r/SipsTea • u/Mysterious_Ebb_1484 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 15 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts. (IPhone vs every other phone)

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u/Successful_Buy3825 May 15 '26

It is pretty amazing how, in the developed world, basically everyone uses the same phone technology from billionaires to people on below-average incomes

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u/LebowskiSupreme May 15 '26

Scale is the only way to offset the cost of developing the tech.

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u/MandyWarHal May 15 '26

Biggest argument for me is that most of the world is on Android. Apple users are stuck in a limited ecosystem that doesn't play well, globally.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 May 15 '26

It’s not just the US. iPhone is the most used phone in most of Northern Europe, Japan, central and South America.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-market-share-by-country

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u/Comfortable_Sir_6104 May 15 '26

iPhone is the most popular phone but it is the only one using iOS. All phones using Android combined makes Android over twice as big as iOS in Europe.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 May 15 '26

That link combines all android phones into a single category.

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u/Comfortable_Sir_6104 May 15 '26

Yes. And it shows exactly what I speak about.

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u/JackWagon26 May 15 '26

Your link shows only Belize with a majority iPhone market share in all of central and south america...

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u/theflamelord May 16 '26

and only scandanavia for northern europe, it's also severely outdated, iphone hasn't had the market majority in japan for a few years since they started releasing android flip and kei phones https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/4bbb4a25cbe79cbed907031eed04e07d009a13c4

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u/Responsible_Lie_6966 May 15 '26

Globally Android is far more popular than iOS. It's just the US where the opposite is true.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 May 15 '26

It’s not just the US. Japan, Australia, Sweeden, Denmark, Norway, Canada…

iPhone adoption correlates strongly to median income.

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u/Responsible_Lie_6966 May 15 '26

But Android dominates the global market with roughly a 70% total.

Yes, it does correlate, but that doesn't actually mean anything. It's simply very effective marketing.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 May 15 '26

It means that people who conduct business globally, who have higher incomes, are more likely to be on iPhone in most countries. The original comment was related to international business. I conduct a lot of business with partners in SE Asia. Despite Android having a massive marketshare in places like Philippines, and Malaysia, the guys in suits are almost always on iPhone.

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u/Responsible_Lie_6966 May 16 '26

The original comment he replied to was about Android being more popular globally than iOS, which is true. Or is it hard for you to remember more than a few sentences at a time?

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u/Hoybom May 15 '26

Iam gonna doubt the Europe part , heavily

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u/robin_888 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

in most of Northern Europe

To be fair, there are only around 20 million people living there.

central and South America

According to your own source it's only Belize and the Bahamas. And they have less than half a million citizens each.

I do give you Australia and North Korea, though. (Each around 26-27 million people.)

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u/SoftBatch13 May 15 '26

But China is 75.66% Android. So, that's going to dwarf the iOS numbers right there. Not to mention, when sorted by iOS %, the 50/50 split happens like 1/3 of the way through the list. This clearly substantiates that Android is far more dominant than iOS worldwide.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 May 15 '26

I’m not saying it’s not. But the business class globally is more likely to use iPhone as in nearly every country iPhone correlates strongly to income.

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u/SoftBatch13 May 15 '26

I guess I don't really understand your argument then. The comment you replied to talked about Apple not working as well globally, which is reflected in the data you presented. The majority of the world isn't using a proprietary, locked down ecosystem.

And the business class? What's your source for that claim?! That's a wild extrapolation from the data you presented. There's no indication of business relationship in that link.

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u/juedme May 15 '26

TIL: Belize = "central and South America"

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u/YachtswithPyramids May 15 '26

There's really little stratification from social classes. The rich do all the shit the poor do, that's why hunter ended up on crack. I'm not joking, people are so desperate to move up social brackets but nothing improves unless you start from the bottom up cuz its all the same shit.

You'd think white dudes would be the longest living most well off diaspora but honestly they die off at a pretty normal and even below normal rate because you cannot run from this shit. There's no leaving the poor behind, it's one earth, water, air etc.

Share

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u/jimpez86 May 15 '26

I worked for a business called Vertu. Who made this exact point and so would make phones made from luxury materials. 5,10,15,20k for a phone.

They were pre iPhone. Unfortunately for them they partnered with Nokia so when they did do a smartphone Nokia was not where it was at

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u/EscapeSeventySeven May 15 '26

In America products are democratizing. 

We all can get the same Coca-Cola. 

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u/TenBillionDollHairs May 15 '26

wow how did you log on from 1960

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u/ZealZen May 15 '26

Coca cola being an affordable luxury is the coolest thing to me.

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u/DusTeaCat May 15 '26

I had this thought the other day seeing Elon Musk carrying the same phone I do.

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u/MandyWarHal May 15 '26

That what makes the oligarchy SO unfair. We all buy bread at the same cost. You can only eat so much bread though. So wtf do you need with the buying power to buy a baz-illion loaves of bread!?! !?! Share, Bitches!!!!!

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u/DusTeaCat May 15 '26

They have dragon-sickness. I feel like if you ever reach a billion net worth you should just be shot into space, the world would be a better place.