But it’s nowhere near the top of Google’s priorities.
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Android is certainly still a thing for Google. Nothing in the last two years has changed my mind on that. I think Google, institutionally, is bored with Move the Android developer ecosystem - only Google can.Īpple, institutionally, is as attentive to the iPhone and iOS as Hardware makers sure are interested in Android, but they can’t Like Google is losing interest in Android. Software platform and as the maker of Pixel hardware, it seems Two years ago I wrote:ĭo you get the sense that Google, company-wide, is all that I also continue to think Google is bored with Android. You don’t hear so much about “ open beats closed” anymore. Market, as well as those who use iPhones purchased years ago. People brought into Apple’s ecosystem through the used phone The active installed base takes into account the millions of This is a widerĪnd more meaningful category than new phone shipments, whichįluctuate from quarter to quarter and have already demonstrated Installed base”, what Apple finance chief Luca Maestri dubbed “theĮngine for our company” in a July earnings call. The numbers are based on smartphones in use, known as the “active I was not aware that Lenovo is second behind Samsung in Android phones. Some 150 devices using Google’s Android operating system, led by Samsung and Lenovo, accounted for the rest. The 50 per cent landmark - the iPhone’s highest share since it launched in 2007 - was first passed in the quarter ending in June, according to data from Counterpoint Research.
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Patrick McGee, reporting for The Financial Times: Counterpoint Research: iPhone Overtakes Android in U.S.