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Outside the US, and a handful of other countries, Android is far more dominant than iOS (75% vs 25%). [1] WhatsApp has an estimated active userbase of approxim

by NBJack 2y ago

Outside the US, and a handful of other countries, Android is far more dominant than iOS (75% vs 25%). [1] WhatsApp has an estimated active userbase of approximately 3 billion. [2] The number of iMessage users is estimated to be about 1 billion. [3] [1] https://explodingtopics.com/blog/iphone-android-users#iphone-vs-android-global-market-share https://explodingtopics.com/blog/iphone-android-users#iphone... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1306022/whatsapp-global-unique-users/#:~:text=WhatsApp%20is%20estimated%20to%20have%20reached%20almost,channel%20for%20global%20smartphone%20users%20in%202024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1306022/whatsapp-global-... [3] https://usesignhouse.com/blog/imessage-stats/#:~:text=iMessage%3A%20Number%20of%20users,-Want%20a%20link&text=of%20this%20article%3F-,The%20number%20of%20iMessage%20users%20around%20the%20world%20was%20estimated,the%201%20billion%20user%20milestone. https://usesignhouse.com/blog/imessage-stats/#:~:text=iMessa...

ksec 2y ago
On [1], If you only look at countries with decent GDP per Capita. iOS will have anywhere from 40 to 65% market share. Even in China iOS is well over 30%. When you consider Africa + ASEAN + India has 3.5B population and has very low iPhone market share that sort of Skew the figures.
- oasisaimlessly 2y ago
  Yeah, weighting the figures by GDP makes sense. Indeed, poor people aren't really people at all.
  - ksec 2y ago
    [flagged]
  - hownotai 2y ago
    Because it doesn't show an accurate representation. iOS is growing at a faster rate than ever before in developing countries, Apple achieved 11% shipment market share for the first time in India in Q424.
omnimus 2y ago
Sorry but how that invalidates that in my country nobody uses WhatsApp? It doesn't matter at all if they are on Android or iOS. And since iMessages are seamless they are used very often between iOS users.

by NBJack 2y ago

ksec 2y ago

On [1], If you only look at countries with decent GDP per Capita. iOS will have anywhere from 40 to 65% market share. Even in China iOS is well over 30%. When you consider Africa + ASEAN + India has 3.5B population and has very low iPhone market share that sort of Skew the figures.

oasisaimlessly 2y ago
Yeah, weighting the figures by GDP makes sense. Indeed, poor people aren't really people at all.
- ksec 2y ago
  [flagged]
- hownotai 2y ago
  Because it doesn't show an accurate representation. iOS is growing at a faster rate than ever before in developing countries, Apple achieved 11% shipment market share for the first time in India in Q424.

omnimus 2y ago

Sorry but how that invalidates that in my country nobody uses WhatsApp? It doesn't matter at all if they are on Android or iOS. And since iMessages are seamless they are used very often between iOS users.