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TL; DR
- According to Counterpoint, the iPhone now beats Android when it comes to the US market.
- Apple’s iPhone install base accounts for 50% of the market share compared to smartphones and Android-based phones.
- After the launch of iPhone 13, the growth of iPhone has increased significantly.
For much of the long-running battle between Android and iOS, Android has been superior in terms of raw numbers. After all, there are over two billion active Android devices worldwide. Even here in America, Android dominates.
That is, until now. According to the compiled information Financial Times According to Counterpoint Research, iPhone beats Android in US numbers. For the first time, the iPhone’s active install base — that is, the number of active devices — represents more than 50% of the US market.
To make things even more serious, that’s not just when compared to Android smartphones – Android feature phones are also included.
You can see the table below which tells the general stories.
iPhone beats Android: a painful chart
From 2018 to 2019, the iPhone active install base remained flat. In the year It is slowly (but very steadily) coming out in 2019 and 2021. It stagnated in mid-2021 and skyrocketed in the second half of the year. In the year In 2022, it has decreased slightly.
One thing the chart clearly shows is how successful the iPhone 13 series has been with the US audience. In the year Growth was significant in 2021 but stalled in the summer. As soon as the iPhone 13 series drops, the numbers are just in.
Keep in mind that this chart doesn’t say much about people who have stayed with iPhones. In other words, if someone owns an iPhone 12 and upgrades to an iPhone 13, this will not cause a dent in the chart because the number of active iPhones will remain the same. This chart mostly represents when people first got the iPhone. You know what that means: most people have probably switched from Android.
It’s clear that Google and other Android OEMs really need to step up if they don’t want to see this chart rise in 2023.