52.4% of the mobile market in the US belongs to iOS[1], and 47% to Android.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
Quoting:
> Apple iOS continues to hold its large share of the smartphone operating systems’ market within the United States, claiming more than half of the market in May 2020.
> ...
> Android still the one to catch
> Android, however, still holds the largest share of the United States smartphone operating systems’ market and has done for many year.
So this is about the smartphone operating systems, in the united states. Apple has “more than half of the market”, and Android has “the largest share”. How are both statements possibly true?
Market share /= number of devices.
Apple owns the "market", ie the money. Apple owners spend vastly more on their OS (via playstore). Android might be running on vastly more devices, but the people who matter, the rich people with money to spend on camera apps, spend that money via iPhones.
We live in a world where whales matter more than customers. The legions of android users who use their phones to make phonecalls, as internet browsers, and as navigational tools ... they don't matter as much as any single iPhone user who regularly drops a few hundred every month on eye candy iPhone backgrounds.
Android users made a choice to prioritize their smartphone less in their financial lives by getting a cheaper device (except for the 5-6 HN commenters who got an Android because of a personal vendetta against the Apple App Store policies).
It stands to reason that the people who decided not to spend money on a smartphone also decide not to spend money on smartphone apps.
A nerd get an Android, where a teenager will get an iPhone. It's simply a low information consumer buying an overpriced product.
Sorry to burst your bubble of pretention but the highest end android phones are in another league of price and have been for a long time.
To be fair I won't even bother comparing the Zflip2 foldable because it's more of a proof of concept than something many people buy but it's price tag would make you blush. So, the numbers: the latest and greatest iPhone 12 max is $1549 CAD while Samsung's Note 20 Ultra 512GB is $2029.99 CAD.
If someone is willing to overpay for an inferior product, they likely will also impulse buy more often than someone who shops and researches phones..
[1] https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2020/01/in-2019...