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651 points openchampagne | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.39s | source
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canucker2016 ◴[04 Feb 25 22:22 UTC] No.42939824[source]▶
I think some demographic info can be useful in judging the potential uptake.

Apple iPhone ownership amongst USA teens:

2024: 87%

2019: 83%

2014: 67%

https://www.iclarified.com/95177/87-of-us-teens-own-iphones-...

https://www.pipersandler.com/news/piper-jaffray-completes-se...

https://www.pipersandler.com/news/different-new-cool-accordi...

Smartphone marketshare for iPhone in various countries:

65%: Norway

59%: Sweden/Japan/Canada/USA

49%: UK

30-39%: Germany/Portugal/Italy

other countries are lower from my random sampling of developed countries (South Korea is dominated by Samsung).

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/norway

Change last part of url to get info for another country

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green_leaves ◴[05 Feb 25 13:09 UTC] No.42947982[source]▶
Norway data from statcounter doesn't seem reliable. In just 4 months, July->October 2024, there's a 14% upswing in iphone total marketshare. Which implies that at least 14% of users bought a new phone, assuming (wrongly) that everybody would have changed from Android to iPhone (ignoring also deceases and teenagers getting their first phone). And the period doesn't even include Black Friday or Christmas. And barely the iPhone 16 launch that happened in September 20, 2024.
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1. ZeroTalent ◴[09 Feb 25 00:24 UTC] No.42987396[source]▶
Samsung shoot itself in the foot as a phone manufacturer in the last 2 years. Battery life, forced apps, ads, and a pretty bad implementation of the Android OS while trying to sell the phone at the same price as the iPhone.

The S24 ultra still has an ancient 3x cam that has been left unchanged since the S21 ultra.

It's hard to compete when Apple has the Macbook + iPhone synergy/ecosystem advantage.