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| Android grabs 70% of Dutch smartphone market share |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-10-11 14:43:45 |
| Since I love making it seem as if The Netherlands is in any way relevant anywhere ever, here's the most recent market share figures for smartphones, released today, covering the month of August (there's a graph showing the figures for every month from August 2011 until August 2012). The iPhone has a market share of almost 20% - but Android is ravaging the market, and now holds a market share of 70% (!). Nearly 75% of all Android smartphones sold in The Netherlands are made by Samsung. If you take the entire phone market - including feature phones - the iPhone holds 13% (up from 8% in August 2011) and Android 47% (up from 30% in August 2011). Windows Phone barely manages to hold on at 1%, and the BlackBerry dropped from 13% to 5%. Interestingly enough, in this combined feature/smartphone market, nearly 50% are Samsung phones. This of course doesn't yet include the iPhone 5, so the next set of figures will most likely show a spike for Apple. Still, if The Netherlands is in any way indicative of the rest of Europe, it's no surprise Apple tends to focus on US figures during its presentations. |
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| RE: Comment by Thom_Holwerda |
| By bnolsen on 2012-10-11 15:39:52 |
| I don't see google trying to strange the market and illegally leverage out Apple and MS with under the table deals, however. Monopolies aren't intrinsically bad things unless they are abused (which is a very easy and tempting thing to do). |
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| RE[4]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-10-11 15:40:55 |
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Yes, first they were forced to start using a BlackBerry as they are semi-important persons and not always behind their desk and then they had to pick another phone when we decided to get rid of the BlackBerries. I make it a kind of hobby to spot 'n' identify technology people use. That I see more iPhones has nothing to do with me being Apple minded. I also see Android phone, but less. Apple sells many laptops, but these I spot much less. Acer and HP are the ones I spot most. A couple of times I helped people with their Android phones. Today I sat for some time in a car trying to pair it to a Sony Xperia S. It didn't work, but don't get upset nor did my iPhone or Lumia. Turns out it's a crap Volkswagen from 2008. It does work with Nokia S40 phones. |
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| Apple is small miracle. |
| By przemo_li on 2012-10-11 15:47:18 |
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They started handset business in USA* (as Carrier exclusive** not the less!!!), and succeed. Jokes aside. Apple is still strongest in the USA. * USA is almost backwater when comes to handsets. ** They are only good when you make special flavor of you phone as CE, not your entire business. |
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| RE[2]: Comment by Thom_Holwerda |
| By przemo_li on 2012-10-11 15:49:17 |
| Also add limiting APIs to just your products, and biggest sin forcing entrance into another market by leveraging your dominant position in other. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By przemo_li on 2012-10-11 15:51:05 |
| LMAO |
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| RE: Thank you Android... |
| By przemo_li on 2012-10-11 15:53:00 |
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Do not forgot about Jolly :P they are choice too or will be in near feature ... for Chinese people only :( |
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| RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By spiderman on 2012-10-11 15:53:53 |
| Aside the already mentioned fact that the userbase and the units currently sold are different things, don't forget that statistics don't reflect reality either. First off, even when the statistics are honest, it's hard to get a meaningful sample and get the right data. Second, the statistics is not provided for free by a benevolent NGO, it's produced and published for money by a corporation with an agenda. |
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| RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By kwan_e on 2012-10-11 16:05:58 |
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> I'd think iPhones were more popular too, judging by what I see. i'm guessing people just whip 'm out more often. There's definitely a beneficial side-effect in having a touchscreen based gadget. You have to take it out every time you need to do something, and voila, instant advertising. I personally prefer Cowon players, for example, because I can control it without taking it out. And thus, nobody knows I use a Cowon, and assume it's an iPod. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By Radio on 2012-10-11 16:23:19 |
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> I'm mostly surprised kids love BlackBerries. Well, I know it's for the BBM, but apart from that there isn't much fun stuff you can do with a BlackBerry. It's the keyboard. I have a friend with a crappy, low-sales Samsung (so no CyanogenMod or other 3rd party support) with a keyboard, and she clings to it with fiery passion (as an actress etc.). |
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| RE[4]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-10-11 16:27:43 |
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I'd suspect older people would prefer physical keyboards and kids with small and nimble fingers and a more adaptive brain would manage a virtual keyboard easier. But I also guess when some have a BlackBerry the rest wants one too not to be left out of the BBM chats. Let's see what the next generation of BlackBerries brings us. |
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