G+_Harold Crews Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Watching yesterday's Tech Guy and Leo has a point as far as Apple staggering its phone releases having a diminished impact because of the common two year cycle of phone updates due to the contract/subsidy structure in the US. But of course the counter-point is that an enormous part of the phone market is outside the US and not in the same contract/subsidy structure. This is reflected in the stats showing that Apple has a small lead in the US in market share but Android dominates market share worldwide. Apple's strategy also doesn't take into account that people who are looking to upgrade their phone at the end of the contract often want the latest phone and that won't be the Apple phone except for a relatively small window of six months or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jo Welde Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Two-year carrier contracts as the norm are going to be going away in the USA, I believe. My contract ends in a few months, and I won't be signing a new one. I'll be buying my phones outright, and be on plans I can drop with no penalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Harold Crews Posted March 17, 2013 Author Share Posted March 17, 2013 Once my Verizon contract ends I'm going with T Mobile without a contract or phone subsidy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Nolan Bet Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 I've been out of contract for a couple of years now and use Straight Talk now with the T-mobile sim. My family uses the AT&T sim and none of us have any complaints with it. We are not heavy users so we really don't have to worry about the throttling that the extreme users complain about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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