“We’ve surveyed over 139,000 US smart-phone users about their preferred OS. 64,432 of these people use Android and 50,328 use iOS. The remainder use Windows, Blackberry, or something else,” John Dick reports for CivicScience. “Respondents also answered various combinations of over 28,000 survey questions in our database. When our machines cross-tabulated all of those possible combinations, a number of correlations surfaced that most distinguish an Android user from an iOS user.”
“There is a clear relationship between smartphone operating systems and age,” Dick reports. “Consumers aged 18-24 are 50% more likely to prefer Android. And, while Android leads in every age category but those over age 55, it gets much closer in the 35-54 range. Women break fairly evenly on the question, while men are 15% more likely to choose Android over iOS.”
“The biggest demographic indicator is household income; Android dominates among the least affluent consumers but the higher up the income spectrum you move, the more likely someone is to prefer iOS. People making over $150,000 in annual income are 66% more likely to choose iOS,” Dick reports. “Tall people love iOS. In fact, people who say they are much taller than most people their age and gender are a full 28% more likely to choose iOS over Android.”
“iOS users are tech savvy and charitable. They’re more than 5X more likely than Android users to have made charitable donations online ten times or more,” Dick reports. “Android users have bigger health concerns. In fact, 40% of Android users say someone in their immediate family suffers from heart disease, compared to just 25% of iOS users.”
“When asked about their favorite type of music, iOS users are more likely to pick Alternative music, Indie Rock and Pop/Top 40. Android users are more likely to prefer Country, Classic Rock, and Metal,” Dick reports. “When it comes to their favorite movie genres, iOS users are 20% more likely to choose Drama and 11% more likely to choose Comedy films. Android users are 17% more likely to prefer Action and 21% more likely to prefer Horror films.”
More insights in the full article here.
“Since 2011, the proportion of cell owners who say they own either an iPhone or an Android device have each grown dramatically. Android owners now represent 28% of all cell owners (up from 15% in May 2011), while iPhone owners now represent 25% of the cell owner population (up from 10% in May 2011),” Aaron Smith reports for The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. “Meanwhile, the proportion of cell owners who say they own a Blackberry device has fallen from 10% in May 2011 to just 4% in our most recent survey.”
“Cell phone owners from a wide range of educational and household income groupings have similar levels of Android adoption, but those from the upper end of the income and education spectrum are much more likely than those with lower income and educational levels to say they own an iPhone. Indeed, fully half—49%—of cell owners with a household income of $150,000 or more say their phone is an iPhone,” Smith reports. “And African-American cell owners are more likely than whites or Latinos to say that their phone is an Android device as opposed to an iPhone.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: And they’re ugly, too. 🙂
I’d call any Android device the “Poor Man’s iPhone,” but you have to spend just as much, if not more, to partake in an increasingly fragmented and inferior platform. – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, December 23, 2009
So, logically, the problem must be intelligence deficiency or, to be charitable (after all, we are iOS users), inferior education, lack of wisdom, tech ignorance, or any combination of the three.
Related articles:
IDC data shows two thirds of Android’s 81% smartphone share are cheap junk phones – November 13, 2013
IDC: Android worldwide smartphone market share passes 80% – November 12, 2013
Apple Maps makes killer comeback as Google Maps loses access to world’s most desirable mobile customers – November 12, 2013
Android phones 3 times more likely than Apple iPhones to have been bought at discount store – August 22, 2013
CIRP: Apple iPhone users are younger, richer, and better educated than those who settle for Samsung knockoff phones – August 19, 2013
Twitter heat map shows iPhone use by the affluent, Android by the poor – June 20, 2013
Apple’s iPhone generates more in carrier fees than rival smartphones – January 30, 2013
Unsurprisingly, survey says Apple’s iOS is highest priority among mobile developers – January 23, 2013
People buy more Android phone units and do less with them vs. Apple’s revolutionary iPhone – November 14, 2012
Study: iPad users more likely to buy – and buy more – online than traditional PC users – September 29, 2011
iPhone users smarter, richer than Android phone users – August 16, 2011
Yankee Group: Apple iPhone owners shop more, buy more, remain more loyal vs. other device users – July 20, 2010
iPhone owners more likely to pay for digital content – November 26, 2009
Study: Apple iPhone users richer, younger, more productive than other so-called ‘smartphone’ users – June 12, 2009
Apple iPhone users buy many more apps, surf the Web much more than other ‘smartphone’ users – March 27, 2009
They also have so much time on their hands that they hang around forums like this taunting Apple fans and making fools of themselves
There you have it. Apple fanbois are more insecure, cranky, and peevish than the poor and uneducated Android users. At least the Android users can get smarter and earn more income whereas the Apple fanboi will remain a perpetual ass.
Speak for yourself.
No, as the data bears out, when the Android users get smarter and earn more income, they’ll become iPhone users, too.
No, the data suggests that when you’re young you use android. Everything other ‘fact’ is inline with age demographics.
I’m a fanboy but this has to be the most ridiculous article I have ever seen
insecure, cranky, and peevish are perfect discriptions of the droid user. What your really doing is describing your own insecurities. The droidsheep will always be a jealous insecure asshole
They tend to be ugly too… I know a few.
Me too
Classic example of an Apple fanboy’s superiority complex. So vain, yet too proud to see it.
I’m not jealous. If anything, my phone blows yours out of the water if you’d like to make it a pissing contest. The assholes are, however, those who put themselves on a pedestal because of their choice in smartphone manufacturer. It’s quite petty, but alas, we are a petty people.
Also, droidsheep is amusing, especially considering most of the Android community sees Apple users as sheep, a comparison drawn by the strange affinity for clamoring over year old technology. Your phones are obsolete before they hit the shelves, and yet they still sell out. It’s like Apple doesn’t even need to try to keep you folk happy, they just give you a longer screen and a faster plug and you’re satisfied. That behavior prevents innovation, which is why Apple is being fast left behind. Which is where my pet peeve for Apple users lies. For capitalism to work, it must move forward. Not stubbornly hang out in 2007.
Interestingly enough, please explain samsungs latest and greatest advances in their S5. Do they offer 64 bit technology, and hey I hear they offer a gold color now! Oh, and the camera does what Apple had their’s do last fall! Please explain to me who really is the shepard and who is the sheep?
Go to hell, you self-righteous pricks!
Another ill percieved droid-fan-boy who needs to get a life.
People who use the term “fanboi” are stupid.
At least fanbois can get laid.
MacFreek. Go back to your PC and troll someplace else.
As a long time Apple guy, no fanboy, I appreciate your sometimes objective comments. There are many here (fanboys ) who walk lockstep never thinking for themselves. I understand the cranky and peevish comment. There are some here who never give Apple credit for making the best products also. You forgot to add a comment about them (those who are jealous of those who succeed in life). I find both camps disingenuous. And boring. But I’m not sure how you come up with Android users having a better economic future? Please enlighten us.
That’s easy, if I may step in as a substitute enlightener. Being at the bottom of the economic totem pole, so to speak, they can go no further down. The only direction they can go is up.
Oh, and they have halitosis, too.
Less sex too!
What’s also sad is that the Android crowd doesn’t understand that the profit-generating side of Android is all foreign.
I have a friend who is in California and loves it there. LA, Hollywood, California this, California that, and yet he doesn’t even give the California company a chance because he’s all about specs and benchmarks (which as it turns out, were juiced with secret code put there by the Android phone manufacturers… yeah…).
LOL this one is a little harsh
Being confronted with the truth is often harsh. Just ask any Oblahblah voter.
Hey Mommie! I just insulted the Persident! Can I have a cookie?
Hi there. You seem like an intelligent and superior being. How is it that you only wasn’t to talk politics, as if the political state of our world is any different than it was 100, 200, or even 1000 years ago?
I’ve read over most of your constructs and don’t find them totally without merit. Yet, you seem imbued with the notion that somehow your political rants are worth something. Really, they aren’t, you know. Many over history have espoused what you suggest. Many haven’t. Yet, this old world keeps turning, the sun always rises, and hostility exists between opposing points of view.
I would suggest to you that you relax with a nice cup of coffee and enjoy whatever your creator has put before you. There are scoundrels in all political persuasions. Everyone wants to be right, yet none are.
But a good cup of coffee Man, that can’t be beat.
It’s a freaking phone people. No need to divide.
These are simply demographic facts. And easily replicable, too.
I wish they asked, was it FREE? I believe the FREE Obama phones are Android phones (paid for with our tax dollars). Also, any of those “Buy One Get One Free” could be Android also.
And yet, you are decidedly wrong. You believe that because you have chosen to not investigate for yourself. The free phone program offers only feature phones, have only the barest of communications tools, and were designed to provide basic communications to a number of CITIZENS.
Jersey, I’m sure that you mean well. But take some time to look up histrionics. You may find your picture next to the definition.
BTW- America is a place for all, not just you. Citizenship is not a special club for you and your friends.
FCC: Obamaphone Fraud and Abuse Surpasses Two Million Subscribers
“Payments ballooned from $819 million in 2008 to more than $2.2 billion in 2012.”
Have a nice remainder of this administration, Oblahblah voters. Oh, enjoy the forthcoming GOP landslides, too!
Do you mean GOP landslides like the one in VA where a horribly flawed Democrat beat the Tea Party candidate? Have you already registered the sobriquet F16T18? 🙂
Thirty-nine percent of registered voters say they would vote for a Democrat in their district — and the same percentage say they would vote for a Republican — if elections for the U.S. House of Representatives were held today, according to numbers from a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday.
Last month, Democrats had held a nine-point advantage on the same question, 43 percent to 34 percent.
Independent voters favored Democrats in October, 32 percent to 30 percent, but now favor Republicans by a 37 percent to 26 percent margin.
Obamacare is the gift that keeps on giving for the GOP!
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1976
Yeah, dream on F2K14T2K16- they Repugs are SO popular now, especially following their government shutdown antics…
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2013/10/04#.UoQg96UkM5s
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2013/10/18#.UoQhI6UkM5s
*the
DYAC…
The “Obamaphone” program was created by the Reagan Administration. Sorry to deflate your talking point.
Read the PDF and weep- the Lifeline program was created by Saint Reagan.
Click to access mr98-2.pdf
There is plenty of reason to divide. Android is stolen technology. Those who support stolen technology are thieves themselves.
Fact!
What’s wrong with people who buy iPhone knockoffs?
By SteveJack, MacDailyNews, August 6, 2012
I don’t know which is worse: Samsung’s slavish copying or that there are tens of millions of dullards and/or morally-crippled consumers who would buy such obvious knockoffs. What kind of person rewards thieves, especially such obvious ones? What kind of person hands over their money to make sure that crime pays? What’s wrong with you people, exactly?
It makes me sad that there are outfits like Samsung Electronics on the planet, as I was with Microsoft before them. People who work for Samsung Electronics should be ashamed. It makes me even sadder to see people supporting blatant criminals, whether it be blindly or, worse, knowingly. To those people I say: Get some morals, will you, or how about at least acquiring a modicum of taste?
What you’re doing is supporting criminal activity. It’s like you’re buying knockoff Coach handbags, but you’re paying pretty much the Coach price! Not too smart, eh? Oh, sure, you might have “saved” a bit upfront on your fake iPhone (maybe you got one of those Buy One Get One or More Free deals), but you’re paying the same data rates – after a couple years, you’ve pretty much paid the same anyway! So, in the end, you’re saving little or nothing while:
a) depriving the company who basically inspired your inferior, fragmented product;
b) depriving yourself of the real deal and the real experience, and;
c) rewarding the criminal, encouraging them to steal even more.
Not a lot of sense being made in any aspect of your toting around that Android phone, is there? Oh, right it’s “open.” Smirk. And, yes, every one of us with the real thing knows that you’re carrying around a half-assed fake, you tasteless wonder.
Didn’t you people have parents? If so, what did they teach you, if anything? Sheesh.
Re:”Those who support stolen technology are thieves themselves.”
I own Apple stock and have since 2001. I own a Google Nexus 4. Does that mean I am stealing from myself?
Geez, REALLY?!
It has to be spelled out to you?
You own stock in one company but buy the product from a rival company. You have deprived your company of that small revenue, and you’ve also contributed to the marketing of your rival every time people see you with the rival’s product.
Was that so hard?
Check out the race section. Looks like Android isn’t “Hee Haw” demographic. Try “Ghetto” demographic. But no one would say it because it would be racist, but you hypocrites would still say places like Chicago and Detroit are violent dumps when you wouldn’t even go here. Who’s the “Hee Haw” now, huh? For the record, I am an iPhone user who lives in a very good part of Chicago.
You are misconstruing our use of “Hee Haw demographic.”
We are not referring to a type of people or a location where they live, but, rather, a practice performed by U.S. television networks in the early 1970s to shift from targeting for generic volume to targeting those with the more disposable income.
At that time, advertisers realized that success wasn’t necessarily about the size of a show’s audience but rather the size of their target demographics within the audience. Specifically, they wanted to reach the giant Baby Boomer market and they wanted to make them their customers for decades to follow.
Hee Haw was simply one of the many TV shows that was cancelled from network TV during what is known as the “Rural Purge.” For our purposes, the “Rural Purge” moniker is especially misleading. The TV shows that were cancelled generally contained “rural” themes (Green Acres, Hee Haw, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., etc.), but the point is that we’re not referring to “rural” vs. “urban” when we use “Hee Haw demographic,” we are referring specifically to targeting for volume (Android, Windows PCs) versus targeting those with the more disposable income (OS X, Mac, iOS, iPhone, iPad).
As there seems to be some confusion, we’ve posted a separate article explaining “Hee Haw demographic” here.
I stand corrected.
“I stand corrected”. You live being corrected.
WTF. A man owns up and you keep talking trash.
Still, as a southerner, I am insulted by that term and consider it racist.
Please discontinue its use.
Someone’s always “offended.” What would you like better, the “Gomer demographic?”
Don’t be such a puss.
It’s not only being offended. People demand censorship for potentially offending a hypothetical person.
That’s because a hypothetical person is way more predictable! 😆
Ironic humor, I hope.
How would a name like Hee Haw, even if it was pointing out people of an area in the south, have anything to do with race?
Race has nothing to do with southerners.
Please learn the definition of RACISM before you start playing that card. I hate when people like you have no idea what you are talking about.
Don’t try to reinvent history.. you know what you said.
Wayne:
Saturday, October 26, 2013 – 2:17 pm · “It still won’t be healthy for the ones who live in a suburb, or worse, a Hee haw small town. Everything is WAY too far away for even a simple walk. You are telling me you have to drive ten minutes to the nearest grocery store to get milk? Screw that, I can walk 5 minutes to do that and more! I can go to a theatre, see art, and hear great music all in my fabulous Chicago neighborhood, while you s urbanites and Hee Haw Android settlers have nothing in your boring “neighborhoods”. I doubt your hick towns even have an Apple Store, and you have to get it at Wal Fart or on the Internet, and wait forever for it to come in the mail…oh wait, most Hee Haw small towns have NO Internet. No iPad Air for you, hicks! (Besides, since there is no Internet, an iPad would be practically useless in the boonies)”
You dissed country folk and felt upset when they (and their friends) ripped you a new asshole. You could have avoided this grudge you feel if you weren’t such a prick previously.
Have a good day in your very good part of Chicago.
Amen. Good point.
busted.
Us and Them.
And who’ll deny it’s what the fighting’s all about?
This is NOT about ‘smartphones’.
This is sexist racist elitist CRAP masquerading as ‘research’ to generate hits for plenty of silly websites that have ZERO utility or style, like this one.
Its divisive and reinforces race and sex and wealth stereotypes.
MDN, you should be ashamed. Take this rubbish down and start behaving like human beings.
So why are you here?
One doesn’t have to condone elitism and promote faboyish idiocy to post here.
No, but one must enjoy reading it to repeatedly post.
It’s a study.
And quit being so PC. It’s people like you that make crime reports on any given news station, scared to print the black or white label!
Morons! Get over it.
Derek, if you want to call the shots, go get your own website. You’re not the center of the universe. You should probably learn that.
Tasteless pointless article. Rude.
It’s simply data. Just because you can’t look at it dispassionately doesn’t mean the more mature among us can’t.
Those who doth protest to much are likely those who’ve settled for inferior fragmandroid junk.
People who use the term “fanboi” are stupid.
No, it’s data being spun second-hand into so-called information by MDN.
For example, the MDN headline says that Android users are far less charitable than Apple iPhone users. Whereas the source article actually says “iOS users are tech savvy and charitable. They’re more than 5X more likely than Android users to have made charitable donations online ten times or more.
That’s not quite the same thing. In fact, it’s playing fast and loose with words in a manner that – if it were done by someone like Dvorak or Thurrott – would have us all screaming about ‘click-bait’.
This is a pathetic article about a pathetic survey which we are only seeing because it confirms what MDN’s proprietors would like us to believe about ourselves. Speaking personally, I don’t need to have my choices in technology affirmed and validated by third-parties any more than I need to have my choice in clothes or ice-cream validated by the opinions of others or spurious surveys.
Sounds like similar descriptions of WinDuh’s users.
Two words. Big screens. If Apple had a 5 inch iPhone, Samsung’s sales would collapse. I know only two tech saavy people who chose Android because it is more “open.” Or they won’t admit to Irrational Apple Hatred Syndrome. Everyone else I ask say they chose the phone because of the big screen.
I think Apple will release a large phone (as an additional option). It will be more expensive than 199, but it will come with an way more amazing camera.
Large Android phones will be in trouble, as the new design will have a good 5 years invested in it in R&D.
Alas, that data also pointed out that iPhone users are older. Personally, I’m an old fart myself, but I don’t want a larger iPhone. The SO does, though, for the simple vision reason.
“…you have to spend just as much, if not more, to partake in an increasingly fragmented and inferior platform.”
This quote is from 2009. At that time, we thought that Android would be a platform, but it’s mainly a feature phone replacement. Someone who says, “Hey, I want a phone with a big screen; which ones are free?,” doesn’t want to “partake” in a platform.
Android users are “21% more likely to prefer Horror films.”
LOL, You can’t make this stuff up!
The racist remarks on here are unnecessary and inappropriate. Poverty, in any culture, is always the biggest driver of violence and crime. London, through the ages, has always had high crime areas and the population was almost perfectly white. Slavery, followed by generations of oppression and, even now, appalling racism is the root cause of poverty amongst coloured Americans. Shame, rather than criticism, would be more appropriate.
Amen. My point exactly, almost.
And blacks in America are the biggest racists of all… what’s your point?
Yes, regal us with history on how those darn racist blacks enslaved us poor poor white folk for a hundred years. I’ll wait…
They left out a few questions like tattoos, piercings, preferred drugs……
You can’t make this stuff up lol
Seriously, majority of android users are those who just want a phone.
At least they have a smartphone. Some people I know (in real life too!) still have those feature flip-phones from c. 2006. I am not sure how they survive with that, but to each their own, I guess.
Not really. About 2 thirds of Android phone would be more accurately called feature phones.
I have just such a phone. But it’s because no carrier covers my home area, so I can only use one when traveling. The carriers keep complaining about mountain shadows requiring too many cell towers. On the bright side, we don’t have to put up with repeat DUI’s for the most part; we find them at the bottom of the ravine come spring…
I can’t wait to share this article on google !
I don’t consider anyone who ties themselves exclusively to a single platform to be tech savvy.
I use a bit of everything and try to pick the best tool for the task at hand.
Love it!!
It’s my impression that Android users have dirty fingernails. OTOH, iOS users are more likely to shoplift toothpaste.
Science is fun- facts are optional
I’m by definition poor. I work a job for $13 an hour with 40 hours a week. But I have an iPhone, Mac mini, and Apple TV. I’ve also had MacBooks over the years.
What a Naff Comparison. It shows how uneducated and ignorant the author is really is. Bunch of Naffos!
As a Tall, Rich, White boy, I concur.
They also smell funny and have eyes like Michael Dell.
In the end, it’s about what one can afford to buy. Income inequality is rampant right now, so some people can’t afford the high end Apple products. People need to stop condemning those who can’t afford the more expensive smart phones and understand it about surviving. I have more respect for a people who put the importance on the necessities of life ( food, rent, clothing, & utilities)before an expensive smart phone. Who the hell cares what smartphone someone owns. Be happy at least you have a device that allows you to commumacate with others and can give the opportunity live a better life. Apple or Android at least you have a phone!!!
You are a booger!
No! You are!
Just thought I’d drop in and join the silliness 😉
MacFreek, literary license is antigrammatical, not grammatical. An ad hominem attack is always poor rhetoric, truth has nothing to do with it – a weak argument is a weak argument. I won’t even mention your egregious spelling, the only display of “literary license” I see in your scrivenings, and only one of many reasons your literary license should be suspended, if not taken away.
You add nothing to the conversations here, which certainly doesn’t make you unique, but your profligacy is what I find most disturbing. Too bad you can’t channel some of your verbal vomit in a more productive way. What motivates you to spend so much time irritating people? You remind me of a child who doesn’t care what kind of attention he gets, so long as he gets attention. A child exhibiting that type of behaviour is a child who needs help, and I assume you’re not a child. Do you need help? Is there something missing in your life? Do you get some kind of kick out of reading and re-reading your diarrheic diatribes here?
Please, do us all a favour, get a job, a hobby, a pastime, anything that takes you away from here. How do you find the time, or indeed, the inclination, to post here so often, when you have nothing to add to the conversation? Here is a summary of how many posts you made today, just a sampling, for your own consideration. One solid, thoughtful post would be quite enough, but this?
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Give us a break, please, and perhaps you’ll be doing yourself a favour as well. There’s a whole world out there that isn’t obsessed with “fanbois” (or whichever variant spelling you prefer). And remember this, it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
dmz
Yeah, this is all buncha caca. I means, I’m broke, my truck up an died, I had a women but she met another an pffft she was gone. If it weren’t for bad bad luck I’d have no luck at all. An yet still I got me an iphone. Yessir, it’s a 2g, but still works real good.
My god, feller, there’s a country western song in that post just a dyin’ to break into the Grand Ol’ Opry! Set it to guitar and banjo and it’ll be number one in no time at all!