“There’s a dirty little secret about Android devices that most manufacturers are facing: the return rate on some Android devices is between 30 and 40 percent, in comparison to the iPhone 4′s 1.7% return rate,” John Biggs reports forTechCrunch.
“[Samsung’s] Galaxy S II sold 3 million in 55 days, a strong showing,” Biggs reports. “However, on the ground, many return rates are approaching 40% said a person familiar with handset sales for multiple manufacturers.”
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“Why? For the ‘average’ phone user, Android is a maze,” Biggs reports. “Anecdotally, I’ve heard of multiple examples of folks who bought an Android phone in order to ‘Think Different’ and came away disappointed when faced with the glaring differences between Android and a friend’s iPhone or Blackberry.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you don’t have an iPhone, well, you don’t have an iPhone.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]