“People who own iPhones use them to watch a lot more video than people who own Android phones,” Peter Kafka reports for AllThingsD. “Twice as much, according to Web video company Ooyala.”
“Ooyala isn’t measuring all Web video everywhere — just the stuff that it serves up via its own service and player,” Kafka reports. “But Ooyala handles a lot of video — it boasts some 200 million unique viewers worldwide — so it has at least some insight into the way people watch stuff.”
Kafka wonders, “Still: Is there something about Android itself that discourages video use?”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Since Android settlers are notorious cheapskates, and since they probably got their phone for “free” during an unending, spiff-laden “Buy One, Get X Number Free” promo, they’ve also likely signed up for the absolute minimum data plan they could possibly get and therefore only watch video when they can find their one true nirvana: Free Wi-Fi. The operative word being “free.”
Good thing you have those big, pocket-defying screens, dummies. Don’t crack open your welded wallets or the moths will flock as you try to enjoy watching your insipid animated wallpaper on them while supporting patent-infringing thieves. Droooooiiiiid.
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