Chris Smith writes that Apple CEO Tim Cook, speaking during the WWDC 2014 opening keynote, took clear hits at his company's main rival, making fun of Google's Android several times. "Over 130 million customers who bought an iOS device in the past 12 months, were buying their first iOS device," Cook said. "Now, many of these customers were switchers from Android." "They had bought an Android phone... by mistake," Cook added, igniting the crowd in attendance, "and then sought a better experience, and a better life, and decided to check iPhone and iOS." Cook went on to say that nearly half of Apple's customers in China in the past six months came from Android.
Cook took another hit at Google for its fragmentation issues. "If you look at a broader group, over a third of [Android] customers, are running a version of Android from four years ago," Cook said. "That's like ancient history." Cook also addressed Android's vulnerability to malware. "Android dominates the mobile malware market," the exec said, because of its fragmentation. "No wonder experts are saying things like this," Cook said, quoting ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: "Android fragmentation is turning devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by kwerle on Thursday June 05 2014, @04:36AM
Apple has almost never been about capturing really large market share. Ipod might be the exception.
I wonder what Apple's loss rate is for existing customers.
(Score: 1) by sjwt on Thursday June 05 2014, @11:27AM
Of ppl i know IRL, 3 in 4 swear never to get another Iphone, they were all Iphone 4 cheep contract upgrades.. The rate of dropouts was almost non existent umount ppl I knew on 1 and 2, and about 1 in 4 on a Iphone 3..
For those looking to drop Apple after the current contract ran out, syncing issues with PCs and general user interface where the two biggest complaints. Basically at the end of the day, it was mostly ppl who were getting Iphones because their own phone carrier was recommending them, not because they had used them or even friends recommendations, it was mostly 'two for the price of one' contracts.
The rule is about the same across all the brands in the end, if its not what you are used to, or like you are going to have a bad time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 05 2014, @02:36PM
Did you type that on a phone?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday June 05 2014, @12:49PM
After breaking her first two iPhones, my daughter is now using a cheap Android. So you may be right.
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