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by benedictevans 12y ago
No, i's pretty telling that you're so keen to shout 'gotcha!' that you miss the point ;) If you use maps once a year to drive on holiday, you're not using it every week, are you? How many people use these services A
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by benedictevans 12y ago
Idle observation - Windows Phone year-on-year growth is way higher than Android or iOS. Are you going to write your next app for that? We don't, actually, have enough data to see quite how Play revenue is growing. But the really releva
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by benedictevans 12y ago
Thanks for the comment. I think what you've missed is that the attitude you describe is shared by a very, very small proportion of the user base - perhaps a few tens of millions out of the 1bn+ Android users. I had a go at estimating t
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by benedictevans 12y ago
ROTFL at mobile sniffing as a premium feature in a consumer product segment selling 400m units a year. Thanks!
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by benedictevans 12y ago
That's not what I wrote. I said that iOS8 addresses some of these points, with keyboards as just one example, and that the key difference is now personal taste rather than screen size or availability. Clearly some people prefer iOS and
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by benedictevans 12y ago
Actually, I quoted utterly uncontroversial, industry standard stats. I'd response to your other points, but I don't quite understand what you're trying to say. Apple sold around 20% of all smartphones in Q4 2013 (it's pr
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by benedictevans 12y ago
App store revenue is not really relevant to Apple or Google - it's small as a proportion of either company. It is, though, relevant to developers - partly for its own value, but as importantly for what it tells you about the users. Tha
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by benedictevans 12y ago
To paraphrase, "this prompts the suggestion that X is the case. However, it is not". It's a rhetorical question.
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by benedictevans 13y ago
If you'd read the post, you'd know that it includes iPod Touches only. And neither Xboxes nor servers are personal computing devices.
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by benedictevans 13y ago
I left a sample of very silly comments up but got bored of telling people to read the post before commenting, and deleting trolls. I'm comparing the dominant computing platform of the last 30 years with the niche player in mobile. As t
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by benedictevans 13y ago
um... "It's unfair (or perhaps incomplete) to blame Google for this"
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by benedictevans 13y ago
The GS4 is also a (small) minority phone, as indeed are all Android high end phones. The great majority of the Android volume is at $2-300.
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by benedictevans 14y ago
Settle down, Beavis. http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/ "Nikesh oversees all revenue and customer operations" - revenue, and more. Two SVPs are listed for specifically for engineering, both Indian. Android and Chrome, o