Android more popular than iPhone in the UK ?

glenimp617 · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:01

so android

Samsung, Sony, HTC, Motorola, Google, LG combined were able to sell a little more than Apple on their own. Considering androids price range is between £40 - £600 whereas Apple starts at well over £400, seems pretty bad to be honest!

well good for Apple

amazing how a single company can sell nearly as many as everyone else put together

and I'm shocked looking at that graph at how badly Microsoft are doing. That's really quite terrible.

Caged · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:02

airwave99 said:
I wonder which has generated more £'s of sales, iPhone or Android phone. I'm sure the average iPhone is quite a bit more expensive than the average Android phone.

Only two of the well known smartphone manufacturers make money:

http://www.businessinsider.com/appl...-of-the-smartphone-industries-profits-2013-11

Jokester · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:06

The graph looks completely made up.

Caged · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:07

I think they got as far as week 50 and then made the rest up

Mynight · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:08

I'm a bit confused about the "unknown" os

surely it should be included in other. How can you not know os

Caged · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:09

Mynight said:
I am interested in the windows adoption rate. Makes me wonder if I should learn their phones sdk

As a third platform it can't hurt. I imagine there will be people willing to pay for app development just to tick the box and there's probably not a huge amount of people working on it at the moment.

If you're looking at it as an alternative to iOS expecting it to surpass it sometime soon then there's no point learning the current SDK as it will look a lot different by the time that happens

QlimaxUK · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:10

IM AN ANDROID

Glaucus · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:11

Mynight said:
I'm a bit confused about the "unknown" os surely it should be included in other. How can you not know os

It apparently does it on website hits, although as said the graph looks totally wrong compared to every other stat site out there.
So I expect unknown, is people who have private browsing/can't determine. Where others are known OSs just so few its not worth listing.

esoteric · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:12

Samsung and Apple taking all the monies and aren't even putting out the best phones :<

I also heard a rumour that HTC might be dead this year, which is a shame because they did put out the best phone of last year, HTC One. And Nokia won a big lawsuit against them and got imbargo's put on all but 2 phones iirc.

Mynight · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:13

Caged said:
As a third platform it can't hurt. I imagine there will be people willing to pay for app development just to tick the box and there's probably not a huge amount of people working on it at the moment.

If you're looking at it as an alternative to iOS expecting it to surpass it sometime soon then there's no point learning the current SDK as it will look a lot different by the time that happens

Very true. Ill give it a shot see what its like. At £15 its hardly going to break the bank to try it

Glaucus · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:13

Mynight said:
I don't really trust that graph. Series 40 cannot have increased its market share since it isn't a smartphone os and I didn't think nokia was producing phones again yet

Android is much more popular due to its low costs and to be honest it equals the iPhone in hardware and even surpasses it in user friendliness.

I am interested in the windows adoption rate. Makes me wonder if I should learn their phones sdk

Its worth learning. People don't pay for android apps(just lucky android has such a lead and so has to be catered for), people do pay on wp8 and iOS and it looks like at least in EU, that wp8 will have a significant lead by the end of the year, unless apple u-turn and release a sub £150 phone.

Caged · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:15

HTC deserve everything they get because even when they are fighting for survival they still see fit to support their handsets with updates for about as long as a goldfish remembers last swimming past the little castle. Their only customers were people who sought out their products and instead of rewarding this with some effort they decide the best way to operate is to stick two fingers up to everyone who is an existing customer and try to chase some new ones down.

If HTC go under I won't be sad at all.

GTanny · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:15

Dimple said:
Samsung Galaxy phones are the choice of chavs obviously

Fixed

also graph is clearly fake its highly unlikely to change that dramatic over a few weeks while being so consistant over the previous period

Mynight · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:16

Glaucus said:
It apparently does it on website hits, although as said the graph looks totally wrong compared to every other stat site out there.
So I expect unknown, is people who have private browsing/can't determine. Where others are known OSs just so few its not worth listing.

Very good point I hadn't considered that aspect. I didn't even think series 40 was html capable. I wonder how this data was "collected" (or indeed even if it was

).

SexyGreyFox · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:16

glen8 said:
Samsung, Sony, HTC, Motorola, Google, LG combined were able to sell a little more than Apple on their own. Considering androids price range is between £40 - £600 whereas Apple starts at well over £400, seems pretty bad to be honest!

well good for Apple

This to be honest, people go to buy an Android and can spend as little as they want.
I use an S3 but I've had to go back to my S1 a couple of times and it's still a great phone but now you can buy an Android with S1 specs for sub £100 (I think).
I had to use an original San Fransisco for a week and that was painful.
At least with Apple you know what you are getting which is a bloody good gadget.

Glaucus · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:16

esoteric said:
Samsung and Apple taking all the monies and aren't even putting out the best phones :<

I also heard a rumour that HTC might be dead this year, which is a shame because they did put out the best phone of last year, HTC One. And Nokia won a big lawsuit against them and got imbargo's put on all but 2 phones iirc.

There's only really room for one big player in each market
Apple, Samsung and Nokia.

Everyone skated Nokia for not going android, but this is exactly why they didn't, there's not enough room. Better to have 90% of the wp8 market that is growing than a percentage point in android market and end up like htc and the rest. they really missed the boat on mobile devices though, just like MS so its been and still is a hard slog, but the results are starting to show.

Malevolence · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:44

Rroff · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:47

People are typically more likely to own multiple Android devices and/or buy more frequently - I know a lot of people who have a cheaper android phone (for nights out, etc. I believe sometimes referred to as a "stunt phone") + an iphone or another more expensive android phone.

Dave**** · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:48

I was trying to explain to someone the other day why Android apps will vary in performance from phone to phone in contrast to Apple apps but they just didn't understand. Their viewpoint was just: Android is bad, end of. :rolleyes:

Mynight · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:49

Rroff said:
People are typically more likely to own multiple Android devices and/or buy more frequently - I know a lot of people who have a cheaper android phone (for nights out, etc. I believe sometimes referred to as a "stunt phone") + an iphone or another more expensive android phone.

Quite a good idea really. When I worked in a club at the end of a few nights we had upwards of £3k in phones lost.

Dave**** said:
I was trying to explain to someone the other day why Android apps will vary in performance from phone to phone in contrast to Apple apps but they just didn't understand. Their viewpoint was just: Android is bad, end of.

I think a lot of issues with the variation between android is the bloat ware used by certain manufacturers along with the random intervals between updates. It can be a real sod to develop for.