Why are there so many iPhone users now?
I remember when Android dominated the market share. Now most of my friends and peers have iPhones
Why are there so many iPhone users now?
Josiah Brown
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Leo Reed
Idunno lol
Maybe because they aren't as expensive anymore.
Levi Sullivan
People realize that Android OS is a fucking meme
>shit performance, even with twice the RAM & CPU power of an iphone
>not reliable like an iphone
>bloatware
>some apps like Snapchat have more features/work better on iPhone, while the Android version is a shitty port
>no iMessage
>Android flagships like Samsung are a fucking joke when it comes to the build of their phones compared to Apple
Thomas Russell
Apple has always hovered around 12-20% of the handset market share. It only seems like more because the non Apple/Samsung part of the market is split between dozens of device makers. So you're more likely to see an Apple or Samsung logo than any other.
Possibly add to that, the once strong Nokia and Blackberry segments have withered away, making the otherwise steady Apple segment look like it grew.
Grayson Reyes
For me, they just work and see Android as a toy.
Josiah Brooks
People that have an actual productive role in society use Apple products.
Easton Barnes
I work with electrical engineers and not a single one owns or uses an Apple product.
Aiden Ward
Also the iPhone design has remained pretty consistent, even the "plus" model is just a bigger looking version. Other handset makers may have multiple disparate looking devices. Three Huawei owners might be sitting around you, but it'll look like three different phones to your eyes.
Christopher Wright
did you happen to move out of a flyover state, begin attending a proper four-year uni, get a promotion at work, etc? Maybe that's why you're noticing fewer of your peers using Android.
Alexander Jackson
>electrical engineers
>productive role in society
Case in point.
Cooper Rivera
consistency
ease of use
security
apps
performance
Kayden Green
>Android: 72%
>iOS: 18%
You're spending too much time on the internet, kid.
Xavier Lee
We're not talking about greasy illegal beaners and niggers with their boost mobile $50 Android phones. We're talking about productive people in society.
Owen Stewart
Top Android phones are too expensive now.
The Pixel and Galaxy are now just as and more expensive than the iphone, because they're trying to market themselves as higher class.
They're also copying the iPhone to the point of why bothering. The pixel is an iPhone clone and the next Galaxy has already shown it won't have a 3.5 jack and it looks like an iphone.
The oneplus phones got another price increase too, so expect the oneplus 5 to be ~$600 next year
Those are global numbers, so the vast majority are poojets and chinks
What is the distribution is just the US among whites.
Ian Taylor
None of which iOS can offer.
Daniel Wood
>Now most of my friends and peers have iPhones
>Now
Do you live in 2012? Welcome to the present day, shut-in.
Asher Roberts
>12-20%
this. 1 out of 5 is hardly "so many"
apple is the minority
Jeremiah Gray
See
Aaron Bell
Basically this. Android flagships are now reaching iphone prices without the iOS stability, support and ecosystem.
Adam Turner
You give too big a shit about what people are using and iPhones are easier to spot in a crowd.
Matthew Flores
Because it dominates markets for poor people
John Murphy
What country? iPhone market share is going down in the US.
Liam Powell
>the next Galaxy has already shown it won't have a 3.5 jack
Is this confirmed? And why? Honestly, if Samsung does this, I will never buy a Samsung phone until they bring it back. Screw them.
Luke Gomez
Welp:
gsmarena.com
>The report says that lack of 3.5mm jack will not only help keep the Galaxy S8 thin, but will also allow the device to pack in a bigger battery.
Damned bastards.
Jackson Perry
I noticed this too, most of my friends 4 years ago had various androids, now everyone, even me has an iPhone. Occasional S6 or S7 though.
Nolan Kelly
>normalfags
Mason Bell
>being dumb enough to think that everybody won't always try to copy Apple if they can
We all knew this was happening.
Hunter Evans
Yeah but iPhone doesn't have the following
>native file explorer
>drag and drop usb
>support for FLAC
>support for any fucking video extension not .mp4
>expandable memory
>affordable high capacity options
>easily obtainable OEM parts
>the ability to install packages from outside the default repository.
>root access.
>etc
I know you are gonna say retards don't care about these things. But they don't care about anything you mentioned either. It's really a coinflip for retards. And Android seems a no brainer for everyone else.
Easton Edwards
>not reliable like an iphone
Bullshit 3 of my buddies in the army had iphones either 5 or 6 in all of them their touchscreen didnt respond at all most of the time
and of course you cant remove the battery for reset so good luck waiting for the battery to die while people call you.
Jace Gonzalez
Because they opened it up to more carriers than just AT&T and those carriers got more aggressive with their deals for iPhones. It's no longer the richfag's phone.
Ethan Brooks
Numales,hipsters,liberals,failed artists and 16 year olds are not productive members of society faggot
Aiden Watson
People just want a reliable and simple app launcher you dumb autist. The average person, not the 'retard' as you call them, doesn't care for desktop computer functionality out of a smartphone.
Nolan Cox
I live near where that was taken
Levi Foster
Average people do tend to have a retard level relationship with technology though. They're very lucky that things "just work." One day both normies using iphone and android will be fucked and learn some terrible lessons about OPsec.
Jayden Hernandez
>bragging about root access
>literally an exploit to your OS
Nolan Anderson
they just work
Zachary Hernandez
It doesn't always have to be an exploit. Even if it is you have control over which applications have access to root. Obviously if you're not a dumbfuck you're not going to give it to random apps. One example for me was the Asiana Airlines app, it requested root and of course I didn't approve it.
Ian Miller
Because in 2016 Android is still slow and laggy. The Pixel gets blown out in synthetic and real world benchmarks by even the 6S.
Parker Sanchez
yeah cus google is giving you root access right?
oh that's right its a fucking exploit
Juan Evans
Your friends are verly likely extremely mentally ill people (ie homosexuals).
irl close to 90% of the world use Android smartphones.
Luke Williams
Yeah, phones allowing you to unlock the bootloader is totally an exploit. Such hax.
Angel Watson
>everyone keeps linking world wide stats
>counting all the poor people in india with andorid
>ignore ios and android are basically 50/50 in the US
Ayden Howard
Levi Cooper
>unlocked bootloaded != root access
Aiden Jenkins
>bootloaded
Do you even know what you're talking about?
David Russell
Once it is unlocked getting it is pretty much trivial. They know this. It's a feature not a bug.
Lucas Parker
That's strange? Everyone I know uses android. Must be location, and family. Some families use exclusively Iphones and some use exclusively android. My best friend has been using Droid every year fine it first came out and he gets a new Droid every year, I guess he's very loyal to his brand.
Christian Thompson
it's 2 different things
one lets you install custom roms/software
root access is needed on the rom
either way its exploits on the root access
you were literally bragging your OS has major flaws
Carter Perez
Never said apple didn't make bank. Of course you're gonna make billions when you charge 10X for a fucking logo and have a pool of extremely mentally people (ie homosexual) ready to suck your aluminum aids-infested cock.
In reality apple phone parts are as chinese as all the other ones found in Android phones.
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Eli Brooks
Nobody cares about over half of the things you listed, though.
Sup Forums nerds aren't a big factor in the phone market
Brandon Collins
iOS has major flaws too but they're traded for large sums of money and used to spy on dissidents instead of toyed with by a hobbyist community. The jailbreaking shit those chinks keep coming out with counts as a major flaw too but not quite on the same level.
Ian Baker
Jason James
>pixel phone is same price as iphone
>galaxy phones in the same range
>apple just sells 4x what competitors sell in a quarter
John Sullivan
>Why are there so many iPhone users now?
No carrier bloat, you actually get regular software updates and the FAA hasn't classified them as IED's.
Jaxon Carter
When was that?
Here in America iPhone has always dominated in real life use.
Xavier Roberts
Apparently they do. How else do you explain 90% android market share?
>inb4 "le android le users le are le poor XDDddd---"
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Gavin Price
Nathan Anderson
Anthony Bell
>no mensa verified IQ scores stated
hmmmm
Matthew James
>green bubble in imessage
>delete contact
Jaxson Clark
That's because only extremely mentally ill people (ie homosexuals) pay $1,000+ for a fucking phone with no expandable storage.
Lucas Sanchez
Who actually pays retail for a phone though?
Joseph Russell
>The $255 BOM for the Galaxy S7 is interestingly just $1 cheaper than the BOM for the older-gen Galaxy S5.
top kek
only apple is ripping you off!
$649 = $1000 now
even in other countried where it is $1000+ like australia the pixel is the same
Jaxon Brown
>How else do you explain 90% android market share?
>counting the 3rd world
Grayson Gomez
Thanks, didn't want to be frienda with an extremely mentally ill person (ie homosexual).
Ethan Perez
>muh worldwide share
>no android flagship has sold as well as iphones
...b...but it isn't all low end phones!
Levi Robinson
True, US is a third world country. It's closer to like 99% Android smartphone marketshare without niggerland included.
Chase Rodriguez
I own 3 $20 android phones for specific tasks.
You can't get a cheap disposable iphone
Cameron Evans
It's a status symbol to pay Verizon 200 bucks a month for the phone bill and contract, per phone.
Landon Jenkins
...
Thomas Baker
Officially the gayest thing I have ever seen.
And I've seen gay porn.
Jacob Nelson
I use a 16gb Galaxy S5 in 2016. It has a 128gb shark card in it. I don't have to use iTunes to sync my music to it. I like that. I only paid $200 for it to replace my old LG G2 with a fucked up screen. I didn't have to sign a contract with a carrier. My monthly bill is cheap because I'm on an MVNO.
While everybody else participates in a lame dick waving contest bragging about how much they spent, or coming up with some lame excuses about how they didn't pay retail when it's factored into their monthly bill anyhow I'm laughing. Phone performance hasn't truly improved that much. Each new generation pushed out is just an incremental improvement. Yet you're running the same fucking apps you ran on it two years ago.
Enjoy getting memed retards. This goes for both sides.
Caleb Jenkins
Average people don't NEED to know how microprocessors work on an engineering level. You're forgetting technology is a TOOL, not a test. People want shit to just do what they want for the purpose they want. They don't want to know how it works on a deep level, they don't care. Ask an average driver how the combustion engine works on an engineering level and they won't know.
Jayden White
Well that is convenient, I wouldn't want to be a friend with an illiterate homophobe either. See how effective my green bubble strategy is?
Jacob Perez
>over 1 billion iPhones alone sold
>all bought by western power bottom homosexuals
I don't know where this meme came from. I really don't. Most of the homosexuals are on here, ricing Linux and wearing pretty socks. Projection is the word.
Daniel Bennett
Poorfag.
Robert Ramirez
>iToddlers LITERALLY brag about how hard they get scammed
Angel Sullivan
But average people will think twice once their private information they've trusted to various services that may or may not be run by the creator of their phone's OS starts leaking en masse. It hasn't been as big of a problem as it was almost 10 years ago but we're due for some big ones!
You don't need to know anything about how the magnetic card reader at walmart works to swipe it then sign. You don't need to know what a fucking skimmer is either to get a big shock when you get your credit card bill. Being ignorant isn't something to be proud of. Defend it all you like and partake thinking if it works for everyone it must work for me too. Sweet bliss!
The real poorfags are the people who desperately seek to be parted with their wealth in order to affirm it.
John Robinson
You're probably an Amerifat. Get out of Amerifatistan and there won't be so many retarded good goys
Colton Jackson
There are great flac players for ios though.
Grayson Hernandez
Too bad there's no micro SD slot else I'd get one.
>inb4 "le use le cloud XD"
No thanks, I like having access to my shit 24/7 wherever I am and long battery life.
Jayden Brown
>But average people will think twice once their private information they've trusted to various services that may or may not be run by the creator of their phone's OS starts leaking en masse.
No, they won't.
Thomas Taylor
You'd be surprised. Remember MySpace?
Nolan Johnson
I wouldn't use the cloud either. I've found 128gb to be enough for me phone wise on android and ios though, even on month long trips, although I don't watch videos on my mobiles.
Nathaniel Miller
>although I don't watch videos on my mobiles.
Too manlet for a 5.7" android phone huh?
Jason Diaz
No, I own a laptop. They're incredible devices, you should try one.
Grayson Morgan
I own a phone with a 5.7" AMOLED 2560x1440p screen. They're incredible devices, you shouod try one.
Austin Reed
>watching videos on a 5.7" phone
It's like you're an autist or something
Henry Butler
Mines only 5.5 but there's no way I'd sit hunched watching that for 2 hours on a plane over sitting back with a laptop screen.
Seems like a far worse experience for a slight increase in convenience when I'm already having to carry my laptop with me.
Nathan Campbell
>shouod
What's the matter? Couldn't move your big guy hands accurately enough to type correctly?
Cooper King
cuz ur a fuckin loser you poor piece of shit like honestly do you really believe you have a droid because you think it's a better phone no of course not you dweeb it's because you are broke and can't afford the nicer product everyone knows this except for the rare few who deny it and latch onto an awful mobile os are something better anyway hey real nice talk but i'll be over here enjoying my superior phone with people who can afford to go out and enjoy things beer and food at restaurants and don't rely on their parents or live paycheck to paycheck BYYEEEEEE
Jaxson Kelly
t. someone with 20/200 vision
Kayden Morales
10/10 pasta
Jace Brown
do you keep a 3DS in the other pocket of your cargo shorts?
Tyler Rogers
>if you don't study your tech on a component level you're being willfully ignorant
I've located the unemployed burden of the state.
Nobody gives a shit, don't compare freetard/software exploit issues to fucking card skimming.
>I like having access to my shit 24/7 wherever I am
You're probably always at home, and so the concept of not having direct immediate access to your FLAC anime cartoon music NAS storage must be hard to comprehend. Trust me though, average people don't want to transplant the contents of their house when they're outside, nor do they need their gigglebytes of music at all times for an average day.
You cannot touch the top left corner of your display while holding the phone in your right hand. Unless you're technigger. You bought a fucking purse accessory to squint at YouTube videos while on the go, and not a functional device.
Aaron Taylor
People are retarded
besides Android still completely dominates the global market
Matthew Thomas
>do you keep a 10X power magnifying glass in the other pocket of your cargo shorts?
Tyler Foster
At least we still have One Plus
Don't really have any need to upgrade my One Plus One
Brayden Perry
iPhones dominate in the countries which dominate the global market. The buying habits of non-western people are irrelevant, we just want them to buy any shit they can afford. I don't care what some Mozambican or loojeet is using. Smartphones aren't even compatible with their lifestyles.
Angel Morales
poor people think an iphone is a sign of wealth