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Jobs' Mob is being routed from the “very clever” phone market by punters who can't get enough of open saucy goodness.
While it was known that Android was doing better than the iphone OS, it looks like it is turning into a rout.
Beancounters at Quantcast have been adding up the numbers based on the web consumption attributable to the manufacturers of mobile devices.
"While the biggest player by far is Apple's iPhone OS, the biggest winner is clearly Google's Android," the report said.
Android continues to capture more share, and if the recent launch of the HTC Incredible on Verizon and Sprint's HTC Evo 4G is anything to go by, Android will continue to rapidly gain share.
What is alarming for Apple is that Android's growth is entirely at its expense. It also does not seem to have been stopped by the iPad either.
The iPad should have increased the number of hits onto the web using the OS. However it seems that if the iPhone OS is losing ground it means that despite increased sales of gismos, either Android sales are going up, or iPhone users are not using the gear much.
It might also be that people are losing interest in Jobs' Mob's walled garden and might be wanting to have a little thing called freedom. The iPhone is starting to look a bit old hat now anyway.
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"Quantcast's latest figures pinned iOS at the top of the mobile Web usage chart with 58.8%. Android followed in a distant second at 19.9%, others commanded 10.9% and Research In Motion Ltd.’s Blackberry OS grabbed 10.4% of the market at the end of May."
Yep, Apple is being routed by Google.
1) There was a big gaping hole in the Verizon smartphone lineup.
2) Verizon 2 for 1 sale
What happens when...
1) That unfulfilled desire for a Verizon smartphone is quenched?
2) Verizon customers get only 1/1?
3) Verizon builds out LTE and finally gets the iPhone?
Android is a phone platform for now - Apple's iOS is an ever expanding ecosystem that dwarfs Android, probably always will.
The other thing is that Apple is practically printing money from every phase of the iDevice universe: the hardware, apps, peripherals, retail sales, e-books, music, movies, TV shows and soon, the iAds. Google still only makes significant money off the search and nothing else. Apple will gladly concede 80% of the marketshare but take 80% of the profit if necessary. (But I don't think that will happen.)
http://applenewsdaily.posterous.com/charts-of-the-week-ipad-browser-share-already
...beating Android, RIMM and iPod Touch.
So if the iPad share was included(it is a mobile device and the chart is for mobile web use), Apples share has in fact gone up, not down, and all the other mobile platforms have lost out to Apple.
But then selective quoting does make for a much better fandroid headline.
Apple is still garnering most of the revenue on the mobile platform while Google isn't getting a cent. Let Android get all the unit sales and market share it can. Apple should continue doing what it's doing by building quality products, keeping platform control and delivery good customer service to consumers. Apple is pulling in very good revenue and will continue to easily do so for next few years. Owning the entire smartphone market is no guarantee of financial success which Apple needs to keep focused on.
Apple just got through publicly banning any application that gathers statistics via advertising. As such, there is no way that any of the numbers for Apple have any basis in reality.
There is no mechanism by which people can be gaining these stats.
Ignore this idiot
Farrell did not write the statistics he just reported them. You are chosing to attack the hack that wrote the story rather than the group that provided the information. It is unlikely that reporting facts which which are inconvenient to Apple is FUD. It is more likely that either you are a paid Apple official conducting a scientology like campaign to crush bad press, or you are simply a tosser who likes to shout at people who don't think you and your opinions are worth a cup of cold spit. I think you need to be ignored
Have a nice day.
In contrast to Quantcast, Net Applications found that the iPhone actually gained more mobile browser share than Android in May, going from 30.3% to 32.8%. In the same timeframe, Android went from 5.3% to only 6.2%.
Likewise, the iPad in only two months has already captured more marketshare than all Android devices put together as measured by Morgan Stanley.
in terms of installed base, Nielsen reports that the iPhone outnumbers Android by three to one (28% vs 9%) in the USA during q1 2010.
In Australia where every carrier has the iPhone and offer a whole range of competitive plans, the iPhone has captured 40% of the smartphone market and is only 5% behind Symbian according to IDC in March 2010 and closing fast. Of course since iPod Touches almost double Apple's marketshare (not to mention the just released iPad), iOS is already by far and away the largest mobile OS on this continent. In contrast Android has only captured a measly 2.1 percent.
In Japan, the iPhone has captured an astounding 72% of the smartphone market after analysts predicted it would fail due to not having emoji and other Japanese-specific curios.
Considering the iPhone is still outselling Android 2 to 1 worldwide even though many users are holding off for the release of iPhone 4 and the iPad is still not available everywhere worldwide, this article reeks of desperation.
Yes, I'm afraid Farrell has gone off the deep end claiming Android is routing the iPhone. It is obviously far from true.
-Mart
Reporter does a report on one set of figures. You quote another research outfit to back your case to prove he is wrong. If you were a reporter and you were told Report on the Quantcast figures and you went and reported the Net Applications ones because you preferred those you would get yourself fired. As a hack it is not your job to make the news fit your agenda. The idea is that you simply report what Quantcast said and let the readers make up their own minds. The Net Applic ation figures are old news the Quantcast ones are new.
Ask the question did quantcast say that? Answer yes? Is it Farrell's fault they said that? Er no. Qyantcast appears to be predicting the eventual doom of the iPhone os.
The point is that you WANT the figures to say something else. You cant make the story do what you want so you go and find another story to back your case. It is not Farrell's fault that the story does not praise Apple to the skies.
@RWdouche
Yeah but you follow him around. It gives you the excuse to insult someone and feel good about yourself. Farrell does what he does for money that makes you a rank amateur douche.
You ignore the fact that I quoted research from 6 different sources in refuting Farrell's interpretation of Quantcast's numbers.
Any reporter worth his salt would check his sources and compare with other sources. Otherwise he's just a hack spewing PR releases.
Likewise, Farrell is doing far more than just reporting figures - he is making outlandish claims that these figures mean Android is routing the iPhone which is laugh out loud false.
There are 100 million iOS devices out there today and approximately 10 million Android devices and worldwide Gartner indicates that 8.4 million iPhones were sold last quarter vs 5.2 million phones from all Android manufacturers combined, so the gap is only growing wider by the day.
Considering it is Symbian, RIM, MS and Palm who are all losing share each quarter (not Apple who gained 50% YoY), I think you'd re-phrase who you think is doomed by Android.
-Mart
Martin Hill: Any reporter worth his salt would investigate all the really good stories about Nixon and therefore rule this story as a bad one.
That is not how a news story is written, nor would you expect it to be. A reporter takes a story. In this case it is "analyst figures show Android is gaining". What you want is an analysis that refutes every negative Apple fact in every story otherwise Farrell is evil. You do not want Farrell to write press releases yet you demand that he only "balance" anti-Apple facts.
But you only want it when it comes to Apple stories. You don't complain about any other story. If Farrell kicks Microsoft or Google there are few comments. In fact you will find that Farrell is negative to everyone.
you're quick to defend Farrell's yellow journalism and drag down the whole profession aren't you?
It is my fault not to have realised this publication is cut from the same mold as The Register, but please don't try and justify Farrell's writing as having any sort of journalistic integrity with such baseless sensationalism.
-Mart
Say what you will about “journalism,” it seldom takes a scrap of information and describes it as a a tectonic shift that nobody else has been able to detect yet.
Having been involved with computers for over 40 years, I'm just as excited as ever with the great new features in Android -- both user features, such as voice input, and tech features such as the JIT VM.
But excuse me, I still have a life to lead and three great features in version whatever-we-are-now plus 0.1 don't make up for half-assed hardware, software, integration and customer service in what's actually offered in any one device today.
Yeah, I could have the Nexus with Froyo. T-Mo did well by me, but I'd have to look at that text-hostile screen and put up with a sucko music manager. I could do the EVO and love that 4G but suffer by having to deal again with Sprint customer service (took them 2+ years to fix a billing problem) and play janitor to my phone by turning radios on and off so I could actually make it thru 16 hours away from my base and still receive calls. Or I could take a chance with Verizon, historically the most aggressive nickel-and-dollar carrier (you couldn't get a picture phone unless you agreed to pay VZ every time you wanted to put a snapshot anywhere besides the phone) and get the Incredible with another bogus screen resolution and the inability to pull up a map while talking with somebody.
So the “rout” that I see is more like Tuesday's DoS from the other half million plus of my kind who want both a workable, high-speed, high-quality phone AND a just-use-it experience. Come the 24th, I'm getting everything except a mountain of “unwalled” marketing propaganda. That's a wave I can ride for another couple of years.