iPhone 4S demand continues to overwhelm US carriers a month after launch

Steve~ said:

Ha! Another one exploded!!

That's two within the week.

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Steve~ said:

Your silly numbers only mean the brainwashing marketing is on point and nothing about 'quality' fanboy.

How easily you forget the 'Faux News' high ratings analogy. It fits with Apple.

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blackrock13 said:

Like I said when apple products come up short, it's a fail, but when they succeed, it's brainwashing. Even a fifth grader can see that's crap, but we're getting use to it from you Broomhauer

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djk said:

Exactly. I guess for some, the one trick pony never gets old.

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onthebottom said:

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onthebottom said:

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This week, tons of websites are reporting that Apple is catching up with Android when it comes to U.S. smartphone market share. The reports are based on some new data from Nielsen, a metrics company that measures smartphone use. The only problem: People are completely misinterpreting the data.

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If you look at Nielsen's actual data, you'll see that those referenced numbers refer only to "recent smartphone acquirers." In other words, the relative percentage of people actively buying new Apple phones increased over that three month period, according to Nielsen, while the relative percentage of people actively buying new Android phones went down. That's no surprise; we knew there'd be a spike in iPhone purchases following the launch of the new iPhone, particularly given the lull in sales preceding it, and of course that's going to have an impact on the entire short-term sales graph.

What we're looking at, though, is a zoomed-in view of sales during a small chunk of time. It is not the same thing as a surge forward in overall share of the smartphone market, as many stories out there would lead you to believe.

Nielsen didn't provide any info explicitly describing the change in overall market share, so I went back and pulled its last set of published numbers, showing U.S. smartphone market share for the third quarter of 2011. In those numbers, Android was at 42.8 percent and Apple was at 28.3 percent of the overall smartphone market. In the new quarter-four numbers, Android is at 46.3 percent while Apple is at 30 percent. Data from ComScore, another independent metrics company, shows a similar scenario.

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So did Apple grow in overall smartphone market share from the third to fourth quarter? Sure. But so did Android. And Android grew quite a bit more, gauging by Nielsen's measurements -- twice as much, with a total share increase of 3.5 points compared to Apple's 1.7. Despite the boost in iPhone sales following the launch of the iPhone 4S, the gap between the two platforms has actually continued to widen.

Damn facts. Always getting in the way of a good story.

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b4u said:

*cough*





*cough cough choke hack*



Apple centric sites and blogs not giving the complete picture to the uninitiated tech challenged Apple fans!

The real story has never changed....Android growth is still far exceeding Apple even with the growth spurt of the new iPhoneS which was completely expected from the Apple starved fans waiting so long between phone releases.....



No, Apple isn't 'closing in' on Android










And we all know OTB and a few others live on facts!!

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