Google| Subject | Re: Android hammers iOS, no wonder Apple is worried |
| From | KDT |
| Date | 08/13/2012 12:43 (08/13/2012 03:43) |
| Message-ID | <915f26d5-b805-4e94-9c87-0fb99a45517d@a1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | Tommy Troll |
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On Aug 8, 9:25=A0am, Tommy Troll <tom_e...@earthlink.net>wrote:
Tommy Troll, according to new data from research firm IDC.
People like choice and competition!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57488926-94/android-smartphone-share...
Google's Android operating system dominated the mobile space last quarter=
According to IDC, 104.8 million Android-based smartphones shipped worldwi=de during the second quarter, representing a 106.5 percent gain over the 50= .8 million handsets that launched in the same period last year. Android was= able to nab 68.1 percent of the smartphone market last quarter.
Android's top competitor, Apple's iOS, was dominated by Google's operatin=g system last quarter, nabbing only 16.9 percent market share on 26 million= smartphone shipments. That figure was up 27.5 percent compared to the 20.4= million iPhones that hit store shelves during the second quarter last year= .
First mistake...."according to IDC". With the Apple Samsung trial, IDC was shown to be way off. Samsung didn't publish numbers of unit sales but they were forced to in trial. IDC's numbers were shown to be way off base.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/10/apple-sold-5-7-million-tablets-in-th= e-u-s-last-quarter-court-documents-show-samsung-sold-37000/
Answer a question, why do public companies exist?
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