<story><title>US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone</title><url>https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-smartphone-shipments-q2-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nordsieck</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m constantly amazed by how people spend so much of their income on Apple products&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know about other people, but I went iPhone specifically for the value&amp;#x2F;$. Got a used iPhone SE 2020 for $150 in late 2021, and expect to use it for 5+ years. I seriously doubt that there are any Androids out there that could get even close to that.&lt;p&gt;It really helps that Apple&amp;#x27;s CPU&amp;#x2F;SoC is substantially superior to what everyone else uses, so older iPhones tend to feel snappier. Between that and Apple&amp;#x27;s clearly superior OS support, I don&amp;#x27;t know why value shoppers who don&amp;#x27;t want to install their own firmware would go with Android.</text></item><item><author>zh3</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m constantly amazed by how people spend so much of their income on Apple products; it&amp;#x27;s almost like their lives are ruled by the status they feel an iPhone brings (and the consequential sacrificial purchasing).&lt;p&gt;It likely varies by area and average income, here it&amp;#x27;s almost an inverse correlation - the less-well off kids at school tend to have parents on iPhones and the comfortable parents are on whatever works for them.</text></item><item><author>lolinder</author><text>The link should really be to the original report [0].&lt;p&gt;This 55% is iPhone&amp;#x27;s share of phone shipments in Q2, not the number of &lt;i&gt;users&lt;/i&gt; of the respective phones at any given time. In other words, fewer people are buying smartphones than were before, but Apple saw less of a hit to their numbers than everyone else did.&lt;p&gt;Contrary to existing comments here, this stat doesn&amp;#x27;t appear to indicate that people are &lt;i&gt;switching&lt;/i&gt; from Android to iPhone. It looks like Android users are more likely to avoid upgrading their phone in an uncertain economy, while Apple users are more likely to upgrade regardless.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.counterpointresearch.com&amp;#x2F;us-smartphone-shipments-q2-2023&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.counterpointresearch.com&amp;#x2F;us-smartphone-shipments...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnFen</author><text>&amp;gt; expect to use it for 5+ years. I seriously doubt that there are any Androids out there that could get even close to that.&lt;p&gt;Every Android phone I&amp;#x27;ve had has lasted that long or longer. If I got less than 5 years out of any smartphone, I&amp;#x27;d consider it faulty.</text></comment>
<story><title>US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone</title><url>https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-smartphone-shipments-q2-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nordsieck</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m constantly amazed by how people spend so much of their income on Apple products&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know about other people, but I went iPhone specifically for the value&amp;#x2F;$. Got a used iPhone SE 2020 for $150 in late 2021, and expect to use it for 5+ years. I seriously doubt that there are any Androids out there that could get even close to that.&lt;p&gt;It really helps that Apple&amp;#x27;s CPU&amp;#x2F;SoC is substantially superior to what everyone else uses, so older iPhones tend to feel snappier. Between that and Apple&amp;#x27;s clearly superior OS support, I don&amp;#x27;t know why value shoppers who don&amp;#x27;t want to install their own firmware would go with Android.</text></item><item><author>zh3</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m constantly amazed by how people spend so much of their income on Apple products; it&amp;#x27;s almost like their lives are ruled by the status they feel an iPhone brings (and the consequential sacrificial purchasing).&lt;p&gt;It likely varies by area and average income, here it&amp;#x27;s almost an inverse correlation - the less-well off kids at school tend to have parents on iPhones and the comfortable parents are on whatever works for them.</text></item><item><author>lolinder</author><text>The link should really be to the original report [0].&lt;p&gt;This 55% is iPhone&amp;#x27;s share of phone shipments in Q2, not the number of &lt;i&gt;users&lt;/i&gt; of the respective phones at any given time. In other words, fewer people are buying smartphones than were before, but Apple saw less of a hit to their numbers than everyone else did.&lt;p&gt;Contrary to existing comments here, this stat doesn&amp;#x27;t appear to indicate that people are &lt;i&gt;switching&lt;/i&gt; from Android to iPhone. It looks like Android users are more likely to avoid upgrading their phone in an uncertain economy, while Apple users are more likely to upgrade regardless.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.counterpointresearch.com&amp;#x2F;us-smartphone-shipments-q2-2023&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.counterpointresearch.com&amp;#x2F;us-smartphone-shipments...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbm-vic-20</author><text>I might be one of those value shoppers; I usually buy the &amp;quot;Pixel .a&amp;quot; version of the oldest available generation when it&amp;#x27;s time for replacement (I&amp;#x27;m currently on a Pixel 4a).  I like it.  I used to have an iPhone, but I prefer the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; of Andriod-on-Pixel, but I don&amp;#x27;t know how to describe it. Less heavy-handed maybe? More minimalistic?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t need the fastest, most powerful SoC. I don&amp;#x27;t need the best, super fast display. The battery life on my 4a is enough for my needs.  People get way too religious about this.</text></comment>