More and more articles keep citing numbers about how there are more Android units out there than iOS units. Interestingly, there has not been a corresponding presence of user comments calling Android users "sheep". When Apple dominates the market, anyone that owns their phone is a "sheep". Now that Android has taken the lead, I'm anxious to see these same people call themselves and others sheep for owning an Android handset.
This article talks about Android being a volume thing. I couldn't agree more. When I had an Android phone, the OS felt cheap, unfinished, boring, amateurish, rushed, etc. It was functional, but quite a yawner to use. To this day, I don't see what the Android hype is about. Android updates and devices are cranked out at such a break-neck speed that the latest and greatest is irrelevant (if not obsolete) within months.
Then I got an iPhone 4S. Call me a sheep ALL you want. I don't care. The device and the OS are both marvels that I actually enjoy using. It's no longer just a functional thing, it's quite enjoyable to use. A few minutes with the device made me feel like the Android phone I just dumped was a decade old (seriously). Now I DO see what the hype is about with the iPhone.
As to the chairman's remark about developers being "driven by volume", that's nice, but iPhone owners tend to be more educated and affluent, and thus more likely to actually purchase apps instead of only downloading free ones. I'm not saying that nobody purchases Android apps, but Apple leads with paid app purchases. In part, because the iPhone is actually enjoyable to use.
But anyway. I look forward to reading the "sheep" comments by those suffering a massive inferiority complex about their...cell phone...(of all things).