Ondrej Holzman Over Apple sold 48 million iPhones in the fourth fiscal quarter this year and almost a third of people bought an iPhone as a replacement for a smartphone with the Android operating system.
"It's a huge number and we're proud of it," commented Tim Cook, who began measuring Apple's transition from the competition three years ago. Thirty percent of those who switched from Android to iPhone is the highest ever during that time.
How Apple measures this data is not clear, but it estimates that the number of users who will want to switch from Android to iPhone has not yet been exhausted, and there are still many who have not yet switched. Therefore, he expects further record sales in the first quarter of next year.
In addition, it is said that only a third of iPhone users have switched to the iPhone 6, 6S, 6 Plus or 6S Plus, so there are still two thirds of potential people interested in the latest Apple phones, and that is about tens to hundreds of thousands of people.
Apple is also responsible for a significant share of so-called "switchers" who left Android in favor of iOS thanks to its efforts to ease the entire transition. Last year, he published a guide for Android users on his website, and even this year launched its own Android app "Move to iOS". Its trade-in program also helps sales.
I don't know - most people probably won't migrate straight from a classic phone to an iPhone.
And if 1/3 is from Android, then 2/3 are divided from Windows + BlackBerry?
2/3 probably already had an iPhone, didn't they?
I would like to teach you mathematics.
1+1=3, no! 1+2=2, no!.
These are two different equations. One tells about the share of new buyers for the last quarter, and the other breaks down the set of current iPhone users. Stupid.
That's different. A third of the 48 million people had Android before.
And two-thirds of people who already had an iPhone don't have an iPhone 6/6S yet.
30% of 48 million iPhones is about 15 million, which is just a statistical error out of 1,3 billion active Android devices :D so apple is celebrating a great success while google didn't even notice it :D
And those 1,3 billion Androids are definitely just TOP smartphones... Oh, wait! Those are mostly unprofitable budget mobile phones... And which users have switched to the iPhone?