Verizon iPhone Needed: Apple loses market share to Android
By: Peter Chubb | March 6, 2010Filed under: Cell Phone Information, Cell Phones
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Just a few months back the Apple iPhone had been enjoying a healthy lead in the cell phone market, but now figures suggest that they are beginning to lose their market share to – Google Android. Although the iPhone is still the top selling phone, a constant barrage of new Android devices, such as the Nexus One and Droid, has hurt its lead.
We can take two things from this, the first is that Apple are still doing an amazing job in the market – as they only have one handset – and the other is that a Verizon Wireless version o f the iPhone is needed. The Inquirer reports that Apple took a huge blow at Mobile World Congress in February, as Google are to launch a host of new Android powered handsets in 2010.
They then ask the question – are iPhone sales in a free fall – one that is certainly hard to answer at this time. Android’s market share grew by 8.3 percent in February, taking them to an overall 15.2 percent share in the market. Apples still has a healthy 63.7% share in the cell phone market but – a drop is still a drop.
Do you think a Verizon iPhone will be enough to stem this drop in sales, or do you think the iPhone 4G is needed now?
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I always hoped a iPhone would come to Verizon .. I would be the first in line.
but now i think i would pick the Nexus One over the iphone
If i can get one before Apple sues HTC..
Tommy above said exactly what I had in mind.
Iphone RIP. We know have an open Gphone on a real network!
You mean a real network that I can't search maps and talk on at the same time? I tried going with the google phone. It sucks dude!
With iphone on AT&T I can get my maps and talk on the phone at the same time. I can browse the internet and talk on my phone at the same time.
Iphone is just plain a better phone and AT&T has the bandwidth to support it. Verizon may be available in podunkville but I don't plan on going there and even if I did I would only be able to talk on the phone.. Nothing else.
You obviously didn't try the Nexus One or else you'd realize it's superior in everyway. It does work on a network that has simultaneous voice and data. On top of that it also has simultaneous Email, Browser, Notepad, and Phone (with Google Voice) at the same time. (your little pretty phone doesn't do that)
Iphone is not plain better, slower processor, 1/4 the resolution on the screen, less memory, non-changeable battery, completely closed source hardware/OS/app store.
Iphone is like a Honda, Nexus One.like a Lexus.
I'd buy an iphone today if it was on verizon.
As far as I'm conceerned Apple brought this upon themselves with their arrogance. I had an iphone for a year before I had to switch back to verizon because I couldn't take the shoddy service anymore. I waited anxiously for the iphone to come to verizon. When the Droid was released finally there was a phone that could maybe hold me over until I could get an iphone. Now after using it for 2 weeks I can't imagine going back to an iphone. I pick up my wife's ipod touch and I am reminded of how much better the Droid is. The screen is so much crisper, the colors more vibrant. And then of course there is apples dictatorship over the app store.
How long do you really think Google Empire will keep this thing open? I mean come on, AT&T replaced search with Yahoo!. I'd like them to use Bing everything web related, and iTunes on it for getting music, movies, and books
The ultimate F U to the Google Empire's illusionary "free and open" OS.
Google is really good at taking advantage if the naive .
You have no idea about Android whatsoever.
Google offered Yahoo to release their own Android phone replacing all Google services almost a year ago.
Lenovo doesn't use any Google services at all.
Same here, living proof, buy iPhone tomorrow if it was no AT&T.
Jobs appeared suddenly so arrogant, but didn't we see similar movies so many times in the past yet?
iPhone sales in free fall?, it isn't gonna happened so stop dreaming.
So let see who eat crows this time next year.
I have used several google phones because of verizon and constantly switch back to iphone. Iphone works better, looks better and for the most part has coverage wherever i need to have it.
The iPhone experience is just plain better. The applications are better. I can do searching and things while talking on the phone. You cannot do that on Verizon. Verizon's network may be in more places but the bandwidth sucks compared to AT&T. LIke I said.. I have used the Nexus and other smart phones and always go back to the iPhone.
Hands down a better operating system.
“a Verizon Wireless version o f the iPhone is needed.”
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Funny, it seems Verizon doesn't recognize that need. They passed on the first go-round of the iPhone, and they seem quite happy to offer other devices.
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There's a reason: Verizon, more than any other carrier, is about controlling their customers' usage. Dunno if they've changed, but they worked for years to ensure that camera phones had to pay for every single shot transferred off the phone, for every ringtone, according to whatever VZ wanted you to pay.
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Especially with the data plan that AT&T is offering for the iPad, you buy capacity and you do more or less what you want with it. Dumb pipes, very consistent with the internet model. I don't think this was their business plan 3 years ago, but they're crying all the way to the bank with the revenues they're capturing with iPhones — it's hugely profitable even if a bit disruptive in terms of having to rebuild their network.
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VZ runs a more walled garden than Apple does, by an order of magnitude.
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Oh, PS: quoting the Inquirer saying something typically snarky with no hard facts knocks down the perceived quality of this post, too.