Android being the "biggest mobile OS" is like QNX being the biggest embedded OS. If you have 80% market share but 90% of your users don't care about being a phonetechnoweeniegeek, then it's irrelevant.
The stat we should be tracking is: out of people who actually use their phones (a horrible name for these things now anyway) as computers, which percentage of those people are using which device? We constantly see stats of "Android has 80% market share! But--now keep this between just you and me--iOS makes up 80% of mobile web traffic."
Actually no, Android now wins in large parts of Europe and Asia by web traffic, iOS still slightly ahead in the US and only massively ahead in some outliers like Switzerland. One thing is sure, you can't ignore Android anymore.
I wonder how portion of Android users care about their platform.
Given the cheapness of some of these phones, would not surprise me if many users had low interest in their devices beyond the phone and basic web/app use.
Looking at the user boards and among my circles, many Android user actually seem to care more about their platform - for better or worse. Apple's continuing "thermo nuclear war* seems to spawn a strong anti reaction. Who'd have thought. I just hope enough Apple exes see this, too.
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Android being the "biggest mobile OS" is like QNX being the biggest embedded OS. If you have 80% market share but 90% of your users don't care about being a phonetechnoweeniegeek, then it's irrelevant.
The stat we should be tracking is: out of people who actually use their phones (a horrible name for these things now anyway) as computers, which percentage of those people are using which device? We constantly see stats of "Android has 80% market share! But--now keep this between just you and me--iOS makes up 80% of mobile web traffic."
Actually no, Android now wins in large parts of Europe and Asia by web traffic, iOS still slightly ahead in the US and only massively ahead in some outliers like Switzerland. One thing is sure, you can't ignore Android anymore.
Source: Statscounter
I wonder how portion of Android users care about their platform.
Given the cheapness of some of these phones, would not surprise me if many users had low interest in their devices beyond the phone and basic web/app use.
Looking at the user boards and among my circles, many Android user actually seem to care more about their platform - for better or worse. Apple's continuing "thermo nuclear war* seems to spawn a strong anti reaction. Who'd have thought. I just hope enough Apple exes see this, too.
Is there actual research on this?
I can't see this massive Android flood being based largely on OS loyalty.