Why are there so many iPhone users now? I remember when Android

Idunno lol

Maybe because they aren't as expensive anymore.

People realize that Android OS is a fucking meme

>shit performance, even with twice the RAM & CPU power of an iphone
>not reliable like an iphone
>bloatware
>some apps like Snapchat have more features/work better on iPhone, while the Android version is a shitty port
>no iMessage
>Android flagships like Samsung are a fucking joke when it comes to the build of their phones compared to Apple

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Apple has always hovered around 12-20% of the handset market share. It only seems like more because the non Apple/Samsung part of the market is split between dozens of device makers. So you're more likely to see an Apple or Samsung logo than any other.

Possibly add to that, the once strong Nokia and Blackberry segments have withered away, making the otherwise steady Apple segment look like it grew.

>>57891102
For me, they just work and see Android as a toy.

People that have an actual productive role in society use Apple products.

>>57891336
I work with electrical engineers and not a single one owns or uses an Apple product.

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>>57891287
Also the iPhone design has remained pretty consistent, even the "plus" model is just a bigger looking version. Other handset makers may have multiple disparate looking devices. Three Huawei owners might be sitting around you, but it'll look like three different phones to your eyes.

>>57891102

did you happen to move out of a flyover state, begin attending a proper four-year uni, get a promotion at work, etc? Maybe that's why you're noticing fewer of your peers using Android.

>>57891366

>electrical engineers
>productive role in society

Case in point.

consistency

ease of use

security

apps

performance

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>>57891102
>Android: 72%
>iOS: 18%
You're spending too much time on the internet, kid.

>>57891492
We're not talking about greasy illegal beaners and niggers with their boost mobile $50 Android phones. We're talking about productive people in society.

Top Android phones are too expensive now.

The Pixel and Galaxy are now just as and more expensive than the iphone, because they're trying to market themselves as higher class.

They're also copying the iPhone to the point of why bothering. The pixel is an iPhone clone and the next Galaxy has already shown it won't have a 3.5 jack and it looks like an iphone.

The oneplus phones got another price increase too, so expect the oneplus 5 to be ~$600 next year


>>57891492

Those are global numbers, so the vast majority are poojets and chinks

What is the distribution is just the US among whites.

>>57891438
None of which iOS can offer.

>Now most of my friends and peers have iPhones
>Now

Do you live in 2012? Welcome to the present day, shut-in.

>>57891287
>12-20%

this. 1 out of 5 is hardly "so many"
apple is the minority

>>57891674
See >>57891631

>>57891158
Basically this. Android flagships are now reaching iphone prices without the iOS stability, support and ecosystem.

You give too big a shit about what people are using and iPhones are easier to spot in a crowd.

Because it dominates markets for poor people

>>57891102
What country? iPhone market share is going down in the US.

>>57891631
>the next Galaxy has already shown it won't have a 3.5 jack
Is this confirmed? And why? Honestly, if Samsung does this, I will never buy a Samsung phone until they bring it back. Screw them.

>>57892085
Welp:
http://www.gsmarena.com/no_35mm_headphone_jack_for_samsung_galaxy_s8_report_confirms-news-22033.php
>The report says that lack of 3.5mm jack will not only help keep the Galaxy S8 thin, but will also allow the device to pack in a bigger battery.
Damned bastards.

I noticed this too, most of my friends 4 years ago had various androids, now everyone, even me has an iPhone. Occasional S6 or S7 though.

>normalfags

>>57892122

>being dumb enough to think that everybody won't always try to copy Apple if they can

We all knew this was happening.

>>57891248
Yeah but iPhone doesn't have the following
>native file explorer
>drag and drop usb
>support for FLAC
>support for any fucking video extension not .mp4
>expandable memory
>affordable high capacity options
>easily obtainable OEM parts
>the ability to install packages from outside the default repository.
>root access.
>etc
I know you are gonna say retards don't care about these things. But they don't care about anything you mentioned either. It's really a coinflip for retards. And Android seems a no brainer for everyone else.

>>57891248
>not reliable like an iphone
Bullshit 3 of my buddies in the army had iphones either 5 or 6 in all of them their touchscreen didnt respond at all most of the time
and of course you cant remove the battery for reset so good luck waiting for the battery to die while people call you.

Because they opened it up to more carriers than just AT&T and those carriers got more aggressive with their deals for iPhones. It's no longer the richfag's phone.

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>>57891336
>>57891426
Numales,hipsters,liberals,failed artists and 16 year olds are not productive members of society faggot

>>57892484

People just want a reliable and simple app launcher you dumb autist. The average person, not the 'retard' as you call them, doesn't care for desktop computer functionality out of a smartphone.

>>57892549
I live near where that was taken

>>57892596
Average people do tend to have a retard level relationship with technology though. They're very lucky that things "just work." One day both normies using iphone and android will be fucked and learn some terrible lessons about OPsec.

>>57892484
>bragging about root access
>literally an exploit to your OS

they just work

>>57892634
It doesn't always have to be an exploit. Even if it is you have control over which applications have access to root. Obviously if you're not a dumbfuck you're not going to give it to random apps. One example for me was the Asiana Airlines app, it requested root and of course I didn't approve it.

Because in 2016 Android is still slow and laggy. The Pixel gets blown out in synthetic and real world benchmarks by even the 6S.

>>57892667
yeah cus google is giving you root access right?

oh that's right its a fucking exploit

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Your friends are verly likely extremely mentally ill people (ie homosexuals).

irl close to 90% of the world use Android smartphones.

>>57892718
Yeah, phones allowing you to unlock the bootloader is totally an exploit. Such hax.

>everyone keeps linking world wide stats
>counting all the poor people in india with andorid

>ignore ios and android are basically 50/50 in the US

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>>57892736
http://www.cbronline.com/news/mobility/devices/apple-ios-grabs-91-percent-smartphone-profits-despite-android-surge/

>>57892742
>unlocked bootloaded != root access

>>57892766
>bootloaded
Do you even know what you're talking about?

>>57892766
Once it is unlocked getting it is pretty much trivial. They know this. It's a feature not a bug.

That's strange? Everyone I know uses android. Must be location, and family. Some families use exclusively Iphones and some use exclusively android. My best friend has been using Droid every year fine it first came out and he gets a new Droid every year, I guess he's very loyal to his brand.

>>57892797
it's 2 different things

one lets you install custom roms/software

root access is needed on the rom

either way its exploits on the root access

you were literally bragging your OS has major flaws

>>57892757
Never said apple didn't make bank. Of course you're gonna make billions when you charge 10X for a fucking logo and have a pool of extremely mentally people (ie homosexual) ready to suck your aluminum aids-infested cock.

In reality apple phone parts are as chinese as all the other ones found in Android phones.

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-6s-plus-aluminium-chipping.1930678/page-23

http://m.gsmarena.com/iphone_7_explodes_car_catches_fire_in_australia-news-21207.php

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/181713/20161012/iphone-6-plus-touch-disease-more-law-firms-pressure-apple-to-acknowledge-engineering-flaw-of-iphone-6-plus.htm

>>57892484
Nobody cares about over half of the things you listed, though.

/g/ nerds aren't a big factor in the phone market

>>57892811
iOS has major flaws too but they're traded for large sums of money and used to spy on dissidents instead of toyed with by a hobbyist community. The jailbreaking shit those chinks keep coming out with counts as a major flaw too but not quite on the same level.

>>57892835
http://www.redmondpie.com/google-pixel-pixel-xl-vs-apple-iphone-7-7-plus-benchmarks-comparison/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/displaymate-analysis-apple-iphone-7-has-the-best-lcd-display-ever-tested/

Stay buttblasted pajeet.

>>57892835
>pixel phone is same price as iphone
>galaxy phones in the same range
>apple just sells 4x what competitors sell in a quarter

>>57891102

>Why are there so many iPhone users now?

No carrier bloat, you actually get regular software updates and the FAA hasn't classified them as IED's.

>>57891102
When was that?
Here in America iPhone has always dominated in real life use.

>>57892836
Apparently they do. How else do you explain 90% android market share?

>inb4 "le android le users le are le poor XDDddd---"

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1719057/Why-iPhone-users-look-rich-but-are-usually-poor.html

>>57892848
Wrong meme

http://m.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/One-in-every-3-Apple-engineers-is-Indian/articleshow/39131973.cms

>>57892871
http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/22/technology/mobile/iphone-smart-study/

Yawn.

>>57892885
>no mensa verified IQ scores stated
hmmmm

>green bubble in imessage
>delete contact

>>57892849
That's because only extremely mentally ill people (ie homosexuals) pay $1,000+ for a fucking phone with no expandable storage.

>>57892906

Who actually pays retail for a phone though?

>>57892835
>The $255 BOM for the Galaxy S7 is interestingly just $1 cheaper than the BOM for the older-gen Galaxy S5.

top kek

only apple is ripping you off!

>>57892906
$649 = $1000 now

even in other countried where it is $1000+ like australia the pixel is the same

>>57892871
>How else do you explain 90% android market share?
>counting the 3rd world

>>57892903
Thanks, didn't want to be frienda with an extremely mentally ill person (ie homosexual).

>muh worldwide share
>no android flagship has sold as well as iphones

...b...but it isn't all low end phones!

>>57892923
True, US is a third world country. It's closer to like 99% Android smartphone marketshare without niggerland included.

>>57892871
I own 3 $20 android phones for specific tasks.

You can't get a cheap disposable iphone

>>57891102
It's a status symbol to pay Verizon 200 bucks a month for the phone bill and contract, per phone.

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>>57892835

>>57892966
Officially the gayest thing I have ever seen.

And I've seen gay porn.

I use a 16gb Galaxy S5 in 2016. It has a 128gb shark card in it. I don't have to use iTunes to sync my music to it. I like that. I only paid $200 for it to replace my old LG G2 with a fucked up screen. I didn't have to sign a contract with a carrier. My monthly bill is cheap because I'm on an MVNO.

While everybody else participates in a lame dick waving contest bragging about how much they spent, or coming up with some lame excuses about how they didn't pay retail when it's factored into their monthly bill anyhow I'm laughing. Phone performance hasn't truly improved that much. Each new generation pushed out is just an incremental improvement. Yet you're running the same fucking apps you ran on it two years ago.

Enjoy getting memed retards. This goes for both sides.

>>57892623

Average people don't NEED to know how microprocessors work on an engineering level. You're forgetting technology is a TOOL, not a test. People want shit to just do what they want for the purpose they want. They don't want to know how it works on a deep level, they don't care. Ask an average driver how the combustion engine works on an engineering level and they won't know.

>>57892924

Well that is convenient, I wouldn't want to be a friend with an illiterate homophobe either. See how effective my green bubble strategy is?

>>57892835

>over 1 billion iPhones alone sold
>all bought by western power bottom homosexuals

I don't know where this meme came from. I really don't. Most of the homosexuals are on here, ricing Linux and wearing pretty socks. Projection is the word.

>>57892981

Poorfag.

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>>57892757
>iToddlers LITERALLY brag about how hard they get scammed

>>57892998
But average people will think twice once their private information they've trusted to various services that may or may not be run by the creator of their phone's OS starts leaking en masse. It hasn't been as big of a problem as it was almost 10 years ago but we're due for some big ones!

You don't need to know anything about how the magnetic card reader at walmart works to swipe it then sign. You don't need to know what a fucking skimmer is either to get a big shock when you get your credit card bill. Being ignorant isn't something to be proud of. Defend it all you like and partake thinking if it works for everyone it must work for me too. Sweet bliss!

>>57893029
The real poorfags are the people who desperately seek to be parted with their wealth in order to affirm it.

>>57891102
You're probably an Amerifat. Get out of Amerifatistan and there won't be so many retarded good goys

>>57892484
There are great flac players for ios though.

>>57893114
Too bad there's no micro SD slot else I'd get one.

>inb4 "le use le cloud XD"
No thanks, I like having access to my shit 24/7 wherever I am and long battery life.

>>57893050
>But average people will think twice once their private information they've trusted to various services that may or may not be run by the creator of their phone's OS starts leaking en masse.
No, they won't.

>>57893160
You'd be surprised. Remember MySpace?

>>57893134
I wouldn't use the cloud either. I've found 128gb to be enough for me phone wise on android and ios though, even on month long trips, although I don't watch videos on my mobiles.

>>57893180
>although I don't watch videos on my mobiles.
Too manlet for a 5.7" android phone huh?

>>57893209
No, I own a laptop. They're incredible devices, you should try one.

>>57893232
I own a phone with a 5.7" AMOLED 2560x1440p screen. They're incredible devices, you shouod try one.

>>57893247
>watching videos on a 5.7" phone
It's like you're an autist or something

>>57893247
Mines only 5.5 but there's no way I'd sit hunched watching that for 2 hours on a plane over sitting back with a laptop screen.

Seems like a far worse experience for a slight increase in convenience when I'm already having to carry my laptop with me.

>>57893247
>shouod
What's the matter? Couldn't move your big guy hands accurately enough to type correctly?

cuz ur a fuckin loser you poor piece of shit like honestly do you really believe you have a droid because you think it's a better phone no of course not you dweeb it's because you are broke and can't afford the nicer product everyone knows this except for the rare few who deny it and latch onto an awful mobile os are something better anyway hey real nice talk but i'll be over here enjoying my superior phone with people who can afford to go out and enjoy things beer and food at restaurants and don't rely on their parents or live paycheck to paycheck BYYEEEEEE

>>57893282
>>57893301
>>57893305
t. someone with 20/200 vision

>>57893332
10/10 pasta

>>57893336
do you keep a 3DS in the other pocket of your cargo shorts?

>>57893050

>if you don't study your tech on a component level you're being willfully ignorant

I've located the unemployed burden of the state.

Nobody gives a shit, don't compare freetard/software exploit issues to fucking card skimming.

>>57893134

>I like having access to my shit 24/7 wherever I am

You're probably always at home, and so the concept of not having direct immediate access to your FLAC anime cartoon music NAS storage must be hard to comprehend. Trust me though, average people don't want to transplant the contents of their house when they're outside, nor do they need their gigglebytes of music at all times for an average day.

>>57893247

You cannot touch the top left corner of your display while holding the phone in your right hand. Unless you're technigger. You bought a fucking purse accessory to squint at YouTube videos while on the go, and not a functional device.

>>57891102
People are retarded

besides Android still completely dominates the global market

>>57893386
>do you keep a 10X power magnifying glass in the other pocket of your cargo shorts?

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>>57892085
>>57892122
At least we still have One Plus

Don't really have any need to upgrade my One Plus One

>>57893393

iPhones dominate in the countries which dominate the global market. The buying habits of non-western people are irrelevant, we just want them to buy any shit they can afford. I don't care what some Mozambican or loojeet is using. Smartphones aren't even compatible with their lifestyles.

>>57891102
poor people think an iphone is a sign of wealth

>>57893455
You do realize US is a nigger infested third-world country on the brink of collapse right?

>>57891425
I noticed the opposite. When I'm back home visiting suburbia, every teenager, older parent and townie who still wants to be cool has an iPhone, where when im back at my place in the city, they're much less ubiquitous.

>>57891426
what

>>57892484
File explorer and USB interaction is too much to let go of. How people get by without it is kind of pathetic. I imagine it's like wiping your ass with your fingers because you never knew toilet paper existed

>>57891102
Because you're poor, brotha.

>>57893392
You don't need to study it on a component level. You just need to have a basic understanding of how it works. Schools should be teaching these things to the next generation.

Those two things can be compared very easily too. In both cases you're trusting your privacy and security to somebody else without giving it a second thought. There needs to be some awareness. Like, well, I don't know. Maybe instead of Donald Trump/Hillary Clinton memes people should share pictures of skimmers on Facebook and tell others to look out for them. Maybe it should be explained to people that the naked selfie they send on Snapchat can be saved without their knowledge by anyone with a rooted OR JAILBROKEN (had to emphasize that this applies to your precious common man's phone you Maoist sounding faggot, eat a dick) phone.

Things like Ashley Madison and PSN happened in a vacuum but there's very little in the way of preventing something big that could apply to everyone including me. That's why I'm wary of the things I do. I am a normal person with friends. I have a Facebook. I've sent dick pics over the internet, sure. I'm fully aware that somebody might see them some day and I don't really care. Many people do though, and they have a right to know someone might see them.

>>57892549
B-buy they are, anon.

>>57892549
iTODDLERS BTFO

>>57892600
Congrats.

>>57892484
Literally don't wan't any of that.

My iphone has the longest lasting battery I've experienced in real world conditions, hard proper hardware encryption, so I'll continue to support them. And every year I can sell the previous one and buy a brand new one with little more than $100 because of the value they hold without dropping like a fucking tank.

All my songs are on spotify, even then my 128gb has a few lists downloaded automatically for when reception drops. No idea why I would bother downloading individual songs off the net anymore.

The newest update removing the headset has pissed me off, that's about it.

Screen is also incredibly cheap to replace compared to Samsungs.

>>57893633

>longest lasting battery I've experienced in real world conditions

Yeah, because all you use is iPhones, dumbass. Any phone with a hot swappable battery btfo any iPhone. To say nothing of the fact that iPhones STILL don't have fucking fast charging 5 years after its been out.

>proper hardware encryption

What's the fucking point if everything gets backed up to the icloud anyway? If you're talking about your stupid icloud lock, Samsung has had a similar feature for 5 years now.

>muh resale value

I guess retards overpaying for old tech is a good deal for people selling their iPhones. It's not such a good deal when you're the one overpaying for the old tech though.

>muh cloud storage

Almost everyone in burgerland is stuck overpaying for service with a 5gb cap. Anyone who uses their phone extensively has bandwidth issues. It's ridiculous that iPhone still won't include a 5¢ SD card slot because they want to make extra money on retards like you who pay $5 for every extra gb of internal storage.

>screen is incredibly cheap to replace

Because it's objectively one of the worst screens on the market. It's absurd that they're still using non-AMOLED 1080p screens. Everyone else upgraded their resolution 5 years ago.

>>57893762

>thinking the issue of not having SD car compatibility is merely a BOM issue

You absolute and utter fucking retard. You don't know shit about technology. Back to YouTube comments you teenage skidmark.

>>57893633
wow you sure struck a nerve with this guy
>>57893762


I'm also going to enjoy my superior iPhone. Android plebs don't even know

>>57893795
>You absolute and utter fucking retard. You don't know shit about technology.

>t. iToddler

>>57893795

>Apple can spend millions developing retarded wireless ear buds but a few dollars to develop SD card compatibility is too much

Fuck off. It's all about the shekels. As long as retards like you will pay 200 dollars more for 60 extra gbs of storage, they won't include an SD card slot. It's also a convenient way to push their (((cloud))) bullshit and rack up bandwidth for the cell phone companies they partner with. They'd rather fuck you three different ways than spent 5 cents more a unit to have a chink kid solder on an SD card adapter.

>>57893833

NOT AN ARGUMENT.

IPhones have their use: old people who can't into technology or hipsters/women who hivemind when it comes to technology. I'd rather pay less money and not live in a walled garden controlled by Tim Cuck. Plus, I'm quite fond of my IR remote, Tor browser, ad blocker, and SSH capabilities.

>>57892484
this is a good set of the main benefits of android over iOS. at the end of the day, a lot of people decided that they dont need to use their phone for those things and are willing to sacrifice them for >>57891248
basically just comes down to personal preference/how you intend to use your phone

>>57892526
theres a force reset

>>57893881
>(((cloud)))
>Tim Cuck
>LOUD NOISES

Oh, I see. You're retarded. Carry on, sperglord

because you can get an se for fucking 300 dollars

>>57893957

>ignore actual argument
>make fun of my meme flourishes instead

Yeah, you're definitely Apple's main demographic.

>>57893978
>meme flourishes
your meme flourishes are shit! SHIT NIGGA!

LMAO tbtfo tbqh senpai fucking roasted

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>>57894041

>nigga

>>57893978

That wasn't even me, its late and I can't be bothered to explain how dumb you are. Its all about the OS's handling of removable media. It is a clusterfuck. Expandable storage these days only appeals to autists who want to carry their whole music library at all times and are too dumb to realize $/GB with internal storage and SD cards is barely any different. The price of the actual NAND between storage tiers is pretty much sold at cost. It is more expensive than SD storage of course because its obviously much better, any internal storage beats SD performance.

>>57895235

>obviously much better

There's absolutely no discernable difference between class 10 and NAND for the average user. If there were no profit motive for the company in selling their higher capacity phones, then they would have every incentive to just put out phones with 32gb NAND for the ROM and critical apps, and a microSD slot for everything else. This would significantly simplify manufacturing and reduce the required stock on hand by hundreds of millions of dollars.

They're making money on these "upgraded" units, loads of it.

>>57895306
lmao brings up the average user

you know what the average user doesn't give a shit about?

sd cards

or finding out why half the shit is on SD card in some shitty ad ridden file browser app and half on the phone
>>57895306
lmao brings up the average user

you know what the average user doesn't give a shit about?

sd cards

or finding out why half the shit is on SD card in some shitty ad ridden file browser app and half on the phone

>average users love going through a DCIM folder

>>57891687
>stability
At my work they crash at least 3x a day and have to be switched off with the power-home button combo.
Sure our shitty apps are at fault, but any OS that can be easily crashed by an app that has a busy waiting while in it (not my fault and not something I can change) is a shitty, unstable os

>>57895338

>finding out half the shit is on an SD card

How exactly would the find out? SD card failure rates are on par with NAND. To say nothing of the perk for costumers or being able to plug in their old microSD card into their new phone and have all their files *just werk*.

>ad ridden file browser app

u wut? Nobody uses the file browser to find songs.

It's bizarre. You act as though this can't be done. Virtually every phone until 2010 had a microSD card slot. It was only cut when cell phone companies realized the money that could be made by overcharging customers for storage.

>>57895459
did you even read

wtf you talking about sd card failure rates

im talking about half the users shit would be on sd cards depending on app preferences

average users dont get this shit

its the exact reason google removed them they said its a fragmented experiance

and in most cases you would need a file browser to check the card

>>57895483

>(((fragmented experience)))

There's absolutely no scenario where an average user would know the difference between the two.

Media players scan the whole system for files, so there's no need for a file browser there. I've rarely needed the file browser and I'm something of a power user.

>half the users shit would be on a microSD card

I don't understand this argument. How is this worse than having all of the users data on internal storage?

Hell, the new version of Android has a (((feature))) that lets you merge the SD into internal storage so there is practically no difference from a users perspective.

You're really not making any valid arguments as to why banning microSD cards benefits anyone except for cell phone manufacturers and network providers pushing their overpriced "upgrades" and (((cloud storage))).

>>57892480
The blind are leading the blind. I was hoping for >50 IQ from Samsung, but I guess I gave them too much credit.

>>57891631
>Those are global numbers

How is no one understanding this? In the US iOS has hovered around 40% market share for some time.

Additionally if you compare Apple's market share against other smartphone _hardware_ manufactures they are the leader. They retain the same ~40% share (as all Apple mobile devices run iOS) with the next competitor Samsung having roughly ~27% of users.

Androids strength is its "openness" but it's also its biggest weakness. The platform is disconnected. It is entirely possible (and likely) to go out and purchase a several hundred dollar phone and it turn out to be garbage, or lacking reasonable support. There have been many fantastic android devices over the last few years but it represents a small percentage of the overwhelming number of available devices running the OS.

tl;dr There aren't bad iPhones, only old ones.

>>57895642

>there are no bad iPhones

The iPhone isn't especially good. It represents a bland high-end smartphone that *just werks* so long as you buy into their (((ecosystem))) and don't expect to be able to use it for anything except stuff a normie would.

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>>57895642
>It is entirely possible (and likely) to go out and purchase a several hundred dollar phone and it turn out to be garbage
Like iPhones.

I honestly don't know what you're talkin about. If you look at the numbers, iOS marketshare fell and androids share grew.
Well, there are obviously differences in marketshare depending on the country, but here in germany, only the hipster wannabe itgirls have iPhones while 70% of the class has xperias, huaweis and sumsangs. US fags will always get iPhones though, not unexpected of a country with an IQ below 100 in most states.

>>57891102
>Now most of my friends and peers have iPhones
You want us to believe you hang out with people who own iPhones? Get out of here!

>>57895738
>Unlike iPhones.
Fixed.

Inability to install apps from outside the store is my main issue. The app store itself is too limited, but I can accept that. I run both the play store and f-droid on my phone and I still have to get Firefox Nightly separately. No app store is perfect. I really do need a good keyboard, terminal, ability to ssh, and a good web browser as my bare minimum, though. I use the fuck out of juicessh, Firefox Nightly, and SwiftKey.

>>57891102
Where I live I've seen a raise in windows phones instead. Still not the majority, but I think they're in the 20%

t. not india