Android Selling Price Drops Faster Than IPhone

Resale price of Android vs iPhone (Photo by Hardik Sharma on Unsplash)

JAKARTA - Even though there are now several operating system options available in the Indonesian market, Android and iOS are still the people's top choices. According to Indonesian smartphone market data released by Statcounter, 92.27 percent of the mobile phones used by people run the Android operating system. Meanwhile, iOS is only used by 7.5 percent of the total active devices in the country.

The number of manufacturers who rely more on Android is one factor that makes Android dominate the market. Meanwhile, iOS, as we know, is an exclusive operating system for Apple devices only.

However, new facts were successfully obtained from research conducted by the BankMyCell cellphone price comparison site. According to research by the company headquartered in New York, the selling price of a used Android smartphone has fallen two times faster than the iPhone.

This conclusion is obtained from a comparison of the initial price of Android phones and iPhones which are priced above 700 US dollars (US) or the equivalent of IDR 9.8 million at the resale price.

“From January 1 to December 31, the mobile exchange site BankMycell recorded the value of used cellphones from 310 popular cell phones every hour. Our annual trade-in market report reveals which smartphone brands, operating systems, and series are consuming consumers' money the fastest, ”the company wrote in a post on its official blog.

Based on this research, the company concluded that the selling price of Android devices that have only been used for one year has fallen by 33.62 percent. Meanwhile, iPhone cellphones that have only been used for one year only fell 16.70 percent.

Meanwhile, for Android phones that have been used for two years, the decline is getting sharper. Reached 61.50 percent. On the other hand, the resale price of HP iPhones used for two years only fell by 35.70 percent.

“If we look at the decline in the value of the price when it was launched, the data is more surprising. Nine months after the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, its resale price fell to 64.71 percent from the original selling price. For comparison, nine months after the iPhone 11 Pro Max was launched, it only dropped 32.33 percent," explained the company.

Not only flagship smartphones have experienced the fastest decline. Android phones in the budget class also experience the same thing. In more detail, BankMyCell uses data from the resale price of the phone which was priced at USD 350 (around IDR 5 million) at launching.

"An example is the Samsung A50 which lost up to 79.17 percent of the selling price when it was launched in 2019 in just 9 months, then fell even further to 61.97 percent during 2020," the company explained.

This New York-based company explains that the phones from Nokia, iPhone, and LG are the three brands whose resale price drops the slowest compared to other brands.