Apple passes Nokia to become world’s top smartphone vendor

Right?  When I don’t like the article because my guys (namely Google) isn’t prominently praised I call bad post and call the writer a dipshit.  You nailed it!

Rim invents the smartphone, Apple innovates it…its a big market…s’all I’m saying. You guys take this shit so seriously as if you make a difference. Easy…go out and enjoy the heat!

And how is that going against what I just said? And it’s a tech blog – if we didn’t take it seriously we wouldn’t be here!

Were you expecting me to go against what you said? Lol

Lol at RIM inventing the smartphone.

Ummm….. sooooo, innovation != invention?? What the fack have I been thinking all these years!

Rocktard, did you mean Apple “re-invented” the smartphone?! YES.

You clearly know nothing about the history of things. RIM did not invent the smartphone. LOL. I suggest you research and take note of the years.

Well actually the term Smartphone was first introduced by Ericsson. You know, the company that was part of actually creating mobile telephony from the start. Ericsson introduced the world’s first fully automatic mobile telephone system, MTA in 1956 here in Sweden.

Totally agree…competition in the end rocks for consumers. More and better products to chose from…let’s just hope the boys all adapt.

So everything has been invented? 2 things may provide the same function, but doing so in a different way is an invention. A type writer was an invention, though you could get the same result from hand writing.

Exactly. Any patent is an invention.

Impossible. Any time there’s a positive story about Apple anywhere on the internet, it’s biased and most likely invented by BGR. In fact, I heard BGR purchased 20.33 million iPhones last quarter just so they could write this 1-paragraph post and piss off a troll called Sefiroh. This conspiracy runs deep.

And they used the money Apple pays them to buy all those iPhones as well.

lmao. is that how it works? you voice an opinion that some douchebag doesn’t like and you are called a troll? dong is another word for dick right? so that would make you king di….you get the picture.

i have no allegiance to any phone or OS. but since i spoke against apple i must be a fandroid, right? stupidity runs deep in your veins, i see.

Stupidity is griping about an article you had no interest in reading.

If I had to make a guess, I’d say they’ll remain in top 3 for next 3 years at least. The gap is small at the moment, and Nokia hasn’t yet launched Windows Phone phones yet. Also, iPhone 4 from 3GS is big jump. iPhone 4 to 5, according to rumors, will not be. I think they’re going back to 2nd or 3rd place soon, but not leaving 3rd.

I would agree that I think the Top 3 will be fluid, but the only company I see surpassing them is Samsung; Nokia will take a long time to recover. 

Its also the best choice. You know what you’re buying quality wise and hardware wise. When there is a jailbreak released, it will work for all devices running the said firmware.

Android – choice might get you stuck with a device with shoddy build quality and a locked bootloader.

I know I love running ROMs with stock kernels. Its so much fun! You guys have to root just to remove crap and bloatware.

But if you’re going to do that, it makes more sense to compare ecosystem to ecosystem, as that’s really the war between Apple and Google. And don’t say that it’s not fair because Google doesn’t compete with Android in all the markets Apple does; if you’re going to say Android offers choice, that’s exactly what Apple does in the ecosystem: you can get a phone, a tablet, or a media player, that all run the same OS and apps. Ecosystems are important for developers.

Now if you’re going to compare the two iPhone models (4 and 3GS) to the barrage of Android phones as a whole, well, that’s not really fair either, unless you only compare Apple to a single OEM at a time; contrary to popular internet-fueled belief, Samsung, HTC, Motorolla, etc. are NOT on the same side. They are fierce competitors, despite being on “Team Android”. 

So I think it’s perfectly acceptable to compare Apple to a single OEM’s Android offerings, OR compare ecosystem to ecosystem (Apple vs. Google).

Respectfully, the problem with what you’re doing is that you’re taking the real stats and manipulating them to get the result you want; Apple is leading.  The truth is Apple is not leading and, just to make matters worse, Android is growing exponentially faster in every segment in which the two OS’s compete.

This type of flawed thinking is what we see everyday from the editors of this site.  There can be very little doubt Apple makes some very popular devices that people seemed to love but iOS is getting squashed by Android.  Android outsells iOS about 2-to-1 in smart phones and, despite staggering sale figures for iPhone 4, that number is growing, not falling.  Android is way behind iOS in terms of tablet sales — in fact, I believe there is no substantial market for tablets other than iPad — but even there the rate of growth is much, much faster for Android devices.  And oddly, the same is true for personal media players where iPod continues to see dramatic sales declines.

The bottom line is one OS is growing exponentially (Android) and the other (iOS) it growing at the same rate as the overall mobile market.  Don’t believe me?  Next time someone tells you ho great the sales of iOS device is, before you respond, look at the growth rate of the entire sector.  Is growth, while impressive, higher than the entire sector?

I’m not attempting to dilute the accomplishments of Apple in the space because it is a fantastically well managed business but know that the space is growing very rapidly.  Right now, the clear winner is Android, in fact, the rate of adoption might be unprecedented in modern business.

With respect, that’s not at all about what my post was about. I was merely pointing out the flaw in the logic of saying it’s perfectly acceptable to compare iOS to Android overall and limit it to phones.

It makes more sense to compare either Apple to a specific OEM or to compare all iOS devices to all Android devices, depending on what question you are answering. For the latter, you can bet total ecosystem matters to developers looking at a platform’s strength.

Get a life, ‘tard.