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* dominate the low-end of the market. Apple has the platform where users have money to spend on apps and services.
by nr2x 3y ago
* dominate the low-end of the market. Apple has the platform where users have money to spend on apps and services.
- 76SlashDolphin 3y ago* dominate the global market. Apple is a very minor player outside of the US and Japan.
- throwaway2037 3y ago"very minor player": I do not agree. I Googled for: "iphone market share by country" Here is the top hit: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-market-share-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma... What is wild to me: This is a single company. Android has a huge number of makers.
- canjobear 3y agoNearly 100% in North Korea!
- nr2x 3y agoI’m not in favor of it, but most of the global market is too poor to matter. One of the things I do respect Google for is providing services to poor people, but that doesn’t mean it’s a business advantage. If you offered me control of the entire Android ecosystem or just Apples iPhone business I’d not even blink to take Apple.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoThey also have the majority of profits in mobile phone sales.
- rvba 3y agoFrom technical perspective apple phones are usually few years behind competition.
- pharmakom 3y agoExcept in CPU / GPU which is a strange state of affairs.
- sentinalien 3y agoReally depends on what you're thinking of when you say technical
- rvba 3y agoMy Samsung phone was waterproof long before Apple had it.
- salad-tycoon 3y agoI bought an s7 or s10 which was waterproof and took photos under the water. Iirc apple was rumored to also be waterproof at the time but it was advertised. I don’t know how true these things were. Did anyone else get this perception?