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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-18/apple-s-new-iphones-seen-fueling-switch-from-android.html

RBC Capital Markets polled 6,000 consumers and found that “an impressive 26 percent of respondents who intend to purchase an iPhone are new” to Apple’s ecosystem, with the majority coming from Android, Amit Daryanani, an analyst at RBC, wrote in a note to investors.

Samsung’s global market share slid to 25 percent in the second quarter from 32 percent a year earlier; the Suwon, South Korea-based company reported sales and profit in July that missed analysts’ estimates.

“This is going to be a nightmare for Samsung,” Tim Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies Inc., said of the larger-screen iPhones.

Note that this news just pertains to Android users in the US, and those that usually spring for the Flagship devices (i.e on-contract purchases at $199 or less)

These are users who have enough disposable income and are less inclined to piracy.


Just chipping this in before anyone who uses a N21k Tecno comes up to abuse switchers because they won't be able to download cracked Android 'HD Games' from dodgy Chinese sites on their iPhones

http://bgr.com/2014/09/18/iphone-6-vs-android-users/

With countless devices available from dozens of different vendors, Android has taken a significant lead in the international smartphone market. Last week, Apple made its biggest move yet to start converting Android users back to iOS with the unveiling of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus, and based on the latest data, it looks like the company’s gamble paid off.

Bloomberg reports that Android phone trade-ins have increased exponentially since Apple’s press event, signaling that many Android users were just waiting for Apple to introduce an iPhone with a larger display.

“I had talked to friends about my loyalty to Samsung and, before that, I was a BlackBerry loyalist,” California lawyer Sharyn Funamura told Bloomberg in regards to her preordering the iPhone 6. When Apple “finally addressed a lot of the reasons why I hadn’t bought an iPhone yet, then I just said, ‘OK, I bought your phone.’”

One of the top online electronics resellers, Gazelle, said that its Samsung phone trade-ins tripled last week. Gazelle also polled Android users and discovered that a third of them were planning to upgrade to the iPhone 6. 39% of them say the screen is the driving force behind their decision to desert Android.

“We’re seeing a higher propensity to switch,” Gazelle CEO Chris Sullivan said. “The combination of the screen size and the functionality” indicates that “this is going to be a strong and compelling product for Android users to switch,” he said.

At this rate, the only thing that might slow Apple down is how quickly they restock supply when the initial batch of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus shipments sell out.

Bloomberg link

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-18/apple-s-new-iphones-seen-fueling-switch-from-android.html

mickyarams: I don't know what planet you are living, but every tech review I have seen online since the smartphone battle has always put an Android phone as number one.

You mean like the Anandtech benchmarks?

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or the way Anandtech concluded their review by saying...

The A7 SoC is seriously impressive. Apple calls it a desktop-class SoC, but I'd rather refer to it as something capable of competing with the best Intel has to offer in this market. In many cases the A7's dual cores were competitive with Intel's recently announced Bay Trail SoC. Web browsing is ultimately where I noticed the A7's performance the most. As long as I was on a good internet connection, web pages just appeared after resolving DNS. The A7's GPU performance is also insanely good - more than enough for anything you could possibly throw at the iPhone 5s today, and fast enough to help keep this device feeling quick for a while.

This is what good reviewers like Anand Shimpi note. While Samsung is wowing sheep with useless gimmicks like "hey look, you can scroll this page with your eyes!", Apple is innovating on a silicon level point of view. Their custom processors are seriously impressive, beating Samsung's Exynos line that they saddle us with in Africa. GPU performance is also leading the park here.

Considering the fact that 3D games are some of the most demanding apps that users throw on their phones, and the fact that the iPhones have very power SGX GPUs, iphone users will see more expressions of raw power than the average Android Flagship.

Add iOS 8's 'Metal' Graphics API and you'll see iOS users getting better graphics in game than anyone using a Samsung device, For example. Gameloft just updated Asphalt 8 for Metal API use, and they tout visual improvements and framerate improvements. If you want the best looking version of Asphalt 8, you'll need to get an iPhone.

The only Android phone this year that has a chance of matching the iPhone 6 in raw power is the Galaxy Note 4.

cuteboy2: This is FALSE!!!! Have you read the New Automative Policy?
Go and read the statement by the PRO of Tin Can Port Command of Nigerian Customs Services embedded in the article in your original post. I extract it for you below in case you don't have the patience to read your entire post.



It is sad that people will copy and post news clips from online media, and yet either are too lazy to read what they have posted, or maliciously twist it to fit their ill-conceived intent. This policy and its implementation has been severally discussed in many posts on NL, and people have been sufficiently educated. Don't start this falsehood all over again.

So your entire point is this policy does not apply to Tokunbo vehicles right now, but will apply in 4 months time?

Mintayo: This is what some catholics donzlt know,oritsejafor is doing a good work by stopping the deceitful activities of islam which is to kill and islamize Nigeria.
I pray God help us.

Can you mention any attack that Oritsejafor has 'stopped'? Any proof at all that his words have had any effect on Boko Haram activities?

Mintayo: oritsejafor is doing a good work by [b]stopping the deceitful activities of islam [/b]which is to kill and islamize Nigeria.

This is actually Oritsejafor's terrible legacy: helping the propagation of this religious intolerance you're so proud to display. Not all muslims kill or forcibly islamize others. The majority do not do these things. if all the 80+ million muslims in Nigeria were murderous fiends, you would not be alive today.

In 2010, Android fanboys insisted they would buy Android phones because Android = Choice and Choice was "good for the consumer"

In 2014, Android fanboys are still happy with choice...as long as you choose only Android

As with most of these kind of write-up, this is childish analysis.

Not only have the iPhone flagships held the performance edge over many Android flagships in the first few years, it also tries to insinuate that Apple described any of these so called 'features' mentioned here as 'magical'

Here's the key difference I see here

1. Android fanboys obsess over specs by looking at paper numbers. iPhones deliver the performance advantages with more efficient chipsets. Which is why the 1.2Ghz iPhone 5S trounced every single Android phone of 2013, including those sporting 1.9Ghz Snapdragon 800 chipsets.

2. There's a lot of talk about "technology seen since 2012" when referring to NFC. But that's been a largely useless radio for most Android users. Apple's never claimed the inclusion of NFC in the iPhone 6 was 'magical'. The user experience is what Apple says is magical. In one fell swoop, Apple's rolling out a service with the buy-in of every major bank in America and over 200,000 businesses. And in all cases, Apple Pay is MUCH simpler and faster in execution that Google Wallet.

naturally, the article fails to mention the ways android is playing catch up. For example, The smoothness iOS users have taken for granted for years, Google's still trying to address this. OEMs have had to tackle this by loading up on RAM but Google is still trying to handle this in code. We had Project Butter, then the lower memory requirement of Kitkat, and now a comprehensive rewrite/reskin with the upcoming Android L

You also see significant efforts being made to ensure OEMs can provide updates for customers. The vast majority of Tecno users in Nigeria will NEVER be able to use Android Wear smartwatches because they require Android 4.3. Most are stuck on 4.1 or 4.2. HTC's One X and One X+ from 2012 for example will not receive Android 4.3. Not only is Google playing catch up here, updates tend to trickle out very slowly to the OEMs.
in contrast, every iOS owner since 2011 (4S and above) is able to upgrade to iOS8, irrespective of carrier.

Other areas are numerous. Google still remain behind in closing the app gap among the hot new apps, GPU performance on most Android flagships lag behind, Camera performance on most Android flagships are an inferior experience, fingerprint reader tech and ease of use is miles behind. Security wise, Android is miles behind. play Store usually has a much bigger malware problem than the App Store and the slow update rollout means some vulnerabilities take ages to be patched out in most phones.

Both sides have their pros and cons. Both have unmissable features. So i did the best thing and got a Galaxy S5 and an iPhone 5S. Best of both worlds

cococandy: While I'm not a fan of Ayo and his showy type of CAN leadership,if he says he rented the jet out and it can be confirmed that it was actually rented out,wouldn't it make sense to hold the actual people in possession of the jet at the time it was impounded so that they speak up on who they are working for.
Rather than assume that because he owns it,he must know what the renters did with it while they were renting it?

This is a very naive point of view.

Oritsejafor is a Religious minister. There MUST be clauses to whatever purpose his Jet can be used for. Just like a devout Muslim will always advice his stockbroker not to invest his funds in alcohol or pork farms, so must a Christian Minister insist that rentals for activities that aren't above board be discouraged.

Unless you're telling me that the Church jet can be rented out to PlayBoy magazine to have mid-air orgies

Juvante: I do not like Pastor Ayo,based on his inability to call a spade a spade in Delta State,and turns a blind eye to the looting, but on national issues, he is spot on!
He is hated because he looks at Northern leaders in the eye and tell them to call their youths and Islamic adherents to order! simple as that! As for his dress code, he has always dressed that way since I was a little kid in Warri,so stop crapping about what you do not know.

How many times did he call the militants in Warri to order? How many times has he called the corrupt to order? Is corruption not a national issue again?

I'm not sure what your point is. the Bishops say he's hobnobbing too much with political figures, thereby compromising the neutrality CAN is supposed to stand for. You agree he fraternises too much with the corrupt crooks. So what is the difference?

You can condemn violence without sounding like a bigot. he fails at that. All I hear when he talks is his seemingly boundless arrogance and pride.

all his rhetoric is Newspaper posturing. Achievements on ground are nearly nil. Of what use is his closeness to GEJ when he could not even get the President to make a public statement on the over 150 Christian girls kidnapped in Chibok Secondary school for 3 weeks.

BananaBender: Your ill-thought-out conclusion is that I am his follower (whatever this means)?? You must be really smart

I swear, these clowns are cracking me the hell up!

You cannot accuse me of not making reasonable comments because unlike you I don't arrive at biased or illogical conclusions.

I have gone to make my own findings, I can see that the man is footing the bills of the injured. He has reached out to the family of the deceased and he is even cooperating with several bodies in Nigeria and South African to find out the cause of the mishap.

Get a coffin and kill yourself, save the world from your epic stup1dity.

...but since we are depending on that IQ of yours to determine what is reasonable, I am not shocked you find mine unreasonable.

Most of us can only go on the public statements made by the man and his official social media outlets...and those have been incredibly insensitive and downright uncharitable to put it mildly.

Who cares if he's footing the bill? Either he or his agents are directly responsible for those deaths.

I'm not sure which is more stupid.

This brainless policy or the ordinary Nigerians that defend it.

zicoraads: Pity yourself, not Nigerians. Some of you have lost all sanity in the process of criticism, not minding how dumb you sometimes sound when trying too hard to be of relevance.
Do you even have any idea how many jobs this will create? Do you? Just check how many jobs the auto industry in South Africa creates. Car manufacturing plants, asSembly plants, spare parts and so on.
It is better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubtsm

The tariff increase is NOT required to create jobs. tax breaks and import waivers for local manufacturers are more than enough incentive to attract more investment in this sector.
People will patronise locally assembled cars if the savings from the local assembly is passed on to the consumer. At this stage, the local assembly scene is still in its nascent stages, there are ZERO vehicles available for sale apart from a few lower end and tiny Hyundai or Kia vehicles. Where is the local car for anyone who wants to buy a reliable family sized Sedan?


It's strange...when it comes to fuel subsidy removal the FG is keen to stress that 'Market forces' will drive down prices of fuel. For some reason, they are incredibly reluctant to let these same 'Market forces' apply in the purchase of autos.

All this has done is to drastically drive up the cost for the average Nigerian to purchase a vehicle that they like. Only sycophants and traitors are in support of this tarriff increase at this moment.

I might add that I'm extremely outraged that TB Joshua has not yet been arrested, or the Lagos State Government is remiss in its pledge to prosecute all who build without approval to the extent that buildings collapse.

I don't understand this man anymore.

More than 60 people died. many of them are BREADWINNERS for their families, and the mega rich Pastor is complaining HE is having a hard time?

You can't make this shiite up. This man is insensitive to the core.

After years of seeing SCOAN members posting gloating threads and facebook posts about 'predicted' tragedies and human suffering, why are we supposed to feel sorry for him?

Nonsense

Such a stupid lie...these people clearly take Nigerians for fools.

all4naija: What do you say about NFC and sizes iPhone users criticized of android phones in the past returning to iPhone 6? The tech giant is gradually eating the same sh*ts! Oh, please! Bwahaha...[/i]

I'd say it's good for me as a consumer. I'm not sure why you're so emotionally Involved in this. All I know is that the second half of my smartphone combo is an iPhone, and with the 6, Apple has removed one of the. A job issues I've had with their phones.

As for NFC, it was always that annoying radio that I turned off first thing to maximize battery life. most of you sheep bleating about NFC have never actually used it for anything really special.

hansad: Your clamour for empathy observed. But you ought to know it: solution to the Boko Haram problem is grant the 12 northern states a sharia-governed country it craves. Both young and old celebrated when northern governors introduced sharia criminal codes into the legal system of the 12 northern states. Boko Haram later sprang up and has consistently stated that it is fighting for a sharia-governed country. So? Must the rest of Nigeria perish with north for what north brought to itself? No.

Did the 12 northern Governors come and tell you they want a separate sharia-governed nation?
The solution to Boko Haram is to defeat those criminals and kill them. Your solution would be to turn your back on your fellow Nigerians as gladly watch as a genocidal terrorist group slaughtered innocents because they are not your people.

It's hard to believe that nominally, most of you devils are Christians. This is a thread to discuss news of an armed terrorist group massacring unarmed and vulnerable kids and to mourn and grieve. Yet here you are, patronizingly babbling about 'noting my request for empathy'.

Sometimes, I struggle to think how some of you sleep at night.

all4naija: O boi! You didn't even read where I said a friend pre-ordered one for resale for profit. Most of them are going to do the same thing. If you think they are directly sold to consumers then you have no idea of the reality of the pre-orders. Believe you me, the pre-orders are done by many people who want to resell them for profits. Go and ask very well.

Don't sweat over android with it freedom and user-friendly interfaces. Now, NFC and sizes have just been introduced to the curved edge patent infringement ranting Cupertino tech giant.

I don't understand your point.
Your friend made a purchase. He's going to sell it to someone else. Therefore, your friend has paid Apple money and your friend is a consumer. Whether he chooses to resell it or not, that isn't the issue. Apple isn't saying all Those 4 million people will be using the iPhones by the end of Friday. For some, delivery will be in a week. If past history will repeat itself, at least 5 more million should be sold in stores during the weekend.

At this point, you're just trolling. People have told you repeatedly that the bulk of iPhone buyers pretty much get theirs on contract where reselling isn't an option.

To your credit, I have never seen anyone put this much effort into troll posts before. Bravo.

oneeast: I am not rejoicing about the death of the people. I am only pained that the north created this monster that is ravaging it today. While their leaders have their children oversees, they used these Koran brainwashed children of others for their selfish purposes. So its a northern affair they should deal with it. I have not heard that a child of northern leader was killed in a blast or do they not have children too?

The problem of the north is illiteracy, their leaders used Koran to brainwash them to the extent that they could kill and destroy all in the name of their allah.

The north is its own problem afterwards they have ruled this country for over 35yrs out of 50yrs of its existence but still yet they are ravaged with horrible poverty and disease. What has those past rulers did to educate the north?

1. Stop these childish lies. You were rejoicing. You said you were 'feeling cool' as you read reports of vulnerable teenagers being blown to bits and machine-gunned to death.

2. Who is 'the north'? Is it the children on the streets of Kano that created this problem? Is it the kids in this school that have been killed?
If your beef is with the past leaders of the north, why not focus your ire on them instead of jubilating when teenagers are killed violently?

3. If you can agree that the problem of the north is illiteracy, why are you unconcerned when schools that are raising a new generation of northerners to fix the problem are attacked and killed?


Instead of thinking of how to craft a rebuttal, I suggest you sit down, look deep within yourself for a residual spark of humanity and ask why you cannot dredge up more empathy for the plight of your fellow Nigerians.

This sounds like news written by teenage boys, for teenage boys.

I'm pretty sure Boko Haram doesn't think the Nigerian Army has just ONE warplane.

oneeast: The north should maintain the spate of bombings and destruction of their land and economy so far as it does not affect us in our comfort here in Anambra!

We are cool with the northerners bombing the northern region!

A school was bombed.

A Federal college. So you can expect some Christians there. And religious inclination aside, those people are Kids, the children we all hope will come out and help to solve the massive issues of illiteracy and ignorance in the North.

And here you are, rejoicing over the deaths of teenagers and youths!

Curses be on you, accursed dolt!

all4naija: You still don't understand what I am talking about. For example, you pre-ordered 10 sims from me for resale today(it means 10 sims have been ordered) for the first day(not the actual sale). After supplying them to you the following day you proceed to sell them to those who need them and it takes you another 4 days to do that. In summary, 1 day for pre-order + 1 day for delivery + 4 days for resale of the 1o sims = 6 days in total to get to the final consumers. The 6 days reflect the actual time the 10 number get to the final consume . Bwhahaha...

No, you do not get it.

The 4 million pre-orders are direct-to-customer sales. There is no middle man here, this is all sold-through numbers.

And even worse for you, the iPhone 5S went on to record 9 million + sales in the first weekend alone. The 6/6+ will easily eclipse those numbers.

I'm not even sure why you're typing up this wall of text here, nobody else really believes that Apple is deliberately lying about sales. They achieve record breaking launch sales yearly without breaking a sweat.

Don't feel put out because most of your favorite Android OEMs are struggling. Sony just took a > $1bn loss on its Smartphone division due to poorer performance than expected.

ochejoseph: Happy viewing and reading !!!

www.twitter.com/ochejoseph

Fun fact:

This poster ends with a paragraph talking about 'supporter of APC politics'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/supporter of APC
The supporter of APC are a horse-back armed islamist militia that are famed for genocidal killings of between 200,000 to 400000 civilians.

The fact that multiple high placed members of the PDP (like Olisa Metuh and the sycophantic authors of this poster) continue to attempt to bring divide among religious lines by likening the opposition as a band of genocidal Islamist extremists is a FAR more worrying thing than anything Modu Sheriff has ever been accused of.

Philipsdael: If they dare kill those 12 soldiers.... Go and tell it beyond the mountain high that the retired GOC will be assassinated and the Nigerian Army will be faced with deserters.
Its a prophecy

And if the man gets assassinated, the DSS will approach Seun for his help in tracking you down. You will be found and arrested within a week of making this post. Your prosecution will be swift and you'll find that not many Nairalanders will be bothered to fight for you.

arttysticfyngaz: Dat is no News again na, unless u r living in Mars or God knws where. Wait a minute ur device cnt access google U beta dnt cos u will be by d search result.

No, I know a small number of Catholic Priests have been accused or found guilty of sexual abuse of minors.

I'm looking for where you got the idea that the CHURCH itself is under investigation, or it's an official policy of the Church to abuse minors. That is what your imbecilic post claims, and I'd like a creditable source.

noblezone: Biafrans and Niger Delta Republics can work together to achieve our freedoms from the Jihardists and their fellow marchants of death!

Nobody is going to join you in your delusions.

Sahara Reporters wrote an article, CAN attacks El-Rufai and Lai Mohammed. What is the meaning of this nonsense?

arttysticfyngaz: Same Catholic church dat is under the UN's touchlite for varrying gross sexual misconduct epitomised by paedophilia n adultery. Guy wakeup!!!!!

Source?

Dragonking: So why the initial lies?

First they said only 17people died, later they said a total of 50.

The truth will come out and shame these workers of iniquity and as for the so called pastor, your cup is getting filled.

Have you been living under a rock?

The death toll that's announced is usually the bodies they can find. The rescuers are still digging through the wreckage and finding bodies. Of course the death toll could increase.

This comes from greed, of course. You want to add additional floors without doing a risk assessment. Why not just buy more land around the church and build more hostels?

Cowards. Why not arrest and prosecute Prophet TB Joshua for talking about his own 'holy water' cure?

Also arrest the minister for health for the who inane 'nano-silver' debacle.

spotit: of course ur right, only that our beloved iPhone has played catch-up to sony,htc and Sammy...to say a few

z3 is ur introducer to the next season while 6/6+ are very 2014 when the year's spent already. you don't seem to get the source of my grouse... it's cos the iPhone was never in any other smartphone's league as a tool both in fashion and finesse, but they started resting. no, Apple must never be complacent

LMAO!!

Catch up? Call me back when your Sony flagship is able to rival the 6 for power.
Sony, HTC and Samsung still struggling to catch the 2012 iPhone 5 for smooth, lag free UI.

spotit: lool not even bruv, I'm no hypocrite. after all's said, u have to draw the £s against the innovation or spanking new tech ur getting in any of them. apple has remained sluggish in that regard. only to wake up and scam us with 'saphire'-glass. In the end, it's still glass and I'll wait for the diamondglass instead.

Apple has remained more innovative than your precious Sony. Where were you when they were rolling out the first 64-bit SoC in a mobile device in the iPhone 5S? Or when they put in a fully functional fingerprint scanner in the 5S, not the terrible ones in my S5 or the original Atrix?

Can you tell me what the innovation in your Z2 is?

There's a a bigger leap between the 5S and the 6 than there is between the Z2 and the Z3. So who's the Sheep?

spotit: i don't know what you're talking about, i could wait it and get android L on the Z2 but for improved hardware on the Z3. point is, i didn't realise u was a major iSheep.

So you aren't a 'sheep' for moving from the Z2 to the Z3?

So it makes sense to 'move for improved hardware' when going from the Z2 to the Z3, but when it's moving from the 5S to the 6+ (a much more drastic change) the Apple user is an 'iSheep'?

Especially when the 6 and 6+ plain MURDER the Z3 as far as power is concerned?

Hypocrisy