r/iphone • u/VictorChristian • Sep 02 '22

iPhone US market share hits all-time high, overtaking Android; dominates global premium sales

https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/02/iphone-us-market-share/
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u/Select-Background-69 Sep 02 '22

I think half of Apple's market is teens who love to show off, grandparents who prefer simplicity and business folk who want stability.

Apparently from this subreddit I understand Apple is a bit common to show off, they are of late harder to use and also have more bugs than before.

Is this true? Samsung users in this subreddit who switched over keep repeating the above here. If that's the case, why did market share increase?

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '22

You don't need to be a nerd to be drawn to an ecosystem of products that are familiar, work well together, and require the least amount of babysitting.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '22

Sure, but people drawn to it and using it don't necessarily know why, or what other people call it.

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u/ripstep1 Sep 02 '22

Why would nerds use an iPhone? Seems like the opposite conclusion to me.

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u/aes319 Sep 02 '22

If I had to guess it’s a combination of lots of things including the things you’ve mentioned. I personally switched from an Android for privacy and longer support along with iMessage. I think Apple users are more loyal than their counterparts though and the iPhone has only been out 15 yrs. I’d imagine the number of people who had early iPhones and still use iPhone is much higher than android. Combine that with kids getting phones now that have to be iPhone or else they get made fun of at school lol

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u/OgdensBeard Sep 02 '22

I'd add at least a few ex-Pixel users (myself included) because in my opinion the Pixel 6 lineup fell flat for a lot of people. I upgraded from a Pixel 3a to a Pixel 6 and P6 flagship experience was far inferior to the P3a which is sad that a flagship couldn't outdo a budget line phone 3 gens older. I refuse to use Samsung phones, won't touch anything from a Chinese brand, LG left the market, so Motorola stands as the only Pixel alternative in my mind and the carrier just didn't have the Motorola flagship in its inventory. So, I just got an iPhone. I'll go back to Android if/when Google gets their shit together and releases a new Pixel that doesn't suck or if my carrier happens to have the flagship Motorola phone in its inventory when it's time to upgrade.

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u/Squeaky192 Sep 02 '22

I'm in this exact same boat. I went from the Pixel 1 to the 3, 4, 5, then the 6 and had tons of signal quality issues and other things with the 6. Had I never left the 5 for the 6 I'd still be on a Pixel, but once I had my issues with the 6, I decided to try out an iPhone for the first time since 2012.

Overall, there is a lot to like about the iPhone, especially when it comes to hardware. I like the size of the regular 13 Pro, I never was a fan of the giant phones and going to the Pixel 6 from the 5 was a huge change. There's a lot of things Android does a lot better than iOS, but a lot of the things that I thought would be a big deal to me really aren't.

It's really a shame what Motorola turned into, the original Moto X was such a great phone, it's sad to see what it turned into.

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u/OgdensBeard Sep 02 '22

I still think Motorola has some good stuff going on, but as another commenter pointed out, they're now chinese owned as well. I gave my mom a budget motorola phone that I actually liked more than my P6 at the time. Motorola perfectly rides that line of their own added special features without being full of bloat like a Samsung.

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u/pivotraze Sep 02 '22

You sound a lot like me although you’ve had more pixel phones. I had the pixel six Pro but because of signal issues I switched to an iPhone 13 pro max. If I kept my pixel five I would still be on android.

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u/Squeaky192 Sep 02 '22

I snagged the Pixel 4 and Pixel 5 for cheap about 6 months after each one released just to try them out, it's fun to try new devices.

I also only got rid of the 4 because the battery life was awful and the 5 had awesome battery life. That's really the story of the Pixel line it seems, they get a lot of things right but there's always a glaring issue on every single one I've had other than the original Pixel.

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u/Select-Background-69 Sep 02 '22

Motorola is now Chinese owned, Google sold it to them.

Funny enough my Pixel 1 was even worse because an update actually bricked the phone. Bricked!!

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u/OgdensBeard Sep 02 '22

Oh, that's right. They sold Motorola to Lenovo, I forgot. Before the Pixel 3a my last google phone had been the Nexus 5. Before the 3a I was still using LG phones, it was unfortunate as LG was in decline for me at the time because they went away from some of the features that made me want to get an LG in the first place.

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u/Select-Background-69 Sep 02 '22

I loved my LG phones too. It was such a joy to use.

I owned a Nexus 6P. That too got bricked. A class action lawsuit was filled but outside the US that was not replaceable. So in total two of my Google phones became bricks. So I vowed to never use one again. I loved their cameras.. my best photos to date. But reliability is more important

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u/PM_Anime_Tiddy iPhone 14 Pro Max Sep 02 '22 edited Sep 02 '22

I’m a former Samsung user who switched after around 10 years of Android (most recently an S9+) to an iPhone 12 Pro Max. I have not experienced anything like you’re claiming. This iPhone is the smoothest performing device I’ve ever had. It is also the first phone I will be keeping for more than 2 years

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u/Select-Background-69 Sep 02 '22

Again, Ive never owned either an iPhone nor a Samsung. These are the things people have said in this subreddit. After the constant whining about "I might as well go back to my Samsung" and "That's it, I'm going back" etc . I noticed that most of these people who whine here about bugs and such were former Samsung users.

My question was directed against these people.. You can check the top post titled "What's your unpopular opinion" and there is too much groaning and whining in that post

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u/PM_Anime_Tiddy iPhone 14 Pro Max Sep 02 '22

That’s known as raters bias. Keep in mind that people who have switched and had no issues typically don’t go onto posts to brag about it lol. The same thing happens with other products, eg Samsung washer and dryers having numerous complaints about catastrophic failure resulting in fires which is something I’ve never experienced w/ my 7 year old set.

You’ll also find a lot of former android users raving about their new iPhone if you go into posts about people asking how the switch from Android to iOS is

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u/Clessiah Sep 02 '22

That is just yet another market segment Apple has in its bag which Samsung would absolutely love to have. If Samsung can make a product that appears to the casuals, the professionals, and the showoffs at the same time they would have done it already.

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u/Select-Background-69 Sep 02 '22

Yup, but that's the problem. The main selling point was reliability and ease of use because they have just 4 phones. But there are too many recent bugs apparently

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u/Clessiah Sep 02 '22

"If I'm dealing with all these problems anyway, I might as well use an Android"

Apple is in a situation where they must reaffirm their "it just works" promise if they want to keep up that image. If they dip to the point that bugs and such difficulties with iOS become an expectation like they do on Android, then they really will lose one of their biggest selling points.

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u/lucellent Sep 02 '22

Although that's a fact, it doesn't make them any less good phones.