The Prosecuting Attorney approaches the bench… Your Honor, the commonwealth request that NO BAIL be set for the accused, it’s obvious he is a flight risk… On T.V. this is the way it works, in real life it seems the Android users are indeed a Flight Risk….. This was no little study, over 32 Thousand is a large survey…maybe Apple has another couple months to survive. John Data Shows User Loyalty to Android Might Be Declining Mike Peterson <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.idropnews.com_author_mike-2Dpeterson_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=d76pwSQ6JZ780zi_cr5kHrfVcm_qhxU81eUqbpCrdUk&s=_v2_PRnoCFBl78HzuJad1dErJnvpes3C2Jk8E64kpbs&e=>October 11, 2018 A new data report from Merrill Lynch Global Research may suggest that Android brand loyalty could be on the decline. Merrill Lynch analyst Horace Dediu recently tweeted out a chart that compiled the firm’s data on 32,523 smartphone users across the device spectrum — Apple users, Blackberry and Windows Phone users, and Android users who own devices from most top brands in that ecosystem. The chart ranks which brand of device users would plan on buying for their next smartphone, broken down by what device they were using currently. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_asymco_status_1049901134985527296_photo_1&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=d76pwSQ6JZ780zi_cr5kHrfVcm_qhxU81eUqbpCrdUk&s=YxQaL7dSSF4EzCmqYoY_Gm30TgERAmNYfi_0SY5BToI&e=> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_asymco_status_1049901134985527296_photo_1&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=d76pwSQ6JZ780zi_cr5kHrfVcm_qhxU81eUqbpCrdUk&s=YxQaL7dSSF4EzCmqYoY_Gm30TgERAmNYfi_0SY5BToI&e=> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__support.twitter.com_articles_20175256&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=d76pwSQ6JZ780zi_cr5kHrfVcm_qhxU81eUqbpCrdUk&s=ZVYslK96xAGaBGIYvsjPRIFmJ2-8kBC7_u32YvDiSUc&e=> For Android titans Samsung and Huawei, that figure was 53 and 54 percent, respectively. Just 42 percent of first-party Google owners said they planned on buying another Google device. Other Android brands seemed to have even less device loyalty than that. But, interestingly, Apple was the most popular device among brand switchers across the spectrum. In other words, if a user wasn’t planning on buying another device from their current OEM, they would choose an iPhone. It doesn’t seem to work the other way around, as Apple iPhone owners seem particularly invested in the ecosystem. Merrill Lynch’s data shows that among 70 percent of current Apple iPhone owners, another iPhone was their first choice for their next device. Compared to Apple, the results were even more asymmetric. While 25 percent of HTC device owners said they intended on buying an iPhone, only one percent of iPhone owners said they’d opt for an HTC. If the Merrill Lynch data is accurate, it could certainly suggest that Android brand loyalty is slowly declining. This is also purely looking at smartphone statistics. In other spheres, Apple is clearly dominating. When it comes to tablets and wearables, the company’s iPad and Apple Watch are the clear market leaders.
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