Google's Android operating system rose above Apple's iOS with 53 percent of activations in the United States during Q1 of this year.
In the final quarter of 2013, Apple's iOS accounted for the largest share of activations in the U.S. at 48 percent, ahead of Android at 46 percent. Now iOS has fallen to second place with 42 percent of activations, behind Android's 53 percent total.
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With so many companies making cheap ass android phones... Is this really a surprise??? If 10 companies made iPhones they would be cheaper, cheaper made, and would get 20x the activations that iOS gets now.
Originally posted by mightyzog: With so many companies making cheap ass android phones... Is this really a surprise??? If 10 companies made iPhones they would be cheaper, cheaper made, and would get 20x the activations that iOS gets now.
I don't know about 20x, but yes, it's kinda ridiculous to compare 20-30 products to 2-3 products. Model-to-model (minus memory configs) sales/activations comparisons are more relevant to judge a product's popularity.
I agree with 1st statement........Is this really a surprise??? An article a couple months back stated that Android practically dwarfed the Apple marketshare.
