“We run lots of consumer surveys at PCMag, but today’s edition of The Why Axis is the first in a series of countrywide maps we’ll be running each of the next few Mondays to break down tech buying and usage trends across the nation,” Rob Marvin reports for PC Magazine. “We figured a good place to start is seeing which states are more loyal to Apple devices, and which states house more Android people.”
“PCMag surveyed 2,033 US consumers in February on a variety of tech topics, gathering additional demographic data including state-by-state,” Marvin reports. “While the most recent comScore rankings show Android at 54.2 percent market share in the US and iOS at 44.8 percent as of December 2018, our survey found that only 14 states were predominately Android users compared to 36 for iOS.”
“Overall, 54 percent of respondents chose iOS as their smartphone OS of choice, 42 percent chose Android, 2 percent chose Other, and 2 percent chose None,” Marvin reports. “The states where Android won out in our survey were primarily less populous ones, including Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, and Wyoming. The states with the highest percentages of Android users were Wyoming at 66 percent and Hawaii at 61 percent… For iOS, the most popular states were Connecticut at 73 percent of respondents, Missouri at 72 percent, and Mississippi at 71 percent. In the states with the highest populations densities, the races were a bit tighter, but iOS still wound up with sizable leads. In California and New York, iOS had 58 percent in both states to Android’s 40 percent in CA (2 percent other) and 37 percent in NY (5 percent other.) Illinois was even wider at 63 percent for iOS and 33 percent for Android (4 percent other.)”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: One very important finding was that 70% of respondents ages 18-24 use Apple’s iOS, while in the older 55-64 age range, 49% settle for Android, with a nearly equal percentage (47%) using iOS.
One platform’s future is obviously far brighter than the other’s.
In one of our local high schools, out of roughly 300 students who are known to have a cellphone, three (3!) are known to not have an iPhone (two Androids of unknown make (that the kids hate and keep well-hidden) and one flip phone to be used only for emergency calls). All of the rest have iPhones. Quote from a student: “It’s really bad to be green in Messages.” — MacDailyNews, April 11, 2018
SEE ALSO:
82 percent of U.S. teens use an iPhone – and that number is only growing – April 11, 2018
Higher income U.S. states use Apple iPhones; lower income states use Samsung Galaxy phones – September 27, 2016
Poor man’s iPhone: Android on the decline – February 26, 2015
Study: iPhone users are smarter and richer than those who settle for Android phones – January 22, 2015
Android users poorer, shorter, unhealthier, less educated, far less charitable than Apple iPhone users – November 13, 2013
IDC data shows two thirds of Android’s 81% smartphone share are cheap junk phones – November 13, 2013
CIRP: Apple iPhone users are younger, richer, and better educated than those who settle for Samsung knockoff phones – August 19, 2013
iPhone users smarter, richer than Android phone users – August 16, 2011
I’m actually quite surprised that there’s a lot of iPhone users in the Trump MAGA hat states.! Thoughts for sure that those ‘billies would be using that Android crap. I still think NYC is the greatest city in the world, so I won’t give flyover country the benefit of the doubt just yet.
Duh. Why would that be? Trump supporters are for the free market capitalist system, probably more apt to be entrepreneurs, smarter, most likely going to school for higher education, wiht even independent women thinkers,,, rather than democrat sheep following the crowd and taking DNC talking points and marching orders and believing CNN and PMSNBC FAKE NEWS, running with no proof of anything wrong that Trump has ever done. ? Are you going to be one of the lib followers who’s face is going to cave in when it is found that there is truly no collision? Are you going to admit this is a deep state witch hunt and thirst for power? Are you an AOC follower? Socialist? With all your supposed brain power? what a foolish thought. Grow up, what a dumb comment. thanks for the laugh. Bet you voted for the criminal Hillary or thought Obama truly deserved his Nobel Peace Prize. What a joke.
You wouldn’t recognize a free market, capitalistic system if you lived in one and you don’t.
By the way. Spare us your sanctimonious bullshit.
You are a sanctimonious, f’ing idiot.
… that the “X” in your name stands for excrement.
Well, the brain trust showed up.
Hate to rain on your parade, Jr, but Mr. Trump only beat Ms. Clinton in ten of the fifty most highly educated counties in the US.
Ms. Clinton only beat Mr. Trump in seven of the fifty least educated counties. Of those, five have a Hispanic majority and two an African-American majority.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-predicted-who-would-vote-for-trump/
In the modern world, “education” most often means “been to school a lot” as opposed to education
…..speaking as one who is fighting the battle in the “education” system.
You may be right, TKD, but I was specifically responding to Jr’s claim that Trump supporters are “most likely going to school for higher education.” That is demonstrably untrue.
There’s nothing about living in flyover that automatically disconnects one from reality. I’ve loved my Apple products for years even though some of its users occasionally make obnoxious and ignorant comments about other users based solely on where they choose to live or choose to vote for. And remember, there are few greater proponents of Apple products than Rush Limbaugh.
New York is the shit hole state of the nation
Yay! I live in AppleLand! I’m so glad the Land of 10,000 Lakes can also call themselves the Land of 10,000 iPhone Users! (Oh, wait…)
Wow astonishing, all I long we thought that Android has sold more phones than iOS, market shares of Android is higher than iOS due to cheaper price smartphones. However, it’s good to know that iOS users are way more beyonds than Android.
Well, when you take a sample size of 2033 individuals to remark on an entire country and divide by States, you get wildly different results.
Didn’t get the memo. I live in an Apple State, I vote Blue, and my S10+ is coming on Friday.
Oh well, I guess I will be shunned….
PS- Unlocked and purchased outright.
Voted Blue and bought an S10? Please stop voting and breeding. Your kind has already done too much damage to our country.
grow up
Says the sanctimonious, f’ing idiot. LOL!
grow up
Darwin called. Said he’s waiting for you.
Don’t you mander Gerry. We know your kind.
Trust us we already knew you were a liberal and used Android.
Since we are branding people, I put in my contribution.
Sample size is too small to have this be a meaningful study. I am no statistician but just sayin. 2033 persons in each state would have been better.