There’s a line-up of 2007-vintage broken record quips in this piece: the iPhone’s battery life is terrible, the keyboard terrible for email1 to name two. But Nocera falls into the trap of being surprised that Android has overtaken iOS marketshare:
According to Gartner, in the second quarter of 2009, Android sales constituted 1.8 percent of all smartphones sold, compared with Apple’s 13 percent. By the second quarter of 2010 — just a year later — Android was actually outselling Apple, 17.2 percent to 14.2 percent. This must have been a shock to the system at Apple — it was being outdone by an uncool competitor.
Given that Android is shipping on nearly all non-iOS smartphones out there from a plethora of manufacturers, and at every price point from free to iPhone-pricing, how is it surprising that the Android market share is increasing?
As I’ve said before: comparing Android to iPhone sales is akin to comparing Ford to Ferrari sales.
The biggest issue people seem to have with the iPhone keyboard is that they’re unwilling to place their trust in the auto-complete system to guess what they’re trying to say. ↩
Posted on Saturday January 15th, 2011
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