[OT] mobile rising

[Jerry]

On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 14:42:41 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> There is some truth to this, but if you cannot compete with a 
> free product- cough, cough, Windows Mobile- I don't know what 
> to tell you.  In other words, google cannot afford to spend a 
> fraction of the money on Android that Apple spends on iOS, 
> because google makes so little money off of Android by 
> comparison, so there are disadvantages to their free model too.
>  It is one of the reasons why they have now plunged into the 
> high-end smartphone market with their recent Pixel line.
>
> I think the lack of a viable business model for Android 
> vendors, other than Samsung, is a huge problem for the 
> platform, as Apple hoovers up two-thirds of the profit with 
> only a tenth of the phones sold:
>
> https://www.counterpointresearch.com/80-of-global-handset-profits-comes-from-premium-segment/
>
> As I said earlier, the mobile OS story is not over yet, there 
> are more changes to come.

People that buy Android I find tend to keep their phones for 
longer. People with Apple phones keep buying new ones. Part of 
that is how many phone Apple claims are on the latest version. So 
developers only target the latest one, then their apps don't run 
on old phone and it encourages people to "upgrade". Android apps 
tend to support more versions as well, it's a more diverse OS. 
I've even seen websites that just straight up drop support for 
old versions of Safari. Can't get the latest version of Safari 
cause you can't update your phone. Then you go to firefox just to 
find out you can't install it cause it's no longer support for 
that iOS version. Can't even download an old version of firefox 
that did support it cause it's Apple's store and they don't 
support that.