[HN Gopher] Apple hits "all-time high" smartphone market share, ...
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Apple hits "all-time high" smartphone market share, takes #1 spot
for 2023
Author : MBCook
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-01-16 18:39 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| Tarsul wrote:
| so maybe there actually _is_ a market for sub 6 " smartphones? I
| found it to be insane that there did not even exist an android
| one (except for outdoor ones) when I looked, when 6 years ago
| there still were options for sub 5" ones. That's quite insane and
| I can only imagine it has something to do with the cost of
| manufacturing (or margins, see SUVs as well?). Anyone want to
| chip in on this?
| ratg13 wrote:
| I think it's lots of reasons.
|
| I recently switched to iPhone because I couldn't find an
| android I liked.
|
| Galaxy has uninstallable Facebook apps (dealbreaker), Pixel
| camera was underwhelming.. and couldn't find anything else I
| liked.
| TwentyPosts wrote:
| >Pixel camera was underwhelming
|
| Are we looking at the same phone? Everyone I know loved the
| camera and I could've sworn it came out on top in that one
| phone camera elo ranking
| jasonjamerson wrote:
| They certainly hyped them, but I hate mine. The post
| processing is way over the top, for one thing. And the raw
| images are just terrible.
| yesco wrote:
| Yeah the market for Android phones seems to have devolved
| into nothing but cheap iPhone copies these days, with little
| if any, actual innovation in years (with maybe a few
| exceptions from Samsung). Pretty much the only specs they
| even try to compete on is camera quality.
|
| I still stick with Pixel/Android since I prefer to have full
| ownership of my device from a development/hacker standpoint,
| but even that quality has been diminishing with each new
| version of Android. It's like every new release just makes
| the OS worse instead of better, so it's not something I look
| forward too anymore.
|
| It really raises the question why am I even buying Android
| stuff in the first place? From a consumer perspective they
| are basically just inferior iPhones at this point and while I
| can technically do some advanced stuff with android, most of
| these abilities are locked behind adb now or simply outright
| disabled. I can't even freely change ROMs now since I'd lose
| the ability to remotely deposit checks.
|
| From my perspective, it seems Android has nothing but a dark
| future ahead of it.
| willsmith72 wrote:
| I see it the opposite way round
|
| Apple would have to make the iPhone really awesome to
| convince me to pay more money for it. These days I don't
| see what that is.
|
| For me, Samsung and pixel cameras, battery life,
| performance-feel, are plenty good enough. What's there to
| spend more on?
|
| I don't even use Apple's messaging, photos, calendar, music
| etc. because I like having freedom to change between
| platforms and use them easily with anyone, regardless of
| their own platform.
| wmf wrote:
| Keep in mind that a 6" phone today is very similar in size to a
| 4.7" phone from the past because the bezels have been removed.
| arp242 wrote:
| The screen is too large to comfortably use. Bezel size is
| unimportant.
| a_vanderbilt wrote:
| I held out on my SE1 and SE2 until the 12 came out specifically
| to avoid a larger phone. While it seems there is a market for
| the size, it isn't big enough to care about (by Apple's own
| statistics).
| jdxcode wrote:
| Personally, I know a lot of people that were waiting specifically
| for USB-C. Not sure if that's the reason here but I wouldn't be
| surprised.
| spicybbq wrote:
| I find it interesting that the top sellers are the most expensive
| models for Apple. Seems like this was not always the case.
|
| Another point is looking at their source for the top sellers [1],
| the top four are: 14 pro max, 14 pro, 14, and 13. Next are 5
| Samsung models, then the iphone 11 in tenth place. Notably, the
| iphone 14 Plus is not even in the top 10.
|
| 1: https://omdia.tech.informa.com/pr/2023/aug/omdia-
| iphone-14-p...
| truculent wrote:
| I suspect that the enthusiast buyers ate both buying more
| frequently and more expensive models. Meanwhile, the median
| customer is buying a base level model and holding until it
| becomes obsolete.
| silveira wrote:
| USB-C.
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