“A map plotting the location and device platform of over a quarter billion mobile tweets show predominate use of iPhones in affluent areas and Android in poor regions, with scant representation of Blackberry outside of major cities and its strongholds in Africa, Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“The interactively explorable globe by MapBox, tweeted by Benedict Evans, pairs data from GNIP and Twitter to light up the world one tweet at a time,” Dilger reports. “The resulting image of North and Central America depicts the wealthier, urban [areas] of United States and Canada (above) as lit up in iPhone red, while in some rural areas and south of the border, there’s more Android green and Blackberry purple.”
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Dilger reports, “The same pattern emerges in Europe… In Asia, the pattern repeats again… In closer detail, the same applies to the San Francisco Bay Area (below), where more affluent neighborhoods in Marin and Berkeley and from Silicon Valley to San Francisco appear in bright red while green dominates in poorer neighborhoods: West Oakland, East Palo Alto, Hunter’s Point, Richmond and Vallejo.”
Read more, and see the heat maps, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Android. The poor man’s iPhone.
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