Android is Now the Most Popular OS Among Recent Buyers
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Posted October 5, 2010 at 11:28am by iClarified
According to August data from The Nielsen Company, Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months, while Blackberry RIM and Apple iOS are in a statistical dead heat for second place among recent acquirers.
The Nielsen data covers a period that includes a full-month of iPhone 4 availability.
Among all smartphone owners, Blackberry still holds the dominant share with 31 percent of the market, though its lead over Apple is declining. Twenty-eight percent of smartphone owners have Apple iPhones, compared to 19 percent who have Android devices.
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Now android can be infected by a Trojan
http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/2286/Android_SMS_Trojan_Now_Being_Delivered_via_SEO_Techniques
iPhone's still secure!!!!!
Learn to read graphs pple
Clearly The number one is Blackberry then iPhone then droid...based on the graph
Droid line has been under all the others for 5/6 months on that graph therefore it still sucks (based on 6 months sales as depicted by the graph) pple just bought the droid last couple months coz the iPhone was too much in demand n they couldnt wait for 3-8wks for the shipment. The iPhone ships in 5 days now
Droid only had more sales than the other 2 for 1 month so no reason to celebrate n talk as if droid has taken over the market. Need another 6 month graph t see if droid can hold top dawg position for more than 2 months. Especially with the holiday season coming up.
comment above me im not dissin android but you do know that iphone is only on ATT and not many people can afford to pay that much on plan specially college students. among college student you see mostly sprint and they got android phones.
apple iphone is only in one carrier and still kicking ass android are been sold and any carrier you can think off and until now is just getting little better wait when iphone move to other carriers im sure you would get one too
i don't have anything against android i have used it in past. but could it be that android is on every single cell career in US and people who wants to buy iphone but don't wanna spend so much on ATT and Tmobile they just end up getting android on sprint.
i believe exactly the same if iphone was on all of them it would be crazy up the ski the sales
i know easy 40 that want the iphone but dont want to change carriers
But it's true. The only reason Android users get a new Android phone is because it craps out on us everytime. We buy a new one hoping its better, but most of the time its not.
I've recently left iPhone for HTC Desire. Had 3g, 3gs & iP4. Sold iP4 after crap recetion/data speeds. The OS in the iPhone is becoming boring as well. I'm glad I have changed, my phone does everything an iPhone did and it's much more fun. I like apple hardware like most people but I cannot support a company that treats it's customers like apple have done in the last year.
Had the 3g and the 3gs and honestly...my HTC Desire wipes the floor with both of them, only thing I miss is the App store but even then the Android market is catching up
You just miss the critical mass around the iPhone.
The widest developer community for handhelds after the PalmOS Community.
And Android will be always going behind.
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