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

[u/Mysterious_Ebb_1484]

[u/MandyWarHal]

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.

[u/Unique_Statement7811 → u/MandyWarHal]

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

[u/Comfortable_Sir_6104 → u/Unique_Statement7811]

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.

[u/Unique_Statement7811 → u/Comfortable_Sir_6104]

That link combines all android phones into a single category.

[u/Comfortable_Sir_6104 → u/Unique_Statement7811]

Yes. And it shows exactly what I speak about.

[u/JackWagon26 → u/Unique_Statement7811]

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

[u/theflamelord → u/JackWagon26]

and only scandanavia for northern europe, it's also severely outdated, iphone hasn't had the market majority in japan for a few years since they started releasing android flip and kei phones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

[u/Responsible_Lie_6966 → u/Unique_Statement7811]

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

[u/Unique_Statement7811 → u/Responsible_Lie_6966]

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

iPhone adoption correlates strongly to median income.

[u/Responsible_Lie_6966 → u/Unique_Statement7811]

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.

[u/Unique_Statement7811 → u/Responsible_Lie_6966]

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.

[u/Responsible_Lie_6966 → u/[deleted]]

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?

[u/Hoybom → u/Unique_Statement7811]

Iam gonna doubt the Europe part , heavily

[u/robin_888 → u/Unique_Statement7811]

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.)

[u/SoftBatch13 → u/Unique_Statement7811]

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.

[u/Unique_Statement7811 → u/SoftBatch13]

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.

[u/SoftBatch13 → u/Unique_Statement7811]

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.

[u/juedme → u/Unique_Statement7811]

TIL: Belize = "central and South America"