{"id":654751,"date":"2013-04-26T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T18:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=467734"},"modified":"2013-04-26T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T18:45:47","slug":"why-android-will-never-conquer-the-world-iphone-users-are-steadfastly-loyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654751","title":{"rendered":"Why Android will never conquer the world: iPhone users are steadfastly loyal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/26\/ios-android-customer-loyalty-survey-467734\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/apple-vs-android-e1348162444756.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"iOS Android\" title=\"iOS Android\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>While <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/ios-android-market-share-361895\/\">Google&#8217;s Android operating system has a lead over iOS in overall market share<\/a>, it faces a hard barrier that blocks its ability to expand its lead much further: The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/08\/23\/iphone-android-user-loyalty-survey\/\">loyalty of iOS users<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130426\/androids-leaky-bucket-loyalty-gives-apple-the-edge-over-time\/\"><em>AllThingsD<\/em> points us<\/a> to a new survey from the Yankee Group showing that 91% of iPhone users plan to buy an iPhone for the next smartphone while just 76% of Android users plan to stick with Android. Granted, this means that the majority of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/android\">Android<\/a> users are loyal to their platform but not to the same extent as Apple fans are loyal to the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a>. Going forward, the Yankee Group thinks that the iPhone will expand its share of the mobile market and overtake Android, although it doesn&#8217;t think Android&#8217;s current market share will significantly deteriorate. Rather, most of the gains for iOS will come at the expense of non-smartphone operating systems that are slowly phased out over the next few years.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/vtoBLGHfOl4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Google&#8217;s Android operating system has a lead over iOS in overall market share, it faces a hard barrier that blocks its ability to expand its lead much further: The loyalty of iOS users. AllThingsD points us to a new survey from the Yankee Group showing that 91% of iPhone users plan to buy an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}