Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by shinratdr 2806 days ago
Sorry, where does Apple have a majority marketshare in Europe?
2 comments

Probably in Ireland. It seems to me that (aka: I have no data) the vast majority of Irish use an iPhone.

The carriers have iPhones at roughly the same price as a half-decent Android phone, and those that can't afford to do that, get them second hand (usually older models..).

I have an Android, and I know several techie friends with Androids, but "normal people" have iPhones.

Really - It's almost a surprise to see someone with an Android here..

https://deviceatlas.com/blog/5-facts-about-mobile-market-in-...

That said the rest of Europe is definitely android

Those stats are two years old.

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/ireland

Current stats show Android in the lead. As it is almost everywhere.

So 54% iPhones, 43% Android. Hardly a vast majority.
Those stats are two years old. Everything I can find says Ireland is majority Android.
It seems like that here in New York too, but I believe it s because iPhones are the only instantly recognizable phone. If I look I can tell iPhone or other very easily.
Maybe, but I do recognize "not an iPhone" too - I'm a techie who loves his Android phone ;)

As I said, I've no data.. I'd love to see some though!

Irish as well and have the opposite experience. Everyone from teenagers using cheap android phones up to to a lot of people i know using the latest Samsung. A lot of companies that would have previously used Blackberry but moved to to Iphones are now starting to move to android.
If you measure by App store revenue[1], the picture looks a bit different.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-n...

If I measure by market cap it also looks different, but that's an equally irrelevant measurement in this case.

The issue here is where the anti-trust line is drawn. Why people in the tech side never seem to understand this is beyond me, but the line is clear.

It has everything to do with your marketshare. Google could make zero dollars off Android, if they still own & control it and it reaches a vast majority marketshare, as it has in Europe, then they are pressured to open it up and increase competition within the platform.

Whining about Apple and whataboutism is ridiculous. They are not the majority of devices in any major region (NA/Europe/Asia/Worldwide). Some isolated countries are majority iOS, but they all exist within the EU and the EU is 75% Android.