Android vs iPhone vs Windows in SA

Tharaxis said:
These Android/iPhone comparisons are never particularly good, fair or honest. You're talking all Android devices amongst many many different manufacturers vs. the devices of a single provider (100's of different products vs maybe 6?). Obviously the Android numbers are going to be significantly greater than that of Apple. I would rather say "how many Samsung S6's vs iPhone 6S's vs iPads vs a flagship Android tablet" for it to be a more fair comparison.
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Just because the iPhone is expensive, doesn't make it a high end phone... :p
 
Surprised blackberry is still around! Well, blackberry is now busy with Android smartphones and looks awesome!
 
Dolby said:
Well it's in their history.

I mean when the rest of the world starting embedding expensive 3G, Apple was - well - using old EDGE technology for a while still.

When we all went to 801.11n wifi, they used cheaper b/g .... and when we went to 'ac', it took them a year to use the same chip when they were cheap and plentiful.

NFC was around 5 years behind even Blackberry ; there were already 30 million out there before they jumped on board with NFC chips

It's not a bad thing - they just use old, cheaper technology and always have.
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Well except for the EDGE/3G thing, I can't think of anything that was significant to wait for. I don't know anyone that uses NFC all that much. On my Galaxy S device the only time I used it was to test the tapping together with another Galaxy S device. The wifi update also didn't make a big difference.

My biggest gripe is just that when the market matured for some of these innovations, some of my Galaxy devices wasn't supported any more. I bought most of these things to be future proof, but you just get left behind with non Nexus devices.

I do still load custom roms to keep my device relevant and if you can do this you ensure some future proofing. But I am getting tired of doing so. And most normal people don't know how to do this.

With iOS devices, you know what you are getting and that it's hardware won't future proof you, but the hardware that you get is normally (probably not always) supported till it starts to affect other things like performance etc.

Different strategies, I would have loved to get Nexus devices on contract as it seem to be fairing well in both categories.
 
phoneJunky said:
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Point is they don't offer them and don't need to pay for the latest technology like other manufacturers. They're sell in the millions with average hardware and older technology. It even filters to the latest Apple TV - FullHD, no SPFIF and outdated HDMI ports, so fairly cheap internals.

Great strategy for Apple ha works
 
Apple and Microsoft seem not too far, but these are contract numbers. I suspect the number of Apple phones bought cash out of contract is significant but almost 0 for Microsoft.
 
Surprised Symbian holds 6% market share - I thought Symbian was close to being dead.
 
Tharaxis said:
These Android/iPhone comparisons are never particularly good, fair or honest. You're talking all Android devices amongst many many different manufacturers vs. the devices of a single provider (100's of different products vs maybe 6?). Obviously the Android numbers are going to be significantly greater than that of Apple. I would rather say "how many Samsung S6's vs iPhone 6S's vs iPads vs a flagship Android tablet" for it to be a more fair comparison.
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I agree.

Samsung where going to replace Android with their own OS. Not sure how that is going, but it in the long term it could indicate lower Android numbers.
 
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