Nielsen Report: iPhone has the times Android's market share

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/iphone-vs-android/

by tomerico • 16 years ago

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mattyb• 16 years ago

Not sure what's going on with this title, but the report states that the iPhone's market share is 28%, while Android's market share is 9% (a factor of 3.1).

jat850• 16 years ago

I think it was supposed to read "three" times. (iPhone ~28%, Android ~9%)

jacquesm• 16 years ago

It's actually surprising that android is already that high.

Legion• 16 years ago

I think the most interesting part was:

>> "80% of iPhone users want their next device to run iPhone OS while 70% of Android users want another Android device. This is in stark comparison to other major smartphone players: only 47% of Blackberry users want another Blackberry while only 34% of Windows Mobile users want another Windows Mobile device."

stanleydrew2• 16 years ago

And this follow up: "Given that iPhone penetration is three times that of Android, more iPhone consumers are willing to try Android."

houseabsolute• 16 years ago

Although that's true, I'm not sure there's much information there. There are always many more people willing to switch away from the most popular platform. Imagine if 10% of Windows users would consider their next machine to possibly be a Mac. Even if 100% of Mac users were planning on buying Windows next, the 10% would outnumber them. While interesting, I'm not sure that statistic is very useful.

mrb• 16 years ago

The report states that Android users are younger than iPhone users. I think perhaps it is a sign that younger users are the first to adopt a growing platform, then it spread to other age ranges...

seldo• 16 years ago

One of the graphs shows 30% of iPhone users "played pre-installed games" on the iPhone, which as far as I'm aware doesn't feature any pre-installed games. Am I misunderstanding the question?

geoffpado• 16 years ago

Confusing wording, but I think they mean games you download and install, as opposed to online games. Not sure, though.

rio517• 16 years ago

Very interesting, but I'm surprised that Android's market share is so weak considering that I've seen reports that Android based web traffic surpassed iPhone traffic last month, while your survey shows Android/iPhone to be at about the same level in terms of usage in the past 30 days.

I wonder if android owners aren't aware that they are running Android.

Nielsen Report: iPhone has the times Android's market share

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