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by dkrich 3329 days ago
Well, Apple sells about 200 million iPhones a year, so when you add in iPad sales to that, unless you are outside the US, you should consider yourself in a very select minority.
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200 million worldwide.

The iPhone currently has around 15% of the smartphone market:

https://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/27/iphone-15-percent-marke...

Last time I checked, 85% was most definitely not a minority.

Hold up. Is it your belief that Apple's smartphone market share in 1Q16 is equal to the number of people who have iPhones or Apple products?
If you have a different figure, you should share it
This is your source to defend. 85% of smartphones purchased in 1Q16 were non-Apple. You used this figure to claim that 85% of all people don't own iPhones.

You're most likely right, but I don't know what kind of honest conversation can be had with someone who is so willing to pull one over on the rest of us to force his point. You derived your own figure from an unrelated figure and implied a connection.

If you had answered "Oh haha yup, my bad" that'd be excusable. But it looks like you're running with it and / or throwing the burden on me for some reason.

You've used a lot of words to say close to nothing at all.

> You're most likely right

What exactly are you complaining about then?

You don't think being intentionally misleading should be an issue to people who might otherwise agree with your base claim? There's something seriously wrong with your compass here.

> You've used a lot of words to say close to nothing at all.

Alright man, that says a lot about how willing you are to change.

You're right, I stand corrected. Nobody uses Apple products. Let's move on.
Are those the only two possible scenarios? Either everyone has an Apple device within 5ft of them at all times or nobody uses Apple products?
You're looking for an honest conversation now? That's bold.