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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[4]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By thavith_osn on 2012-10-11 21:55:55 |
| I can't believe the Samsung guys are so embarrassed by their phones :-) |
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| RE[3]: Comment by Thom_Holwerda |
| By M.Onty on 2012-10-11 22:54:50 |
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> ...Google has probably not broken even on Android yet if you factor in the wholly Android related purchase of the loss making Motorola ... That's the story; Google bought it entirely for self-defence against Apple, Microsoft et al. But Motorola's losses also massively reduce Google's tax bill, which must be nice for them. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By unclefester on 2012-10-11 23:41:58 |
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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. A Blackberry is probably the best device out there for texting and emails. That's mainly what kids do. |
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| RE: Comment by ilovebeer |
| By mutantsushi on 2012-10-12 00:32:31 |
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or the US representing the global world market. really, if you have info on other EU states, please share, i'm sure others would be interested. for that matter, if there is US state-specific sales info that diverged signifigantly, that would also be interesting. |
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| RE[2]: Comment by ilovebeer |
| By ilovebeer on 2012-10-12 03:48:56 |
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> or the US representing the global world market. Yes. > really, if you have info on other EU states, please share, i'm sure others would be interested. for that matter, if there is US state-specific sales info that diverged signifigantly, that would also be interesting. It wouldn't be that interesting at all considering everything from population, to local economy, to subsidies, to bla bla bla can vary greatly state-to-state.. They can vary greatly from county-to-county and city-to-city. Trends in one area can easily look completely different than trends in another. I guess you think the same isn't true for Europe. |
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| Not zero sum game |
| By imhotepx on 2012-10-12 06:08:30 |
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There can be and are several successful vendors out there in the mobile market. This does not have to be a zero sum game as whats his name once said. I am willing to bet without knowing, that that 13% stake Apple has represents more revenue than the other other Android vendors combined in your home country. |
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| RE: Comment by ilovebeer |
| By phreck on 2012-10-12 09:08:43 |
| Or like the heading representing the whole text. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by ilovebeer |
| By mutantsushi on 2012-10-12 09:17:32 |
| no that's exactly the point why i was interested in that, because such variances are very probably to exist. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By Brunis on 2012-10-12 09:49:30 |
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> > i'm guessing people just whip 'm out more often. next time you visit a starbucks just take a look around everyone keeps his phone in his pocket while drinking a coffee but the apple-guys place it on the table I agree, most Apple users are attention whores. They buy the product they think looks cool, so they can flaunt it and pretend they are aswell :) |
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| RE[3]: Comment by Thom_Holwerda |
| By dsmogor on 2012-10-12 10:20:36 |
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Samsung is winning because of its hardware capabilities and carrier relations (Samsung flagships are available under really crazy cheap deals in the Netherlands, its no brainer to buy them). This has nothing to do with Android. If they chose another competitive OS ( say WP8 was released 2 years ago or WEB os was free then) they would rule as well. Looks like carriers don't care about dominant players as long as they don't interfere with their revenue streams. They basically put Samsung on the Nokia place. Edited 2012-10-12 10:27 UTC |
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