“I have not conducted a scientific survey on this subject, let alone a statistically significant one. I have only asked approximately 100 people I know who have been Android users for anywhere between one week and two years,” Anton Wahlman writes for TheStreet. “In addition, I have been paying attention to comments from numerous other people on message boards and hearing from friend-of-friends.”
“A few months ago, all of these anecdotes started to develop a clear pattern,” Wahlman writes. “Let’s be blunt and get to the bottom line: A very large share of Android users are unhappy to some degree, and intend to switch platforms either when the iPhone 5 becomes available, or when their two-year contracts expire.”
MacDailyNews Take: De-bunch those panties, Fragmandroid settlers: Scientific data also supports Wahlman’s conclusion. See: Bloodbath: More than one in four Android users, over half of BlackBerry users plan to buy Apple iPhone 5 – September 28, 2011. You know you green-trashcan-heads want iPhones+iTunes+App Store+iCloud.
Wahlman writes, “So what kind of complaints are we talking about precisely? One particular complaint appears to dominate almost completely: battery life. I can’t recall a single Android user I’ve talked to who doesn’t complain in a very angry tone about battery life… Many Android users not only know that they are experiencing unsatisfactory battery life, but also that some of the competing platforms such as iOS and BlackBerry typically offer much better battery life. They know it when they go out for the evening and the Android is dead after three hours or less, whereas the iPhone and BlackBerry devices carried by their friends are still going strong five or 10 hours thereafter.”
“Other complains about Android appear far more scattered and uneven. Some find the interface a bit complicated. Others don’t like the media options when compared to iTunes. Overall system stability and consistency may be an issue. And so forth,” Wahlman writes. “What does all of this mean? It means that outside of the geek world in which users tinker with their devices, many are fed up with poor battery life and perhaps another lesser issue or two, and will switch to the iPhone 5 or other devices within the next two years.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t underestimate iCloud. As more people learn what it is and what it does, they will realize that no platform can remotely match what Apple’s iOS and iCloud offer users.