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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[3]: Comment by Thom_Holwerda |
| By Beta on 2012-10-12 10:40:41 |
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> This worth a read http://techpinions.com/a-message... It really isn’t. Whole piece is whining about Google needing profits directly from Android. Google’s investors are happy with their Android strategy, and that is the only thing that matters. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by jared_wilkes |
| By Beta on 2012-10-12 10:44:20 |
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> Did someone say it was? His rather lacking point might be, trends are different outside the US, very different. If all you have to show are US numbers, and even those are favouring Android now, you should be worried about returning to that niche market you came from. |
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| RE: Comment by Thom_Holwerda |
| By masennus on 2012-10-12 11:52:34 |
| I understand what you mean by "windows flashback", but I actually think that the biggest risk to see that repeated comes from microsoft, not android. They still have a crushing monopoly over the desktop and the strategy with wp8 is clearly to try to use that monopoly to gain in mobile. Do not think for a minute that microsoft would be satisfied with being a "third ecosystem". I believe that they would rather go under than settle with being third, and before that happens they will have tried every dirty trick possible. If microsoft ever get close to 30% marketshare they will without a doubt start using the old tricks again. "Ain't done until lotus won't run" all over again, meaning increasingly difficult to use an iphone or android with a windows pc. PLEASE let wp8 stay below 5% until microsoft's desktop marketshare is below 25%, then they might do an "IBM" and I could finally start to trust that company. |
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| RE[4]: Comment by jared_wilkes |
| By jared_wilkes on 2012-10-12 16:30:37 |
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Several false assumptions here: I'm concerned about "returning to niche" -- I'm not, I'm perfectly content and even prefer a minority platform that has achieved sustainability (and 200+ million users, 700,000+ apps, and the lion's share of profits certainly marks platform sustainability), and... iOS was never dominant. The notion that Apple over-emphasizes the US over international data; I cannot find a single iPhone even where they don't mention their worldwide share of mobile phones (the best, most reliable worldwide stat). The suggestion that Apple isn't kicking everyone else's ass, besides Samsung, just because you can add up the entirety of several dozens of Android manufacturers making cheap crap that isn't even being truly used as smartphones. Etc. Edited 2012-10-12 16:31 UTC |
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| RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By Tony Swash on 2012-10-12 16:31:41 |
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I wonder if this relates to a strange phenomena reported many times and from many sources which is that iOS users actually use their phones for platform functions (web, email, photography, social networking etc) far more than Android users. For example Chikita has just conducted a user agent analysis on millions of mobile ad impressions, spanning a 7-day time frame from October 3rd through October 9th, 2012. Looking solely at impressions coming from the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S III, they were able to observe the difference in Web traffic volume between the two devices, 18 days since the public release of the iPhone 5 and four months after the SIII release in the US. The newest Apple device has already overtaken the Galaxy S III in terms of Web traffic volume. http://insights.chitika.com/2012... This report is matched by many others all pointing to the same conclusion, people are doing much less stuff with their Android phones than with their iPhones. I don't why this is happening but the scale of the mismatch between market share and usage is so large and so well confirmed through research that it cries out for explanation. My favoured explanation will probably not sit well with some people. I think most people don't buy their Android phones because they are looking for the best smart phone platform. They buy them because that is what is being punted by the carriers or retailers, and because the want a modern looking phone with a touch screen but they don't really want to use them for much more than phoning and texting. But I could be wrong because there is little data about what drives actual usage patterns on the two platforms. I would love to hear any other ideas people have as to why Android users just don't seem to use so many platform functions as much. It's certainly a bit puzzling. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-10-12 17:01:08 |
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In The Netherlands, where the iPhone holds 20% and Android 70%, this is not the case. http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobil... They're not clear about whether or not the iPad is a mobile device - but I'm guessing it is, which would explain the - still - relatively high iOS share. |
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| RE: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By Fergy on 2012-10-12 20:20:47 |
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> I live in The Netherlands too and I see mostly iPhones (adults) and BlackBerries (kids). But no doubt about Windows Phone, they are a very rare occasion. I live in the Netherlands too and I agree. But Blackberry and WinP owners are either not happy with the phone or not that interested. Android owners are satisfied and iPhone owners defend their choice to the death. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By lordmorgul on 2012-10-12 23:02:12 |
| There's one problem with this: not all Android browsers show the device name in the UA-string (Opera & Firefox don't, for example), so the data for SGS3 might be understated. |
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| Sure? |
| By capi_x on 2012-10-13 03:13:07 |
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Smart LiteOS == BADA Android != BADA Android share == 47% |
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| RE[5]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By zima on 2012-10-14 15:06:25 |
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I'd guess it might as well be about greater adaptability of kids ...to touch-typing, on physical keyboards (not only qwerty, also the usual alphanumeric - I've seen young people thumb-typing "blind" on those, one-handed). Conversely, for older people it might not matter that much - because they hunt-and-peck anyway. But yeah, network effects... here it's the obnoxious GG ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad... - and PL version of that article has a ridiculous claim about GG first to be used in space, on the ISS - seemingly unremovable because it has a citation to right-leaning newspaper, which basically just reprinted PR claims of the developer ...but those claims have issues: 1) at the time, ISS didn't have a direct IP access, only a form of email and ftp 2) ~IM aspect of pocket radio was certainly used not only on ISS, but on Mir; plus, http://www.kyon.pl/img/15962,gad... & http://www.kyon.pl/img/17590,com... - it "beats" Live Messenger by now). GG first got some popularity by offering ~free SMS to PL networks, then - by introducing IM capability - it managed to grab the nascent market from ICQ (some ill-conceived local "patriotism" probably also played a role) ...and so we're stuck with it, one uses it because everybody else do. Whole country turned into an IM ghetto, even Skype didn't manage to break it - now people simply run both. GG also on mobile - oh, and BBM doesn't exist (a place only a bit over 1000 km away) Now, those effects also mean that Blackberry could have been reasonable, by introducing paid BBM for other, new platforms - they would probably be the mobile messenger by now. But it's probably too late. PS. OTOH, kids love prepaid ...and I don't think BB fits that very much? Edited 2012-10-14 15:12 UTC |
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