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nchomsky on Nov 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Android now powers 75% of all smartphones sold

So if Apple has 70% of the market share, how does Android make up 75%? It can only be less than 30%. Can anyone clarify?

daenz on Nov 2, 2012 [–]

I think that because the sentence includes "of all smartphones sold", the discrepency is describing a shift in market share. Apple could have 70% now, and 75% of all new devices sold now could be Android. They were in the game first, and aggregated a huge market share, but now it is shifting.

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