<story><title>Platform wars: the final score</title><url>http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/7/25/platform-wars-final-score</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaptSpify</author><text>I kind of agree. I have no stats for this, but my impression is that neither Android nor iPhone users are really happy with their devices, they just tolerate them. That sounds like a ripe market for a disruptor.</text></item><item><author>Illniyar</author><text>So he predicts the amount of smartphones to double from 2.5b to 5b, implying that the majority of it will be android phones, but the &amp;quot;Platform wars&amp;quot; are over?&lt;p&gt;Nothing is over, even the &amp;quot;browser war&amp;quot; is now back on in full force, I suspect a new operating system (or perhaps windows 10? who knows) will emerge that will challenge both iOS and Android. 
Why? because something like this always does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bendiksolheim</author><text>I think that impression might be quite subjective – my impression is the exact opposite. I don&amp;#x27;t have any numbers either, but most people I know, both Android users and iOS users, are quite happy with their devices. They do of course have minor issues, but that will almost always be the case with something targeting such a broad audience.&lt;p&gt;I am not sure how I could be more happy with my device. Right now it mostly does what I want it to do, the battery lasts a couple of days, and it rarely bugs out.&lt;p&gt;edited: changed &amp;quot;really&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;more&amp;quot; in the second paragraph.</text></comment>
<story><title>Platform wars: the final score</title><url>http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/7/25/platform-wars-final-score</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaptSpify</author><text>I kind of agree. I have no stats for this, but my impression is that neither Android nor iPhone users are really happy with their devices, they just tolerate them. That sounds like a ripe market for a disruptor.</text></item><item><author>Illniyar</author><text>So he predicts the amount of smartphones to double from 2.5b to 5b, implying that the majority of it will be android phones, but the &amp;quot;Platform wars&amp;quot; are over?&lt;p&gt;Nothing is over, even the &amp;quot;browser war&amp;quot; is now back on in full force, I suspect a new operating system (or perhaps windows 10? who knows) will emerge that will challenge both iOS and Android. 
Why? because something like this always does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xiol</author><text>Happy with my Android phone.&lt;p&gt;Have an iPhone for work and it&amp;#x27;s terrible. I honestly don&amp;#x27;t know why they&amp;#x27;re so popular. The UI&amp;#x2F;UX is atrocious.</text></comment>