{"id":50633,"date":"2012-05-22T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=50633"},"modified":"2012-05-22T10:03:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T08:03:38","slug":"blackberry-vs-android-vs-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/50633-blackberry-vs-android-vs-apple.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry vs Android vs Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom\u2019s<\/a> latest statistics reveal that <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> is showing strong growth in South Africa, easily surpassing the number of <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> iPhones. However, <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> remains by far the most popular smartphone platform in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom currently has 2.3 million BlackBerry users on its network, followed by 450,000 Android users and 250,000 iPhone users.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago Vodacom had around 1-million BlackBerry devices on its network, with 150,000 iPhones and around 100,000 Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s iPad and Android devices have around 50% market share each of the 200,000 tablet PCs on Vodacom\u2019s network. BlackBerry\u2019s performance in this market segment was poor, with Vodacom describing the PlayBook\u2019s uptake as &#8220;modest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vodacom, BlackBerry remains popular in the country, but they expect Android to grow in popularity over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The following graph gives a visual representation of mobile OS market share on the Vodacom network.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50635\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/50633-blackberry-vs-android-vs-apple.html\/attachment\/smartphone-market-share-breakdown\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50635\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50635\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50635\" title=\"Smartphone Market Share Breakdown\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Smartphone-Market-Share-Breakdown.jpg\" alt=\"Smartphone Market Share Breakdown\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Smartphone-Market-Share-Breakdown.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Smartphone-Market-Share-Breakdown-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Smartphone-Market-Share-Breakdown-185x123.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Smartphone-Market-Share-Breakdown-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smartphone Market Share Breakdown<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BlackBerry vs Android vs Apple IOS\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/41777-blackberry-vs-android-vs-apple-ios.html\"><strong>BlackBerry vs Android vs Apple IOS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why BlackBerry dominates SA smartphone market\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/5343\/why-blackberry-dominates-sa-smartphone-market\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why BlackBerry dominates SA smartphone market<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Vodacom statistics reveal an interesting trend regarding the most popular smartphone and tablet PC platforms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[397,605,97,35,1125,41],"class_list":["post-50633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-blackberry","tag-headline","tag-iphone","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50677,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50633\/revisions\/50677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}