Nielsen: Android adoption doubled iOS over last three months
BGR reports this morning that Android phones are growing rapidly in market share in the US. That's the word from the Nielsen Company, which just released research conducted in August.
Customer surveys showed that over the last 3 months, ending in August, twice as many people purchased an Android-based phone as bought an iPhone. The percentages are 58% for Android, 28% for Apple. The Apple share has been holding steady in the last few Nielsen surveys.
The Nielsen numbers also show that smartphone sales are growing, as more people upgrade from standard cell phones or feature phones. According to Nielsen's research, 43% of the total population of cellphones are smartphones.
For the 4th quarter, Nielsen sees a resurgence in the iPhone due to new hardware that should be announced any day. "Every time Apple launches a new iPhone or makes it available on a new wireless carrier, there is an increase in their sales," Don Kellogg, Director of Telecom Research & Insights at Nielsen, wrote today on the Nielsen blog.
The numbers also indicate a perilous slide for BlackBerry and 'other' phones which continue to lose marketshare. Not great news for Microsoft Windows Phone 7, but Redmond hopes that the alliance with Nokia will stop the bleeding.
Note: As of this writing, the link to the report on the Nielsen site is broken.
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BGR reports this morning that Android phones are growing rapidly in market share in the US. That's the word from the Nielsen...
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Who cares. I love my iPhone. If other people wanna get a cheaper Android phone, be my guest. As an Apple stock holder, all's I care about is Apple keeps on printing cash and the stock keeps on going up.
September 27 2011 at 4:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnd there are more TV out there with Yahoo widgets than Google TV.
But what's the point if less than half of those people actually utilizes it.
I had all iphones except for the 3G since the first week the first iphone ever was released, and I loved it. But now I am in the process of switching from my iphone 4 to a Samsung Galaxy S2 too. I am just sick of Apple constantly telling and restricting what video formats I can play on my device, how I can transfer data from and to my device, and what applications I can load onto my device. I am sick of having to jailbreak after every upgrade just to access useful features such as swype-like input. And, I am annoyed by the fact that instead of keeping focus on their technical excellence, Apple is now resorting to preventing competition via patent trolling. They invented rounded rectangle icons now, really?
September 26 2011 at 6:46 PM Report abuse Permalink -5 rate up rate down Replyyou might want to look up the definition of patent troll. i'm getting tired of reading comments who accuse Apple of not inventing their patents - especially when every week speculation spreads when we see a new patent filed.
personally i see no appeal to the android platform - when folks leave comments on this site on why they are switching to android, you normally read remarks on apple's control of the app store. meanwhile i can't find one application on the android marketplace that makes me want to switch.
You'd rather maybe, not be able to play a video format because samsung decides not to upgrade your phone. Maybe you'd like netflix but oh that's right. it only works on certain phones.
Apple's video works on it's phones, pretty much all of them. What video formats do you need on your phone besides quicktime and youtube anyway. I'm a pretty heavy video nerd but I can't see needing anything any more except for the titles I pay for from itunes. I buy the shows I want to keep and I can play them on ANY of my apple devices and non apple devices for that matter.
let me change part of my statement, since edit isn't available "wtf?".
Video works on "ALL" of apples phones. And with iOS5, it's going to work even better. If the app developers don't screw it up you will be able to throw all video that can go into the iPhone and iPad's to your TV via any "Airplay" capable device that you can plug into your stereo or TV.
For me that has been the holy grail and Apple has by far made it far easier than any other company. Trust me when I say, that even Microsoft took 5 years to get video from it's hand held devices to work with it's own set top box (XBOX 360) and even then there are issues.
The iPhone is so long in the tooth. I'm almost feeling all the Android fanboys are right nowadays. I wanna throw my iPhone out the window because it can't do half of the cool things Androids can do. Apple should stop playing hard to get, release the iPhone 5 and get iOS 5 out if they have any chance of staying alive.
September 26 2011 at 5:59 PM Report abuse Permalink -3 rate up rate down ReplyYeah your right. That 1 year old format that sold 25 million phones in a single quarter. yeah it's really long in the tooth.
What the hell are you talking about? Who says apple is playing hard to get. It's extremely easy to buy apple devices, um, you know, once they are actually in existence. The damn phone hasn't been released yet. Nor has the OS that will run on it.
I got news for you, apple is so far from worrying about staying alive it's not even funny. And if you think that's the case you obviously are new around here. Why don't you check that stock and see how it's doing. Then feel bad you didn't buy it when it was less than $20 per share.
And how much money did people pay for those Android devices? 0, 10, 20, 50, 100? How long will that device last them before they have to replace it?
September 26 2011 at 3:51 PM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down ReplyDefinitely not as much as some Android handset manufacturer paid the two guys at the top of the comments.
There's no reason that you can't innovate and protect your patents at the same time--unlike some companies, Apple has a patent portfolio because they actually make cool, innovative things.
Seriously, the Android users I know either a) got their phones basically for free with a contract extension, and don't have much of an idea of what Android is--they just got a phone with a nice big screen to replace their Razr (and it takes photos!), or else they're tech heads who never seem to keep a handset for more than 3-4 months before they have go out and buy the latest "best phone ever!"...which they'll get tired of and sell on eBay within 100 days of purchase.
Android phones are cheaper, and so are their plans. A lot of my friends would love to have iPhones, but they choose Android phones instead because it isn't as expensive.
September 26 2011 at 3:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyProbably because of the anticipate new iPhone....folks hold off...check the other quarters when the rumors of a new iPhone were spreading and you will see similar results...also, it's hard to compete when services are giving away Droids (buy one get one)....
September 26 2011 at 3:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replythis isn't just about Android phones and iPhones though - many people are ditching Nokia and Blackberry smartphones and going to these platforms.
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