{"id":3695,"date":"2019-11-05T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:00:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T12:00:35","slug":"what-percentage-of-people-like-the-iphone-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/what-percentage-of-people-like-the-iphone-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"“What percentage of people like the iPhone brand?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Answer requested via Quora)<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you go by sales, the answer is about 10%, which is Apple\u2019s current smartphone marketshare:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apple’s 10% is third place behind Samsung (23%) and Huawei (18%),<\/em><\/strong>
and about equal with Xiaomi.<\/em><\/strong>
(Global smartphone market share 2019 | Statista<\/a>)

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(Apple fans tend not to believe stats like this, so here’s a pile of alternate sources: “smartphone market share” – (Google Search<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple\u2019s aggressive marketing makes most people think that Apple sales are far larger\/better than they are. Apple is<\/strong><\/em> extremely rich, but that\u2019s because they charge high prices with enormous profit margins; not because they dominate sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s much the same desktop PCs. Apple marketing makes it seem like Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS are somehow close rivals. They’re not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Desktop OS market share as of September 2019,
according to NetMarketShare<\/a> \/Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bottom line:<\/strong> Apple is a phenomenally skillful marketing company (their ads are great<\/u><\/strong><\/em>!), but its products aren’t nearly as popular as Apple wants you to think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Answer requested via Quora) If you go by sales, the answer is about 10%, which is Apple\u2019s current smartphone marketshare: (Apple fans tend not to believe stats like this, so here’s a pile of alternate sources: “smartphone market share” – (Google Search) Apple\u2019s aggressive marketing makes most people think that Apple sales are far larger\/better…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-reader-asks","category-smartphones","category-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-XB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5105,"url":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/03\/what-drains-the-battery-the-quickest-on-a-smartphone\/","url_meta":{"origin":3695,"position":0},"title":"“What drains the battery the quickest on a smartphone?”","author":"Fred Langa","date":"2020-06-03","format":false,"excerpt":"(Answer requested by Benjamin Woods) There are three main drains: The Screen, with three major subcategories: brightness, pixel density (e.g. HD, FHD, 4K, etc.), and refresh rate. 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