What wins the Android?

After selling 37 million iPhone smartphones in the last quarter, it seems that Apple is nothing to stop. They not only beat personal bests, and more - Apple has become the largest smartphone maker in the world. But the publication of The Wall Street Journal has found weaknesses in the plans for Apple to distribute their products.


Smartphones us apart, like hot cakes in countries where the iPhone is sold with the tariff plan. For example, in the U.S. or the UK. Based on the report, in Greece, where the iPhone is not bound to the operator of all smartphones sold in the share Apple had only 5%. In Portugal, a little more - 9%. As already mentioned the U.S. and the UK, this percentage rises to 25% or more. The difference is noticeable, is not it?.


The most important reason for this gap is the price of the device, which is very, very high. Happy Americans, despite the harassment of operators on the mobile Internet, can afford to buy an iPhone for just $ 200. At the same time the inhabitants of those countries in which operators use conventional retail distribution model, to buy the device at a higher price.


Retail price starts iPhone with a mark of 649 dollars and increased by 100 for a model with more memory. Even the iPhone 4 is still unavailable to many. Its price is $ 549 for 8 GB model, and not the new iPhone 3GS is not much cheaper.


Now let's look at the Android- device. High-end devices are the same, and sometimes more than the iPhone. But there are countless more affordable smartphones and tablets on the ... Moreover, no special operator tariffs and other ... Given the global trend in the economy, these devices have become increasingly popular among buyers, and this explains the fact that Android is currently captured nearly half of the smartphone market.


Although, despite this, Apple does not suffer from Android. Probably kupertinovtsam come out to new markets in order to continue the growth of the mobile unit. And most likely they will need for this new, less expensive smart phone, which in the nearest future the company has no. Or perhaps something we do not yet know?.


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