iPodTouch and iPad), is growing faster than android is on all devices, however android is gaining parity in the number of smartphones are. I want this to end up more like 30/30/30/various%. It makes for more apps and more consumer choice. I just think the article portrays this like android is eating apple, when actually, apple and android are eating blackberry and winmo 6.5, and android merely eating more of it in the quarter least likely to see strong growth from Apple. I mean, http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010111.html http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010111.html doesn't really fit that well with the idea Android is now beating Apple. It's not, it is however catching up to apple this particular quarter.