It is interesting how the US are continuing to adopt Apple/iPhone in contrast to the rest of the world. I think its one of those things where once the majority take hold it becomes set in culture which further embeds the trend.
Saying that, when looking for documented statistics, they don’t match up with the article.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-states-of-america
The source is Counterpoint Research as linked in the article - the 55% figure in the headline is misleading, the statistic is really “55% of new devices shipped”, not total market share.
Yeah iPhone people seem to upgrade about twice as often as the rest of us
It is a US company, that likely helps a little. They are expensive. In many countries 55% could not afford them. Easy access to Apple stores to fix issues is a massive advantage.
Anecdotally, my friends and family that have switched have done so because of malware. Apple is far from perfect, but Google has done a terrible job of keeping bad apps out of the Play store. And malicious software has other ways of getting installed. My sister was a diehard Samsung user, but reluctantly bought an iPhone when she started getting porn pop ups and her and none of her friends could figure out how to stop them.
Sounds like a your sister thing, never got smth like that and you also wont get it without installing smth
She probably isn’t a perfect tech user, and installed an app that she shouldn’t.
But iphone users don’t usually have this problem anyway so sister still ends up benefiting from that ecosystem.
Google needs to stay more on top of the app store. It’s clear they never had the man power to actually police it well.
There are benefits to that as well, apps that enabled features that carriers didn’t want to be enabled used to be pretty popular. Not to mention the benefit of being able to side load apps if you are a power user.
I was on android for the longest time but I got tired of Samsung’s crap, the horrible way version upgrades are handled (or not handled), etc.
Yeah, I don’t understand why Samsungs are the most popular Android phones.
Like, I get that they have good hardware, but their software is annoying as hell.
I disliked Samsung devices’ software even more than I disliked iOS. Neither of them hold a candle to the Pixel experience.
You think the popularity in the US is because you had a bad experience with upgrades?
No i was merely stating a few personal reasons. I’m sure there are hundreds if not thousands of factors to explain why iPhones are more popular
I feel like a factor is that in other countries people use 3rd party apps for messaging, therefore the difference between android and iMessage is less important in those countries. As a US citizen I feel like I’d miss iMessage if I bought an android phone.
