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Comment by eta_carinae | Hacker News Reader

> Big Market Share. Worthless user-base.

You sound exactly like these people standing in line for iPhones in the Samsung commercial.

If you look at sales the ratio of Android devices in poor countries is significantly higher than the US. But, for the vast majority of US developers it's pointless to count those people.

If you look at actual US sales, both iOS and Android are on the rise mostly by eating BlackBerry's lunch. Android is still almost 2x the size of iOS but again there far more popular on the cheap handset market and are harder to target due to the fragmented market.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/03/07/the-unrelenting-trends-in-t...

And of course, looking toward the market saturation point, every survey I've seen shows that the Android-> iOS switch rate is significantly higher than the iOS -> Android switch rate. If that changes, Apple should watch out.

Another interesting statistic, from Opera, was their report that iPad produced more ad revenue than all of Android.

Maybe because a far superior mobile browser, Chrome, is available on Android devices?

I use Chrome on my iPad.

Chrome on iOS isn't quite superior though. It's got a nicer interface but it feels much slower.

that commercial is a terrible piece of advertising. I would have gotten a samsung for testing because its the best android phone (as far as i can tell as an iphone user) but i won't anymore. Telling your potential customers that they are idiots isn't a good strategy. I'll buy a nexus, htc, or motorola instead.

Funny, that is exactly why I don't use Apple products.

Apple was accused of calling their own customers idiots with their 'Genius' ads (which they quickly discontinued). I'm assuming you will also be boycotting Apple?

> Telling your potential customers that they are idiots

Their potential customers are not people standing in line for hours to buy an iPhone, so the ad is spot on.

you're right. I will never buy copycat devices from Samsung.

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