And don’t forget—the value of a long pause is difficult to overstate.” - Seth Godin
the right price for a product is the highest price you can ask for, but with one condition: that your customers remain happy after they buy it.
Infact, Apple is winning in Smartphones, not Android.
Have a look at this chart (via John Gruber).
Check the share of all smartphones (green bars). If I read the data correctly, this all story of Android crushing iPhone in market share is just plain wrong. At least what it implies (that consumers are showing any preference for Android) is wrong.
Apple is indeed constantly GAINING market share on smartphones.
What’s happening is that the industry is CONVERTING the rest of the smartphone business from old proprietary OSs or Symbian/Windows to Android, trying to keep up with Apple.
The (highly publicized) net effect is a higher market share of Android vs iPhone. But contrary to what Android fans seem to believe, this does not reflect any consumer trend.
Why does the industry want to keep people from getting the iPhone they long? They have a million reasons (I hear stories of carriers willingly going out of stock of iPhones in their stores/websites for weeks to try to force people to get a different phone). The biggest cost these days for carriers is subsidizing your new phone. All non Apple smartphone producers are willing to compromise on discounts and payment terms (and it shows if you check their profits) while Apple, having clearly the most coveted device in the market, is not.
Usually I prefer to stay out of the fanboy battles, but I thought these data are worth commenting on.
As of today, Android is not winning the smartphone battle. iPhone is.
Google Account Security Best Practices
My Google account is probably the login that’s most valuable to me, together with the one of my bank account. Here’s a very useful roundup of quick measures you can take to make sure your Google account is secure.
Especially since I got an iPhone I gave authorization to access my Google account data to way too many applications, so this advice was particularly useful to me:
Check to see what applications/services you’ve authorized to have access to your Google Account.
Go here and see what websites/applications are listed - these are services who you previously granted access to your Google Account. If there are any there you no longer use, or sites you didn’t intend to authorize, click revoke.
Hope this helps!
