Globally, Android has had about 70% to 75% market share, and Apple has always had a much smaller slice of the total. iPhones are not as popular as you seem to think they are. You don't have to believe me, the data proves it:
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide/...
Android has the majority share because "Android" is anything from a $100 piece of junk to a $1200 phone. If you look at only the premium market, Apple holds ~70% market share.
Despite antenna gate, it still sold plenty, which proves the point about brand trust that the thread was about.
If the brand equity wasn't there, the Galaxy S would have out sold the iPhone 4, but it didn't, it sold half as much.
Are you trying to give Apple some kind of tech participation trophy? Because that's all you're doing.
>If you look at only the premium market, Apple holds ~70% market share.
Sure, Apple is a luxury brand, and so not many people can afford it. Nor should they be spending the ridiculous amount of money Apple normally charges.
>Despite antenna gate, it still sold plenty, which proves the point about brand trust that the thread was about.
Reality distortion field still in effect in 2026.
>If the brand equity wasn't there, the Galaxy S would have out sold the iPhone 4, but it didn't, it sold half as much.
I don't care about brands as much as you seem to, that much I'm sure about. Your precious Apple could never do you wrong, we get it.
Which means just *one* of the Android flagships - which are a much, much more segmentated market! - sold half as much as the iOS competitor.
"far outsell" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
The iPhone has a market share of 60% in the US [1]. The leading Android manufacturer Samsung has a market share of 22% in the US.
These numbers are from last year; the iPhone sold like hotcakes in the European 5, the US (of course), Australia, Mainland China and Japan [2].
BTW, the European 5 consists of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK.
Apple by itself globally makes up about 43% of the revenue in the smartphone market [3].
Yes, devices running the Android operating system sell a lot of units; the majority of them are no-frills devices from manufacturers most people have never heard of. Which is fine—having a phone is better than not having one.
But don’t act like Android is some kind of juggernaut; these five markets represent 2.24 billion people and 60% of the world's GDP. Android isn’t the bestselling phone in any of these countries.
# Top Selling Models
European 5
| Rank | Model |
|------|--------------------|
| 1 | iPhone 16 Pro |
| 2 | Samsung Galaxy A55 |
| 3 | iPhone 15 |
| 4 | iPhone 16 |
| 5 | iPhone 16 Pro Max |
US
| Rank | Model |
|------|-------------------|
| 1 | iPhone 16 Pro Max |
| 2 | iPhone 16 |
| 3 | iPhone 16 Pro |
| 4 | iPhone 15 |
| 5 | iPhone 14 |
Australia
| Rank | Model |
|------|-------------------|
| 1 | iPhone 16 Pro Max |
| 2 | iPhone 16 |
| 3 | iPhone 16 Pro |
| 4 | iPhone 12 |
| 5 | Samsung Galaxy A35|
Mainland China
| Rank | Model |
|------|--------------------|
| 1 | iPhone 16 Pro Max |
| 2 | iPhone 16 Pro |
| 3 | iPhone 16 |
| 4 | Huawei Mate 60 Pro |
| 5 | Huawei Mate 60 |
Japan
| Rank | Model |
|------|--------------------|
| 1 | iPhone 16 |
| 2 | iPhone 16 Pro |
| 3 | iPhone 15 |
| 4 | iPhone 14 |
| 5 | Google Pixel 8a |
[2]: "iPhone 16 secures top-selling global smartphone model in competitive holiday period" — https://www.kantar.com/inspiration/technology/iphone-16-secu...
[3]: "iPhone rakes in 3 times the revenue of any rival" — https://www.cultofmac.com/news/iphone-rakes-in-3-times-the-r...
Let me get this straight: you believe the iPhone "is very low ranking in the larger world of Smartphones" even though it's the most popular and best selling smartphone in the five largest economies on the planet.
I posted the 5 top selling smartphones in the European 5, United States, Australia, Japan, and China—out of 25 models listed, 80% (20 out of 25) were iPhones.
Don't hate the player, hate the game. No matter what you believe, the number are the numbers:
- Apple’s iPhone marketshare in the US is 60% vs Samsung’s at 22%
- the iPhone alone brought in $209,586 billion in FY 2025 [1]
- if the iPhone were its own company, it would be #9 on the Fortune 500
- Apple's iPhone revenue is greater than the revenue of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and AMD combined.
[1]: https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2025/ar/...