Android users switching to iPhone in increasing numbers

A recent survey done by CIRP (an American research company) has found that more and more users are switching from Android to iPhone and more people are upgrading from iPhone to iPhone than a year before.

 

Last year 55% of iPhone buyers were upgrading from a previous iPhone, this year it is 65% and over 20% of buyers are switching over from Android, although the stats don’t say which manufacturer in particular is losing out.

A previous report by the same company 3 months ago found that Apple customers are most likely to come from a Blackberry whilst Samsung owners are most likely to have come from a Nokia or HTC.

 

Admittedly this is a survey of just 400 new iPhone 5c and 5s buyers but does seem to tally with the flattening of Samsung’s financial figures. Are you an Apple convert or have you switched away from iPhone for whatever reason?

Source: CIRP

Via: AppleInsider

Zuckerberg: NSA scandal hurt users’ trust in Facebook

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The fallout from the National Security Agency surveillance scandal hasn’t just hurt trust between American tech companies and foreign governments — it’s also damaged the relationship between American tech companies and their own customers. Per Reuters, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week that revelations about the NSA’s vast data collection practices have made users less likely to trust Facebook and said that the government’s handling of the scandal has been woefully inept.

“Response to the NSA issues that have blown up are a big deal for the Internet as a global platform,” Zuckerberg said. “And some of the government statements I think have been profoundly unhelpful… ‘Oh, we only spy on non-Americans.’ Gee thanks… we’re trying to provide an international service, not get crushed in those places either.”

Much like Google and Microsoft, Zuckerberg wants the government to let his company be more transparent about what information it provides to the government and about how many requests it receives to cough up information on its users each year.

“From reading in the media, you couldn’t get a sense whether the number of requests that the government makes is closer to a thousand or closer to a 100 million,” he said. “I think the more transparency the government has, the better folks would feel.”