I’m not sure you get what I’m saying. 56% of smartphones are Apples. The next biggest is Samsung, with just 26%. Next is Motorola with just 4%. Add all the Android phones together and the number doesn’t come close to the number of Apple phones. So yeah, it makes sense that Google is going to give a bigger incentive to a company that is going to drive more traffic by far than any other.
But a lot of those are lower value markets for advertisers, or markets where Google has low marketshare anyway (e.g. China). So the amount of money Google is willing to pay is much lower than more lucrative markets like Western countries where people are affluent enough to afford iPhones.
Again, US is the only western country with Apple being in the lead. In all other affluent western countries, Apple is 2nd or 3rd by market share. Just recently, they even fell to 2nd place in Western Europe, which everyone said was impossible just a few years back.
And I sincerely hope that continues. I wish there was a third or fourth major player in the mobile space instead of just Android and iOS, but I guess that ship has sailed. Maybe Linux phones will get there eventually, we’ll see.
That’s a fair point, but (1) Apple is still huge globally, with them and Samsung dwarfing everyone else and (2) Google doesn’t operate in China, and probably some other countries, so the total global market isn’t relevant either.
I’m not sure you get what I’m saying. 56% of smartphones are Apples. The next biggest is Samsung, with just 26%. Next is Motorola with just 4%. Add all the Android phones together and the number doesn’t come close to the number of Apple phones. So yeah, it makes sense that Google is going to give a bigger incentive to a company that is going to drive more traffic by far than any other.
You are using data from US only. Globally, Apple share fell to 16% in 2023 Q3, they are big, but far from the biggest player in global market.
But a lot of those are lower value markets for advertisers, or markets where Google has low marketshare anyway (e.g. China). So the amount of money Google is willing to pay is much lower than more lucrative markets like Western countries where people are affluent enough to afford iPhones.
Again, US is the only western country with Apple being in the lead. In all other affluent western countries, Apple is 2nd or 3rd by market share. Just recently, they even fell to 2nd place in Western Europe, which everyone said was impossible just a few years back.
Don’t you know everyone from outside the US is poor!
And I sincerely hope that continues. I wish there was a third or fourth major player in the mobile space instead of just Android and iOS, but I guess that ship has sailed. Maybe Linux phones will get there eventually, we’ll see.
That’s a fair point, but (1) Apple is still huge globally, with them and Samsung dwarfing everyone else and (2) Google doesn’t operate in China, and probably some other countries, so the total global market isn’t relevant either.
That’s included in Xiomi and other. The rest are android phones. It’s still a small total share even discounting a quarter or fifth of that market.