>> "80% of iPhone users want their next device to run iPhone OS while 70% of Android users want another Android device. This is in stark comparison to other major smartphone players: only 47% of Blackberry users want another Blackberry while only 34% of Windows Mobile users want another Windows Mobile device."
Although that's true, I'm not sure there's much information there. There are always many more people willing to switch away from the most popular platform. Imagine if 10% of Windows users would consider their next machine to possibly be a Mac. Even if 100% of Mac users were planning on buying Windows next, the 10% would outnumber them. While interesting, I'm not sure that statistic is very useful.
The report states that Android users are younger than iPhone users. I think perhaps it is a sign that younger users are the first to adopt a growing platform, then it spread to other age ranges...
Not sure what's going on with this title, but the report states that the iPhone's market share is 28%, while Android's market share is 9% (a factor of 3.1).
Even more surprising to see how strong Windows Mobile still is. Should Steve Balmer have been so negative about where Windows Mobile is now? I see substantial erosion coming over the next 6 months with the new iPhone and constant onslaught of Android devices but I still think it's early to say MS is out of the mobile market.
They're basically starting from scratch with their next iteration, so they're very much behind the iPhone/android.
Their market share is as high as it is only because they've been on the market for so long with previous versions. I believe almost everything is getting scrapped, though, which really decreases the advantage of having such a large user ecosystem.
What has quantity to do with quality and usability?
Don't get me wrong ,I think that Android will grow tremendously and do great, but that is not the point.
It is like on the PC/notebook platform where we have a much bigger Windows user group, but there is the x% Mac users.
After 20 years Windows last year I switched to Mac and I do understand now why some people like it better. I think the iPhone is to some degree similar. Good or bad, but having the hardware, OS and application framework from one company does offer quality and ease. I hope that Android will pick up so the iPhone also gets cheaper and better.
It's not the quantity has much to do with quality and usability, it's that quantity has a lot to do (clearly) with marketshare. The Motley Fool does a pretty good job explaining why the sheer number of manufacturers and models is going to continue to drive growth in Android marketshare: http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2010/05/27/deciphe...
I look at it like this. For years usability and quality difference between DOS (and later Windows) machines and Macs was like night and day. Particularly if you look at the early days of Windows, it was unbelievably primitive compared to Macs of the same era. And yet, because of the number of manufacturers and models of DOS/Windows PC's and the number of sales channels those PC's where sold through, the sales volume for PC's has always dwarfed the sales volume for Macs.
If you look at the Motley Fool's analysis, it's clear that Android will have the same advantages of diversity of models, distribution, etc. over iPhone that PC's have traditionally had over Macs. However, IMHO the situation is even worse for Apple this time, as the quality and usability of the end user experience between iPhone and Android much closer than it was between Mac's and DOS/Windows PC's.
I believe the biggest reason android adoption is so high is the availability of android devices on all major US carriers as opposed to the iPhone being an AT&T exclusive.
Up until this point at least, I think you're correct. I certainly would have liked to have purchased an iPhone since long before Android was ever released, but AT&T's reception in my area is abysmal.
However, even if Apple can get out of their exclusive arrangement with AT&T, it may be too little too late.
Very interesting, but I'm surprised that Android's market share is so weak considering that I've seen reports that Android based web traffic surpassed iPhone traffic last month, while your survey shows Android/iPhone to be at about the same level in terms of usage in the past 30 days.
I wonder if android owners aren't aware that they are running Android.
One of the graphs shows 30% of iPhone users "played pre-installed games" on the iPhone, which as far as I'm aware doesn't feature any pre-installed games. Am I misunderstanding the question?
>> "80% of iPhone users want their next device to run iPhone OS while 70% of Android users want another Android device. This is in stark comparison to other major smartphone players: only 47% of Blackberry users want another Blackberry while only 34% of Windows Mobile users want another Windows Mobile device."