Originally Posted by
CPRich
Adjusted most of the Location and Notification settings. I have no idea why 3/4 of the applications on my machine need to know my location to do what they need to, or why they feel they need to push data t me all the time. I also turned off wi-fi during my long Monday commute, and I set my Hotmail/Gmail accounts to manual pulls, though I left Exchange as a real-time push.
It's not for everyone, but those who are comfortable with their location being used can benefit by more relevant information, targeted ads (as opposed to broader ones they'd see instead), improved social functionality. Both iOS and Android take advantage of the capability by default, but warn you they are doing so. When you don't desire these things, you can easily turn them off, as you did. I'm the opposite of you... I prefer to have all my information pushed to me as much as possible, I turn on my location so everything is as relevant as possible, etc. My favorite benefit is how my phone predicts where I'm driving and pulls up an ETA and map (in the background, but easily accessible if I want). Freaks some people out, but I love it.
Originally Posted by
CPRich
Regarding market share, anyone who thinks that looking at the last quarter market share is an indication of how the iPhone5 is doing doesn't quite get it. Android is down 1% and iOS is up over 2% in the last 10-14 days. You know, since the iPhone 5 was actually released. And there is still a 2-3 week wait - check the data about the end of November, I think you'll see very different data.
Looking at weekly averages, Android has actually gained a minuscule fraction of share since the iPhone 5 release about a month ago. If you're point is that looking at small time periods can be misleading, I agree. For example, over the past four years, every iPhone and iPad release (with the exception of this latest one) caused Android share to drop notably for several weeks while iOS gained. It would have been easy to mistake these periods as a sign that Apple was going to reverse the long-term trend. These drops are
visible in this chart, but as you can also see, weren't enough to alter the longer year-over-year trend of Android steadily gaining share and Apple more erratically losing share and then stabilizing. Looking just at the past 18 months or so, you can see that the two platforms were largely coupled, but over the past quarter (including the weeks following the IP5 release), Android has diverged markedly to the upside. Some claim that this is a result of Apple supply constraints, not the plethora of iPhone 5 and iOS 6 problems, and they could be correct. I'm betting, however, that the root cause is that consumers are realizing that Apple is now selling devices that are trying to catch up with the competition instead of leading it, and at a higher price, so they are shifting to Android more aggressively than in the past.