The other bit of data they fail to mention is that on the Android side of things, this includes ALL Android devices vs iPhones-only.
Granted, there are so very few available Android-OS-based devices that aren't smartphones, but still, they seem to be including those devices in the total sales numbers while they're ignoring 50million iPod touches and ten+ million iPads in the total sales numbers.
Add in iPod touches and iPads and Android isn't anywhere close to outselling iOS devices just yet.
And why would they include the iPod and iPad when it's clear they were doing a smartphone only survey? Last I checked, neither the iPod nor iPad were technically smartphones.
Of all my programmer/engineer/scientist friends who use Android, none of them seem to do anything with the phone that they can't do with the iPhone (I've asked).
So none of your apparently technically oriented friends use desktop widgets like the Facebook widget? They don't use Google Maps Navigation, Gesture Search, Google Voice commands or Skype (if they've got an Android 2.2 phone)? Or wonderful push apps like Google Scoreboard (works well with the window blind notifications of Android)?
If that's the case, then you're right. They should be using iPhones.
So none of your apparently technically oriented friends use desktop widgets like the Facebook widget? They don't use Google Maps Navigation, Gesture Search, Google Voice commands or Skype (if they've got an Android 2.2 phone)? Or wonderful push apps like Google Scoreboard (works well with the window blind notifications of Android)?
If that's the case, then you're right. They should be using iPhones.
"So none of your apparently technically oriented friends use desktop widgets like the Facebook widget? They don't use Google Maps Navigation, Gesture Search, Google Voice commands or Skype (if they've got an Android 2.2 phone)? Or wonderful push apps like Google Scoreboard (works well with the window blind notifications of Android)?" Hmm, neither am I. Have my own set of useful apps I'm content with because I should be using the iPhone! Huh...
Maybe this is true before men start using an Android but I bet you'll find more switching after. I have an Android Droid so I speak from experience.
To me the Android is about where the iPhone used to be early on. Sure it has many of the features but it's buggy and many of the apps will make it either unstable or flat out slow. There is no polish to it at all. The way that Android does multi-tasking is over rated and is one of the reasons it becomes so unstable.
To me about the only real thing it has over the iPhone is that you can load programs outside of the Market Place and Googles turn-by-turn navigation, which by the way doesn't even know where you can or can't makes legal turns.
So as I said I have an Droid but when the iPhone comes to Verizon I'm switching.
Again... polling is a marketing service not science. If you've got tens of thousands of dollars, you can buy a poll from any of the major "respected" polling services right now. Though the political polls cost substantially more.
Why would a polling company just pay people to go out and ask questions about iPhones?
You want an accurate way to measure purchasing demographics for iPhones? Here you go.
Looks like a lot of sausage to me. Takes a bit of $ from an Android manufacturer to try and say otherwise at the start of the holiday shopping season.
You don't think it has something to do with the Terminator-esk advertising Droid has saturated our living rooms with, do you?
Everytime I see a Droid commercial I cringe because of how many suckers I know believe the phones really will turn your arms into robot hands!
Advertising is such a crock, people who let commercials determine what product they buy deserve what they waste their money on. Use your brain & do some research, don't buy into hype. Don't get me wrong, not saying dumb people buy Android phones, just saying people often buy phones not based on what is right for them but on what gets them excited. I know a lot of people who have bought iPhones who really shouldn't have, just cause your friends say it's the coolest doesn't mean it is. I know a lot of Droid users who keep sayin, "If I can just wait for the next android update I know it will lay golden eggs this time, that's what they promised!" Boy I could smack people sometimes.
1) Make a list of what features are important to you.
2) Research professional reviews online for feature highlights
3) Research user reviews for stability & battery performance
4) Buy the phone that is highest rated for the functions you actually need and care about.
For me that was an iPhone, for one of my friends that was an HTC Hero, for another a Blackberry Bold. All 3 of us are very happy with what we got & none of us got what we have just cause it was cool or cause of some ad on TV.
I always love these threads. The denial is so tremendous you could power an entire continent off of it. Same responses over and over again, questioning the polls and statistics when they are the most accurate to date. We all know Android devices outsold iPhone devices, and we all know Android is not the current leader in market share in total OS, but is poised to be with the pace they are selling devices.
Also, is it at all surprising men are gravitating toward Android devices? They work just as good as an iPhone and pack some incredibly high powered cutting edge hardware and features. HDMI? DLNA? Super AMOLED? 4" Screens? 1 Ghz Processors? Oh, and it just works, go figure.
I'm not a statistician, but I can spot bad analysis. It's misleading to say that women prefer the iPhone more than men do because the percentage of women who want an iphone is almost identical to the percentage of men who want an iphone. The only real difference is between people who know what they want and those who don't.
A better conclusion would be to say "where men and women may both be unsure which smart phone they would prefer, men are more likely to eventually choose an Android phone."
Infographics are great, but there is a real danger to misread them.
I always love these threads. The denial is so tremendous you could power an entire continent off of it. Same responses over and over again, questioning the polls and statistics when they are the most accurate to date. We all know Android devices outsold iPhone devices, and we all know Android is not the current leader in market share in total OS, but is poised to be with the pace they are selling devices.
Also, is it at all surprising men are gravitating toward Android devices? They work just as good as an iPhone and pack some incredibly high powered cutting edge hardware and features. HDMI? DLNA? Super AMOLED? 4" Screens? 1 Ghz Processors? Oh, and it just works, go figure.
Some Androids "just work" but definitely not all. An iPhone is an iPhone but not all Androids are equal. Trust me I know, I have to support many different mobile platforms & Android is often a buggy mess on many brands. HTC is about the only brand I think that really rocks, Droid from Verizon being one of the worst.
By the way, KIA sold about 10x the number of cars this year than porsche did, doesn't make a KIA better than a porsche.
There's always a ton of posts just like yours on these threads. iPhone repeatedly wins 1st in screen quality tests among mobile phones and as for HDMI, who the heck cares (as if any of us are plugging our iPhones into the TV to watch HD). As for DLNA, yeah I'm sure you're running into the possibility to use that a lot. Course if that's a feature you kinda like you can also do AirPlay with iPhone. Screen size is really a preference thing & has nothing to do with how good a phone is, personally I don't want a huge phone in my pocket, so sue me. Hardware specs also don't mean much and beefier parts often suck the battery right out of a phone. It's a shame that there are still people that don't understand it isn't about raw CPU power but about system optimization & software. If you think faster CPU & memory always equals better than you understand nothing about technology and should stop embarrassing yourself.
I must commend you though, at least you are honest about your bias...ifail.
ONe survey i can call BS on. IN my country iPhone is a hit and men and women want to have it.
iPhone 4 is super hit in china... in my city, i've seen many people who bought iPhones and i'm yet to see a single android phone... i've never seen or played with android phone yet.
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The other bit of data they fail to mention is that on the Android side of things, this includes ALL Android devices vs iPhones-only.
Granted, there are so very few available Android-OS-based devices that aren't smartphones, but still, they seem to be including those devices in the total sales numbers while they're ignoring 50million iPod touches and ten+ million iPads in the total sales numbers.
Add in iPod touches and iPads and Android isn't anywhere close to outselling iOS devices just yet.
And why would they include the iPod and iPad when it's clear they were doing a smartphone only survey? Last I checked, neither the iPod nor iPad were technically smartphones.
Of all my programmer/engineer/scientist friends who use Android, none of them seem to do anything with the phone that they can't do with the iPhone (I've asked).
So none of your apparently technically oriented friends use desktop widgets like the Facebook widget? They don't use Google Maps Navigation, Gesture Search, Google Voice commands or Skype (if they've got an Android 2.2 phone)? Or wonderful push apps like Google Scoreboard (works well with the window blind notifications of Android)?
If that's the case, then you're right. They should be using iPhones.
No accounting for stupidity!
"32.6 percent of male respondents said they wanted an Android smartphone"
No accounting for stupidity!
Right back at you and your 28.6%!
Right back at you and your 28.6%!
Yes, it should have been much higher, were it not for the stupidity among boys.
So none of your apparently technically oriented friends use desktop widgets like the Facebook widget? They don't use Google Maps Navigation, Gesture Search, Google Voice commands or Skype (if they've got an Android 2.2 phone)? Or wonderful push apps like Google Scoreboard (works well with the window blind notifications of Android)?
If that's the case, then you're right. They should be using iPhones.
"So none of your apparently technically oriented friends use desktop widgets like the Facebook widget? They don't use Google Maps Navigation, Gesture Search, Google Voice commands or Skype (if they've got an Android 2.2 phone)? Or wonderful push apps like Google Scoreboard (works well with the window blind notifications of Android)?" Hmm, neither am I. Have my own set of useful apps I'm content with because I should be using the iPhone! Huh...
I laughed at the title. I thought for sure this was Leslie Neilsen's final joke.
Surely, you can't be serious!!!
To me the Android is about where the iPhone used to be early on. Sure it has many of the features but it's buggy and many of the apps will make it either unstable or flat out slow. There is no polish to it at all. The way that Android does multi-tasking is over rated and is one of the reasons it becomes so unstable.
To me about the only real thing it has over the iPhone is that you can load programs outside of the Market Place and Googles turn-by-turn navigation, which by the way doesn't even know where you can or can't makes legal turns
So as I said I have an Droid but when the iPhone comes to Verizon I'm switching.
Surely, you can't be serious!!!
I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
What was the margin of error?
100%
Again... polling is a marketing service not science. If you've got tens of thousands of dollars, you can buy a poll from any of the major "respected" polling services right now. Though the political polls cost substantially more.
Why would a polling company just pay people to go out and ask questions about iPhones?
You want an accurate way to measure purchasing demographics for iPhones? Here you go.
Looks like a lot of sausage to me. Takes a bit of $ from an Android manufacturer to try and say otherwise at the start of the holiday shopping season.
Don't be a sheep, be a shark.
They're making me question my ManHood.
Don't feel bad - I have always questioned the manhood of iPhone users.
Woman prefer iPhones. So does that mean that Women prefer men with iPhones?
I'll try and break this to you gently - no, it means they prefer other women with iPhones.
You don't think it has something to do with the Terminator-esk advertising Droid has saturated our living rooms with, do you?
Everytime I see a Droid commercial I cringe because of how many suckers I know believe the phones really will turn your arms into robot hands!
Advertising is such a crock, people who let commercials determine what product they buy deserve what they waste their money on. Use your brain & do some research, don't buy into hype. Don't get me wrong, not saying dumb people buy Android phones, just saying people often buy phones not based on what is right for them but on what gets them excited. I know a lot of people who have bought iPhones who really shouldn't have, just cause your friends say it's the coolest doesn't mean it is. I know a lot of Droid users who keep sayin, "If I can just wait for the next android update I know it will lay golden eggs this time, that's what they promised!" Boy I could smack people sometimes.
1) Make a list of what features are important to you.
2) Research professional reviews online for feature highlights
3) Research user reviews for stability & battery performance
4) Buy the phone that is highest rated for the functions you actually need and care about.
For me that was an iPhone, for one of my friends that was an HTC Hero, for another a Blackberry Bold. All 3 of us are very happy with what we got & none of us got what we have just cause it was cool or cause of some ad on TV.
Also, is it at all surprising men are gravitating toward Android devices? They work just as good as an iPhone and pack some incredibly high powered cutting edge hardware and features. HDMI? DLNA? Super AMOLED? 4" Screens? 1 Ghz Processors? Oh, and it just works, go figure.
A better conclusion would be to say "where men and women may both be unsure which smart phone they would prefer, men are more likely to eventually choose an Android phone."
Infographics are great, but there is a real danger to misread them.
I always love these threads. The denial is so tremendous you could power an entire continent off of it. Same responses over and over again, questioning the polls and statistics when they are the most accurate to date. We all know Android devices outsold iPhone devices, and we all know Android is not the current leader in market share in total OS, but is poised to be with the pace they are selling devices.
Also, is it at all surprising men are gravitating toward Android devices? They work just as good as an iPhone and pack some incredibly high powered cutting edge hardware and features. HDMI? DLNA? Super AMOLED? 4" Screens? 1 Ghz Processors? Oh, and it just works, go figure.
Some Androids "just work" but definitely not all. An iPhone is an iPhone but not all Androids are equal. Trust me I know, I have to support many different mobile platforms & Android is often a buggy mess on many brands. HTC is about the only brand I think that really rocks, Droid from Verizon being one of the worst.
By the way, KIA sold about 10x the number of cars this year than porsche did, doesn't make a KIA better than a porsche.
There's always a ton of posts just like yours on these threads. iPhone repeatedly wins 1st in screen quality tests among mobile phones and as for HDMI, who the heck cares (as if any of us are plugging our iPhones into the TV to watch HD). As for DLNA, yeah I'm sure you're running into the possibility to use that a lot. Course if that's a feature you kinda like you can also do AirPlay with iPhone. Screen size is really a preference thing & has nothing to do with how good a phone is, personally I don't want a huge phone in my pocket, so sue me. Hardware specs also don't mean much and beefier parts often suck the battery right out of a phone. It's a shame that there are still people that don't understand it isn't about raw CPU power but about system optimization & software. If you think faster CPU & memory always equals better than you understand nothing about technology and should stop embarrassing yourself.
I must commend you though, at least you are honest about your bias...ifail.
ONe survey i can call BS on. IN my country iPhone is a hit and men and women want to have it.
iPhone 4 is super hit in china... in my city, i've seen many people who bought iPhones and i'm yet to see a single android phone... i've never seen or played with android phone yet.
Surely, you can't be serious!!!
I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
I?m glad someone ran with it.