One reason to love Israel...

[shaayecanaan]

Android has 51% of the Israeli market and Apple only 32%. Samsung's Galaxy series alone leads the iphone by 34% to 32%. At least the Israelis realise what an overpriced, hobbled POS the iphone is. I am pretty sure that Samsung is not that dominant anywhere else, even in Korea.


http://www.haaretz.com/business/israelis-love-smartphones-tepid-about-tablets-market-data-show-1.450586

Last year was a milestone for the digital market as for the first time smartphones outsold traditional devices, known as feature phones. Of 1.8 million devices sold in the private sector, about 856,000 were the old models and were 964,000 smartphones, according to IDC.

The competition is a close race between the Samsung Galaxy and Apple's iPhone, with the Korean brand slightly ahead. Samsung enjoys a 34% share of the Israeli smartphone market - two percentage points ahead of the iconic iPhone. IDC estimates there are about 714,000 iPhones in use in Israel altogether.

Way behind are Sony-Ericsson and Nokia, each with a 9% market share, the BlackBerry with 8%, and LG with 5% (much of that due to the fact that the government gives them to civil servants entitled to one ).

From a technology-platform perspective, however, it is Android that has the biggest share, with 51% of all phones, according to IDC. Apple's iOS follows with about a third. Nokia's Symbian and BlackBerry's OS are in the single digits. That is a revolution: As recently as 2009, Symbian controlled 80% of the smartphone market, while iOS had just 16%, and Android a mere 3%. Microsoft's platform, Window Phone, has only a negligible market share today.

[Moonwalk]

1. So, what you're saying is that Isrealis like bad cameras, unreliable video, poor apps...

and a platform that promises to be open when it's really not and, being run by Google, doesn't respect your privacy.

Well, maybe they'll come to their senses.

[shaayecanaan]

2. bad camera?

The iPhone 4s camera is made by Sony, and is essentially the same camera that Sony put on the Xperia arc, an Android phone that sells for about half the price of the iPhone. But I suppose you believe that hardware magically becomes better when the apple logo gets stamped on it. Its a good job that apple finds enough willing dupes that are willing to pay the markup I suppose.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. Israeli national character is too anarchistic to be fanbois

OMG I am agreeing with the shaayecanaan

[shaayecanaan]

5. I'm pretty sure the I/P rules here don't apply to Apple fanbois

which is a good thing, because I think that Apple fanbois are irritating little turds.

[azurnoir]

4. Interesting we had much hoopla about Apple building a facility in Israel

guess the Israel's are not as grateful as some of the posters here are

eta add link to that thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=1360