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Gartner: Android Accounted For 72% Of Smartphone Sales In Q3
- diminish 14y agofascinating growth for android in market share and surprised to see ios lose market share from 11Q3 to 12Q3 from 15% to 13.9%, and Microsoft gained too.
- gte910h 14y agoDishonest title: iPhone5, the only Apple phone released in 2012, came out 9 days before end of quarter, only for some regions, then 2 days before end of the quarter for a few more, then Q4, for still more. This title is like saying "We didn't sell many burgers today" when you only started selling burgers 10 minutes before close" http://www.zdnet.com/apple-q4-2012-hardware-sales-by-the-numbers-7000006435/ http://www.zdnet.com/apple-q4-2012-hardware-sales-by-the-num... (Apple's "Q4" is actually calendar year Q3 for the chart in this article) to see the spikes in the sales graph. Additionally, Verizon customers who got the iPhone4 when it first came out didn't become upgrade eligible for 3 weeks after the release of iPhone5 Quarterly numbers are silly to look at when comparing Apples to Androids, as Apple has a yearly release cycle, and Android phones a functionally continuous release cycle, so you're not getting accurate rate numbers by sampling too frequently.