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By: Number of Android Phones

Number of Android Phones — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:07:29 +0000

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By: Jackjack

Jackjack — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:45:01 +0000

All this animosity toward apple and the iPhone seems quite illogical. Why are you losers angry at a computer company? Leads me to believe you are all closet apple fans grossly overcompensating. You’re shameless devotion to android is as appalling and immature as the devotion of apple fans. Instead of new gadgets, GET YOURSELF A LIFE.

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:32:53 +0000

Where is symbian?

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:05:53 +0000

So far Android phones are still expensive and sold by very few companies, HTC, Samsung, Motorola has one. That’s about it.

Just wait till all the other manufacturers join the Android camp with actual products on the market.

The $199 unlocked full feature Android phones are imminent. $529 unlocked Nexus One is ridiculously expensive. Once you can buy full feature Android phones for less than $200 with no contracts, even with free VOIP services built-in, $20 per month pre-paid data services all inclusive, manufactured by all including Dell, Philips, Hisense, Huawei, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, they are all working 100% on Android at the moment.

Who will pay $3000 for an iPhone (with 2-year contracts), when you will be able to get an Android phone for $100 without contracts, just use VOIP on WiFi or pre-pay $20 per month for unlimited VOIP on 3G. How will Apple be able to sell any iPhones any more?

By: Kontra

Kontra — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:33:05 +0000

As long phandroids fail to grok (relative) rate of growth vs. marketshare in the context of a platform race, Apple and RIM have nothing to worry about.

By: Debianero Rumbero

Debianero Rumbero — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:13:03 +0000

Not to mention all those people who buy a mobile or whatever with windows, delete it and install some flavor of Linux.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:04:27 +0000

>Android might be growing but at the same screwing its customers that are still stuck with Android 1.5 and 1.6. Thats why i left Android and went with MAEMO 5 (Nokia N900).

I have a HTC hero and am considering doing the same if the promised March update isn’t delivered asap

By: sa

sa — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:21:42 +0000

growing faster is not the same thing as selling more!
if i sold one phone till the start of a quarter, and sold one more during the quarter that’s 100% increase!

By: LS

LS — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:54:55 +0000

1 phone vs. 100. Apple isn’t playing that game:) Android is Free!

By: Sachin

Sachin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:51:51 +0000

Palm seems to be purely dead… microsoft’s figures may jump up after windows 7 phone….I thinks Apple will also surpass BB this summer with the launch of iPhone 4.

By: RealMonster

RealMonster — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:42:07 +0000

Lies, damn lies and statistics, amirite?

You need the actual numbers before this is meaningful. To simplify things even further from the comments that Chris Howard and Kevin Nem wrote, if I started a phone company and I was the only user of my phone, but even ONE other person bought a phone, my growth would have been 100%! ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. OMG.

Meanwhile, a single person buying a phone from a company that’s already sold a million phones has a pathetic 0.00001% growth, even though we’ve increased our user base by EXACTLY THE SAME NUMBER.

Android is picking up, but the user base is still woefully small in comparison to the big players.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:49:43 +0000

Momenta.

By: Chris Howard

Chris Howard — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:33:13 +0000

heheh – this is the same misinterpretation of statistics that Apple fans like to do too. Percent of percentage change is a furphy.

What Kevin Nem said is spot on.

If Apple had’ve increased its marketshare by 4.3%, it would only show up as a 17% percentage change.

So for Apple to match Google’s percentage growth, they would have had to capture 63% of the market!

That is, in terms of percentage change, Apple would have had to have a 38% change, just to match Google’s 4.3%. That’s 9 times as many phones.

And RIM, as Kevin points out, to match the same percent of percentage change, would have had to capture 134% of the market…

Nope, percent of percentage change is a furphy.

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By: Kevin Nem

Kevin Nem — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:10:12 +0000

The math si a bit missleading…

a company that goes from 50% market share to 54%, has 8% growth, but has captured 4% of the market.

A company that goes from 1% to 2% has 100% growth, but only captured 1%.

- for example, would it even be possible rim(at 43%) to get 153% growth – and end up with 133.85% of the market ?? wait a sec how do you get over 100% market share.

don’t read in to this stat more then you should