{"id":58033,"date":"2012-08-24T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T09:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=58033"},"modified":"2012-08-24T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T09:29:06","slug":"nearly-1-in-5-android-users-plan-iphone-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/58033-nearly-1-in-5-android-users-plan-iphone-switch.html","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1 in 5 Android users plan iPhone switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>While Android is leading the operating system race of smartphones, it\u2019s not receiving the same treatment when it comes to loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>A new survey, which covered over 2,000 US smartphone users, has revealed that 48%of Android users plan on buying another Android device, while 17% say they\u2019ll move to iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>The other 34% say that they\u2019re undecided with their next smartphone purchase.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, when iPhone users were asked about their future smartphone plans, 77% said that they plan to buy an iPhone for their next smartphone, with just 5% planning to switch to Android device and 18% still undecided.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of RIM, only 2% of BlackBerry users said that they will purchase another BlackBerry smartphone.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/techtraderdaily\/2012\/08\/23\/baird-iphone-5-poised-for-lift-off-50m-sales-possible-little-interest-in-potential-fb-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barron\u2019s<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/57901-pirated-android-apps-websites-seized.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pirated Android apps websites seized<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple is \u201centitled to having a monopoly\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/57811-apple-is-entitled-to-having-a-monopoly.html\"><strong>Apple is \u201centitled to having a monopoly\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/57547-apple-is-smoking-crack-with-giant-witness-list.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Apple is \u201csmoking crack\u201d with giant witness list<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/57533-samsung-expert-unconvinced-by-apples-claims.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Samsung expert unconvinced by Apple\u2019s claims<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey reveals where smartphone users are heading with their next purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":58035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,605,14739,1125,7979,14741],"class_list":["post-58033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-brand-loyalty","tag-iphone","tag-quicknews","tag-smartphone-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58033"}],"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\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}