Bill Gates revealed that he prefers to use Android phones

Microsoft founder Bill Gates made his first visit to the increasingly popular voice-based social platform Clubhouse on Wednesday and made some interesting announcements.

Clubhouse currently only runs on iOS, so many people wondered how Bill Gates felt about the iPhone. He stated that he prefers smartphones with the Android operating system.

According to him, Microsoft’s software pre-installed by some Android manufacturers is very user-friendly. These smartphones are more flexible in the relationship between software and operating system. However, he has many friends who use iPhone.

Gates is currently promoting his new book, Avoiding Climate Disaster. He looks forward to working more with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to work together to fight climate change.

Gates said he doesn’t like Bitcoin very well. He believes that the process of mining cryptocurrency requires a lot of computing power and consumes a lot of electricity. He also revealed that he did not invest in bitcoin.

IDC: The smartphone market has returned to growth

Experts of the analytical company IDC summed up the results of the fourth quarter of 2020 and the whole year in general on the smartphone market. As stated in the corresponding report, the smartphone market returned to growth. Sales in the fourth quarter of 2020 were 385.9 million units, which is 4.3% more than smartphones sold in the fourth quarter of 2019. At the same time, for the entire 2020, smartphones were sold 5.9% less than in 2019.

At the end of the fourth quarter of 2020, Apple was named the market leader. It was able to increase sales in annual terms, that is, compared to the same quarter of the previous year, by 22.2% – from 73.8 to 90.1 million devices. This led to an increase in Apple’s share from 19.9% ​​to 23.4%. The second place is occupied by Samsung, which in annual terms increased sales by 6.2%, as a result of which its share increased from 18.8% to 19.1%. The third place is taken by Xiaomi. Its share increased from 8.9% to 11.2%. The top five also include Oppo and Huawei. Also, The share of Oppo increased from 8.3% to 8.8%. The share of Huawei decreased from 15.2% to 8.4%.

As for 2020 as a whole, Samsung remained the leader with 20.6% of the market. Apple is in second place with 15.9%. The share of Huawei, which is in third place at the end of 2020, is 14.6%. The fourth-place belongs to Xiaomi, whose share is 11.4%, the fifth – to Vivo, whose share is 8.6%. In 2019, Samsung’s share was 21.6%, Apple’s 13.9%. Huawei – 17.5%, Xiaomi – 9.2%, Vivo – 8.0%.