Daniel Eran Dilger
A new report on North American adoption of smartphones found iPhone 5 gained users the fastest, building upon Apple's lead in U.S. and Canadian market share, but that Samsung phones displaced other Android devices, giving the Korean giant a plurality of Android's user base.
The report, by Chitika Insights, profiled the web analytics of Apple's late 2012 iPhone 5 and Samsung's early 2013 Galaxy S4, charting (above) the adoption of each model over the first two months of each model's release.
"Just one week following the iPhone 5 hitting the shelves at U.S. and Canadian retailers," the report noted, "the device's users were already generating close to 4% of all iPhone traffic across the continent."
The report also observed (below) that, "despite Samsung not besting Apple in terms of adoption of its flagship smartphone, the Korean company has succeeded in dominating the North American Android marketplace."
Overall, Chitika's comparative web traffic statistics indicate that Apple's share of all North American traffic grew by two percentage points between February 2013 and January 2014, increasing from 65 percent to 67 percent, while Samsung's declined by two points, falling from a 35 percent share to 33 percent.
"Continental usage of Apple products generally outperform its market share," Chitika stated, "likely indicating that users are highly engaged with the company's devices as compared to those of its competitors. Samsung has invested heavily in the North American mobile marketplace, and its devices easily drive the most Android Web traffic."
Samsung's dominance among Android smartphones is a particular concern for Google, as the Korean conglomerate has been working to deliver its own Tizen, a Linux-based mobile operating system that the company wants to use as a drop in replacement for Google's Android.
The company has already migrated its watch product to use the new software instead of Android.
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So with Tizen is the intention to create another closed ecosystem?
Just got an S4 from work. Use the Good system for corporate email etc. Still have the i5s as my personal phone. After 1 week.... S4 is definitely not up to Apple build standard or android not as easy to use as iOS. But.... It ain't that bad. Really like the larger screen size. If they did not have all the crapware it would be much better experience. Have to go in and turn it all off. Tons of junk apps. It appears Samsung is dumping the market with these phones. My upgrade at work was free, Verizon just announced get four for free etc. IMO if Apple comes out with a larger phone for the same price as today... Will be a bigger seller than it is now due to the larger size(I know thems fight'n words... Please no hate it's just an opinion :) )
I'm telling ya... Fandroids are going to get a brutal kick in the balls when Samsung - dominating Android - turns right around and throws that crap right out the door and brings in TizenOS. It's what's going to happen, and Fandroids are just wandering around in denial. Deers in the headlights.
Samsung is going to show the Fandroids just how tools they really were.
So with Tizen is the intention to create another closed ecosystem?
no, Tizen is an open source project
I'm telling ya... Fandroids are going to get a brutal kick in the balls when Samsung - dominating Android - turns right around and throws that crap right out the door and brings in TizenOS. It's what's going to happen, and Fandroids are just wandering around in denial. Deers in the headlights.
Samsung is going to show the Fandroids just how tools they really were.
sflocal, has it ever occurred to you that some of the so-called "Fandroids" are fans of SAMSUNG (and Korean companies, in general) and don't really care about Android all that much? I, for example, would gladly buy a SAMSUNG mobile with Tizen instead of Android (not that I dislike Android).
Not that a major switch by SAMSUNG from Android to Tizen is going to happen... this is just some usual Dilger (aka Corrections) drivel -- on the same nonsense-level as Google switching from Android to ChromeOS...
PS. If AppleInsider wants to maintain an illusion of journalistic integrity and objectivity they should get rid of Dilger (aka Corrections) as soon as possible -- Dilger's diatribes might be good as click-bait... but nothing more.