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Comment by zachguo | Hacker News Reader

To compare the stats across countries, it's helpful to factor in mobile OS market share and population size. http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

Also, transparency report for USA: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html

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Belarus, Costa Rica, small as they are, contrast significantly with Germany and Singapore.

The market share of Android vs iOS in Singapore is interesting, I guess because iPhone Xs (max).

What the hell happened in Singapore?

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/singapore

It went from 87% to Android in July 2018 to being neck and neck with iOS.

Don't believe everyone tosssed their Androids for an iPhone.

Why would you not believe that? Changing phones isn’t a big deal when upgrading.

Guess the iPhone X’s full screen design was a hit - seen quite a few people on the train here with them; I’m quite surprised given the pricing of the iPhone X line, guess there are more more with cash to spare than I thought.

Maybe even some people bought the iPhone X for the gaming performance.

In not putting in cause the quality of the iPhone.

But the iPhone X didn't came in mid-2018 to cause such a crackdown.

Such a hit that would cause a 30(!)% marketshare change?

I think the metric depend on the network of sites that provide the metric. So a lake of suffisent input from popular website of a country could bias result for such a country. And a shift in the network could result on a shift on the data. The question that remain is was is more accurate before or does this shift result of a better accuracy.

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