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Google's Android is more desirable than Apple's IOS
APPLE FANBOISM is losing out according to figures released by Nielsen that show Android devices are more desirable than ones running Apple's IOS.
Nielsen revealed that 31 per cent of US mobile consumers surveyed want a smartphone that runs Google's Android operating system, putting it one per cent ahead of Apple's Iphone running IOS. It's a significant reversal of roles with Nielsen's figures for July to September 2010 showing that Android has overcome the healthy seven per cent lead of Apple's IOS at that time. It also signals that Android is picking up growing mainstream acceptance.
Going through Nielsen's figures, the growing popularity of Android is in stark contrast with not just Apple's IOS but Research in Motion's Blackberry, which suffered a two per cent decline among consumers wanting to purchase devices. Drops were also recorded for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and HP's WebOS, with both suffering one per cent declines, though given that few would expect much of a showing from either, the drop is not a big surprise.
If it wasn't obvious already, Nielsen's figures highlight that Nokia's woes in the US stem from its tie-in with the Symbian operating system. In its survey, less than one per cent of respondents said they would consider purchasing a smartphone running Symbian. When coupled with the falling popularity of WP7, a modified version of which will appear on Nokia devices in the future, it's starting to look like Nokia decided to jump from one sinking ship to another.
Nielsen also asked those that had purchased smartphones in the past six months what operating system it was running and an eye-opening 50 per cent responded by saying Android. That's double that of Apple's IOS, with RIM's Blackberry OS accounting for 15 per cent and WP7 just seven per cent, with WebOS and Symbian accounting for just three per cent.
After all that, Nielsen finally shows that as of March 2011, Android is stretching its legs when it comes to overall US smartphone marketshare. Nielsen's latest figures show Android having 37 per cent of the US smartphone market, 10 per cent more than Apple and 15 per cent more than Blackberry.
Apple fanbois will be wondering just how the open source Android operating system has managed to become more desirable than their locked down shiny toy. Perhaps functionality has finally triumphed over form in the smartphone market. µ
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The title tells everything. Unless Steve Jobs all of a sudden decided to revamp his policies on the too-closed iOS, I wouldn't be suprised if Google gain enough to surpass them. But hey, a company will only open up if its convenient to them, and I hope they're not blinded by their past victories as this may be the time where the tide changes.
why does criticism of apple reduce grown educated people to bubbling playground school children?
Not that I care, I love seeing these nutcases go mad about a £500 toy..
One has to remember that the iPhone is the most popular phone from any single vendor, something the article conveniently forgets. Yes, Android market penetration might be marginally higher than iOS now but that's because there are many vendors each using Android. I'm sure if Apple licenses iOS and let the 3rd party hardware vendors customise it and implement their own versions then it'd be vastly more popular than Android. The fact is that Android is still sub-par compared with iOS. Lastly I wish this publication would stop complaining about Apple - just be grown up enough to admit that Apple make some amazing devices and stop referring to Apple customers as 'fanbois' (a non-existent word according to the Oxford English Dictionary). What derogatory term will be using for Android consumers in the future? f**k off!
I have walls around my garden to stop yobs from wrecking it.
I have no walls around my phone to stop Jobs from wrecking it.
I have seen Android and have an Ipod myself.
Sorry but I hate the Ipod as it simply lacks flash!!
Many websites use flash and Ipod can't play them, so stupid.
Also Android looks a lot better.
IOs is too closed and expensive to use, and with flash it's useless to me.
I just play a few games with it as it's useless to do anything else.
Too expensive for what the Ipod is. That is also the reason that keeps me from buying other Apple products.
I use Linux, cheap and damn good!
...and your iDiot fAnboi cUlt bRethren. So just because Google showed a search(?) result back to the glorious INQ, which you already stated is a "crappy website", why then did you feel compelled to click on another INQ link??!! Of course, I already know the answer. You, like the rest of the Iphone/Ipad/Ipod/Itunes/iDrooling worshippers have no mental self control. You leave all life decisions to someone else and that's why your messiah, Steve the son of Satan < Jobs, is able to repeatedly take advantage of your weak-mindedness and continually helps himself to your wallet.
Here's something you need to seriously consider. Just imagine if Jobs, the uber-controlling-super-egomaniacal-ultra-secretive-pro-censorship-insanely-greedy-never-admit-inherent-product-defects was the leader of a country. What type of government would that be? Think it would be a democracy? Better guess again. Instead, think dictatorship, tyrannical absolute monarchy, despot controlled regime, or communist state. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if his uNholiness has a photo of Lenin, Stalin, Kim Jong-il, Netanyahu, or similar oppressor, as the object of his supreme admiration.
Now run along boy, to one of the many 'state' sponsored Stepford Wives type pro-aPple websites.
Oh, yeah...and enjoy the Kool-Aid...the first round's on me!
Microsoft spent most of a billion dollars in marketing Windows Phone 7.
But look at the latest survey. Windows Phone 7 is now less desired than it was at the time it launched. Microsoft is slipping backwards into an abyss.
Expect Windows Phone 7 to be axed in the coming months. It won't even exist by the time Nokia wants to use it.
@usuck
Yes, you are a little prick and yes, usuck.
LOL, do you still not get it? The Inquirer is an anti-aPple tech news site.
You can't really congratulate them in a sarcastic way for pissing off a chunk of their readers when that is what they are intentionally doing because like most IT professional see that aPple is one of the most morally reprehensable companies operating today. I'm not saying Microsoft is a saint but at least they are essentially open about themselves and their products which while not opensource, are open enough for people to develop for, same for linux, unix, and google's OS's unlike any IOS which are walled off against the rest of the world.
Nuff said
Calm down boys, it's only a phone we're talking about, not a religion.
:)
^^LMAO at this crApple fanboi!
I told it to stop showing me stuff from this crappy website, but it continues to do so.
Good job at pissing off a big chunk of readers (fanbios, if you will) with silly comments that bing no value to the actual content of the article.
I will not click your ads, and I will ask Google news to stop showing your crap again. Might not be the case if you could actually write a non-flaming article. Not sure what to expect though, given your website has a "flame author" button. I bet you get paid based on number of flames that you get... so I will not be flaming you that way.
Linkbait prick.