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How many Android phones are there compared to Iphones in Ireland?

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  • #32
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    MiCr0 wrote: »
    statscounter does have mobile OS figures - no numbers, but does give percentages

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    Them statistics are based on Web site trackers. Not on actual sales statistics. Considering quite alot of people dont even touch the safari button on their phone, or touch it once a year i dont think you can take those figures with a pinch of salt :)

    As i said not everyone buys a smartphone to browse the web :)

    Some people buy them for sat nav, camera, pmp and have no real interest in browsing the web. They might use apps to do that stuff or w.e.


  • #33
    Scotty #
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭Scotty #


    draffodx wrote: »
    What I'm saying is that people blindly buy iPhone's simply because they are iPhone's and can say to their friends down the pub that they now have an iPhone.
    Agree 100%.

    Every single person I know that has bought an iPhone has bought it for no other reason than it's fashionable.

    I know several that weighed up the pro's and con's - but they all chose Android.


  • #34
    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    Scotty # wrote: »
    Agree 100%.

    Every single person I know that has bought an iPhone has bought it for no other reason than it's fashionable.

    I know several that weighed up the pro's and con's - but they all chose Android.

    Not everyone I know that bought one is like that though, like some people who just want a phone for normal features and some apps choose the iPhone and it rightfully suits them.


  • #35
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    MiCr0 wrote: »
    statscounter does have mobile OS figures - no numbers, but does give percentages

    That Statcounter stuff is interesting. Do you know if the counter is smart enough to count Android users that have changed their User Agent to desktop? It's probably not the majority of Android users but any of the Android users I know have done that.
    The desktop User Agent on apps like Dolphin does still identify itself as Android but I asked our media team here for our site stats and it doesn't recognise it in their reports. Would you know if Statscounter is the same?


  • #36
    Carlos Orange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭Carlos Orange


    Karsini wrote: »
    Nope, I remember the signage said "Android app coming soon" while showing the app running on iOS.

    There was an unofficial Luas app out a couple of days after they made the times available on the luas website. The official iPhone app arrived a good while after that. If you search the forum you will find a thread about it.


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  • #37
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,051 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    I've wondered this myself. From broad experience, more people that I know recently who have got Smart Phones have got one running the Android OS. However, I know a lot of nerds who are that bit more likely to have done some research into what would suit them.

    My sister got an iPhone recently and she readily admitted that she didn't really look into it but that her friends had one and she liked the look of them - which is fair enough, as it probably meets her needs. Her husband got an Android phone but that was based on price as much as anything (it achieving the same ends at a lower cost).

    Most casual consumers I believe do not research them. People here are actively interested in the platform and we in no way represent the average user. I do think the iPhone's success is some clever UI design and brilliant marketing by the late Jobs. The fact that others have taken it and improved on aspects of it in some regards is something that's only broadly penetrating people's minds recently.

    Oh and I'm just back from Canada and the US and I noticed less people with smart phones there than here. Can't say I noticed any more Android phones of those that I did see although Samsung are very heavily pushing the SGS II in both countries and I saw more ads for that phone than any other.


  • #38
    MiCr0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭MiCr0


    people definitely don't research phones, you just need to look at the number of people complaining about the battery life on the 4.5 inch screen smartphone with constant HSDPA and GPS compared to their old nokia 3210 which lasted a week.

    i'm also disappointed with the number of iphone/android users who never install any apps - i just can't understand why they have the phone??


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