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by mattnumbe 3512 days ago
3rd party citation after searching "dominant OS Japan" in google https://www.statista.com/statistics/260415/market-share-held... Android 64.6%
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diziet 3512 days ago
This data looks bad and not in line with other reports:

https://deviceatlas.com/blog/android-vs-ios-market-share-201... http://techjapan.tumblr.com/post/42142826707/why-iphone-mark...

According to our internal data which tallies tens of millions of app store installs on Android vs iOS, iOS both gets more downloads & revenue than Android in Japan.

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mattnumbe 3512 days ago
I dont know why the data looks that wonky, but the graph that business insider uses (taken from Kantar) shows a similar pattern. http://www.businessinsider.my/apple-v-android-market-share-b...
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Oletros 3512 days ago
You have posted a link about web browsing and another from 2012.

Do you gave a reliable report about marketshare because all reports tells that iOS have way less market share than Android in Japan

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ralfd 3512 days ago
Looking at the pattern: if the statistic would end in autumn instead of summer, then iOS could also have come up on top.
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dismantlethesun 3512 days ago
How can market share dramatically swing between 30% and 60% like it's doing in this chart?

Is this bad data? Is the market expanding & contracting so greatly that existing users are a minority of future marketshare?

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CountSessine 3512 days ago
Most android phone owners don't use it as a smartphone - it's a cheap feature phone they buy at the phone store and they just use it to make calls on. The number of true 'smartphone users' in the android world who are using them to browse the web and download apps is comparable to or less than the number of iOS device owners.
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Oletros 3511 days ago
> Most android phone owners don't use it as a smartphone - it's a cheap feature phone they buy at the phone store and they just use it to make calls on.

Do you have a source for that?

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CountSessine 3511 days ago
Yes - see above.
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Oletros 3511 days ago
Where?
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diziet 3512 days ago
The data is bad.

I have a lot of insight into the apps side of things, and Android is somewhat smaller than iOS in Japan, both on revenue and downloads.

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tho9Ohx1eo 3512 days ago
> How can market share dramatically swing

You pay for results?

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