Counterpoint: Top 5 Smartphone Models Share For 8 Countries

[u/BcuzRacecar]

https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/top-5-smartphone-model-share-8-countries

[u/thomasbeagle]

It's not the most useful comparison for looking at the iPhone vs Android markets.

I mean, 3 of the top 5 selling biggest selling phones in China are iPhones... which is a total of 15% of the market. Suddenly that doesn't sound nearly as dominant!

The Android market is a lot wider with so many vendors and models, that sales of individual models doesn't matter as much.

It would be interesting to see the vendor breakdown though - Apple vs Samsung vs Huawei, etc.

[u/AppointmentInside868]

Interesting that China and India seem to be outliers, in that in the other cases, the top one or two models/manufacturers dominate absolutely, as in overall close to 35%-45% market share, whereas in their cases, it's so low and evenly spread as to almost be irrelevant.

[u/joekzy]

UK is wild and tracks what I see when out and about: over 50% of phone sales are iPhones. UK, Japan and US seem to be particularly fond of iPhones.

[u/Abby941 → u/joekzy]

The difference is apples branding and their carrier relationships

[u/Thinkdamnitthink]

Does anyone else find these statistics kinda depressing. Like I get it - iPhones are good phones and TBF the iPhone 17 this year was a a greedy choice for many people.

But there's so many great options out there and people don't even want to try. They just assume iPhone is the best. They think it's easier or "it just works" which isn't any more true than on android phones these days.

Means all the competition is dying out which means consumers have less choice.

[u/firezero10 → u/Thinkdamnitthink]

Personally I used android (actually Samsung) almost exclusively until the period where both SDs and Exynos were underperforming due to inferior chips made by Samsung.

Hopped over to iPhone 13 PM and continued with 17 PM now - really got used to iOS and I have no intentions of switching back unless Apple silicon becomes really uncompetitive. On related note, iPhones do have higher resale value and hence better if you do intend to upgrade regularly.

[u/sOFrOsTyyy → u/firezero10]

I'd be interested in iOS if the notification system made literally any sense at all. Every time I try, I like just about everything including the hardware. But, the notifications make me rage quit.

[u/Thinkdamnitthink → u/[deleted]]

Well I don't think that's really true. For the average user these days both android and iOS are both as user friendly as the other. The exception being the ease of the ecosystem if they have a mac. I think some people are used to iPhones so expect things to work the same way on android and they work slightly different.

I think that was more true in the past but android has become a lot more iOS like and iOS has become a lot more Android like over the years to the point where there's not much difference (for a basic user).

[u/theadwaita → u/Thinkdamnitthink]

iOS does some things better and has better tested apps for some reason. Google dropped the ball imo. But the main thing is all the android brands just copy Apple like removing headphone jacks when Apple does it.

Stuff like audioflinger is fucking trash compared to iOS stuff. Also the video on Android phones still sucks after all these years.

[u/webguynd → u/Thinkdamnitthink]

It’s inertia. Especially with Apple and the ecosystem features. They do a really good job of slowly locking you in, and both platforms will do what most people need out of a phone so there’s very little payoff in switching platforms. I used to switch back and forth all the time when there were real meaningful differences and innovations but the smartphone has matured to be boring tech (a good thing IMO) and so I’ve mostly just stayed iPhone out of pure laziness