The Macalope Daily: All kinds of winning
It’s traditional to use the appellation “number cruncher” for someone like Horace Dediu, but that seems inadequate. Dediu does not so much crunch numbers as he vaporizes them.
Over the weekend, Dediu posted a couple of tweets on Twitter—as one does (it would be embarrassing to post them anywhere else)—that noted some interesting data points about Black Friday online sales traffic. The first noted that iOS made up a whopping (the Macalope is required by law to use the term “whopping” here, because of the number) 77 percent of mobile online sales. Android made up 21 percent.
This is where the Henry Blodgets and Dan Lyons of the world try to jump in and say “But Android must surely be growing at a faster rate than iOS!” Which is also where the Dedius of the world say “Not so much.” While Android grew from the prior year by 244 percent, iOS grew by 379 percent.
Well, who cares?! What matters is market share, right? Who cares if Apple device owners are more inclined to throw away their money in an orgy of capitalist hedonism than ooooh, right, developers.
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