Fri. 09/02 – iPhone Takes The Market Share Crown

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🗓️ 2 September 2022

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, September 2nd, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.8	Today the iPhone Install Base has surpassed the Android Install Base in the US for the first time, basically since
0:15.0	Android began.
0:16.7	Apple settled with a developer for the first time any of us can remember.
0:20.1	Meta signs a VR chip deal with Qualcomm, the really good and really annoying bits of the new USB standard,
0:26.4	and of course, the weekend long read suggestions.
0:29.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:31.4	Happy headlines. the iPhone active installed base overtook Android to gain more than 50% market share
0:47.2	of the US smartphone market in Q2 up from just 35% market share in 2019, making this the highest market
0:52.1	market share in 2019,
0:53.4	making this the highest market share the iPhone has had
0:57.0	in the smartphone market since 2007,
0:59.6	quoting the Financial Times.
1:01.6	The 50% landmark, the iPhone's highest share since it launched in 2007,
1:06.4	was first passed in the quarter ending in June,
1:08.8	according to data from Counterpoint Research.
1:11.1	Some 150 devices using Google's
1:13.0	Android operating system, led by Samsung and
1:15.4	Lenovo, accounted for the rest. Operating systems are
1:18.6	like religions, never significant changes, but over the past four
1:22.4	years, the flow has consistently been
1:24.3	Android to iOS said counterpoint's research director Jeff Fieldhac this is a big
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