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Gentlemen Prefer Androids, Ladies iOS
Ponca City writes "PC World reports that women are more likely to buy an iPhone for their next smartphone purchase, while men prefer Android devices. According to data collected in October 2010, 31 percent of women wanted to buy an Apple iOS device next, followed by 22.8 percent interested in a Google Android device while among men preferences were reversed with 32.6 percent of men interested in an Android purchase and 28.6 desired an iOS phone. 'So where is the extra appeal of Android to men coming from?' asks Tracey E. Schelmetic. 'More male-targeted commercials that emphasize cool gadgetry versus usability? More techno-macho phone brand names like "Droid"? Extra advertising on the Spike channel by phone makers using the Android platform?'"
That Verizon's splashy "Android devices are death-robots from the future who can tear you to shreds with a single shot from their massive feature lists" campaign might have had something to do with that. And then you get into the fact that Apple has been producing devices with off-the-charts WAF for ages now...
So where is the extra appeal of Android to men coming from?
Uh, its right there in the name - android as in greek for man.
If they wanted chicks to buy them they should have called then gynoids.
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android is for porn remember????
Because the Android isn't about ME.
Think of the naming conventions used
"i"Phone, about the individual (although one could easily argue it is a controlled environment brought on by monopolistic practices)
Droid, autonomous device that empowers the user through its open architecture.
Of course I could be one sided, as (DISCLAIMER) I have a Droid.
Males tend to be more tech-savvy.
Oh, before you mod me flamebait, correlation != causation.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
31 vs 32.6 falls within the unspecified margin of error for that "survey".
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A: Coming out to your parents
Leaving the gender distinction alone, more people want an iPhone next than want an Android. Yet right now, Android is selling more than iPhone. The reason for that that distinction is obvious. Price. Some people settle for second best.
My wife isn't interested in playing with configuration settings, tweaking this, adjusting that and so on. A simpler UI, that does what she wants it to do, and no more, is what she's looking for.
I don't see how you need much more common sense to be able to operate a Droid in comparison to an iPhone. They're nearly identical.
I think part of the draw for Android is that you can tweak and customize it more. And I don't just mean installing a custom OS. Also just customizing it with widgets and other stuff. Even just the stock "customizations" of manufacturers, like SenseUI and all those others. Android is pretty powerful and flexible there. And I suspect men are on average slightly more likely to tinker with their phones than women.
So many jokes and satire... so little space.
Real men just shout loud enough that whoever they want to reach, can hear them.
And they don't get lost, so they don't need no stinking GPS either.
My guess is, that it is for the same reasons Macs suit women, gays, and/or artists.
Sorry if it is a cliché, statistically bound, by the way.
And those man who are not that insecure that they need to announce their manhood by their choice of "masculine" gadgets...
Years ago cigarette companies conducted a survey of doctors and brands they preferred. They advertised the brand they preferred as doctor recommended. I was not so much that doctors necessarily preferred any of the brands, but if one does a survey and sorts the results, one will have top and a bottom, though it may have no statistical or physical meaning.
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What about males who aren't gentlemen and females who aren't ladies?
(you insensitive clod)
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Would you use a cell phone OS made by an advertising company? I only have a lowly call-and-text phone, but if I were buying a smartphone I'd avoid Android like the plague. I don't care how open their app development is; I want to know they're not mining my text messages and emails....
If you actually pivot the data, though, you see that while Android preferers are vastly on the male side, iOS preferers are split pretty much 50/50. In other words, it's not that "women prefer iOS" so much as it's that Android only seems to appeal to males while iOS is balanced closer to what would be expected from a random sample.
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Maybe naming it the "iPad" wasn't so dumb after all....
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I loved Symbian on my N95, I hated it on the N97, I am now back in love with Symbian^3 on the N8. I am willing to say this is the best cell phone I have ever had bar none. I have an N900, but don't consider it a cell phone. The N900 is a linux tablet with a phone app.
Back to cell phones. The US press seems to forget Symbian exists, is rock solid stable, ans is very clean and fast. Symbian was fast on a 60 mhz processor, and literally screams on the N8. For once I would like to see a review written by some one that is used to Symbian instead of an iPhone user complaining how it is different than his beloved Apple product, or some such similar from and Android Fanboi.
Nokia has made some very bad management decisions in the last few years, but their engineer elves have been busy. The N8 really is the best cell phone, both hardware and software that Nokia has ever produced and deserves a close look.
I am glad I didn't listen to "Symbian is dead" and bought an N8.
I love it.
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Well according to , iPhone users have more sex. Doesn't say if it's straight sex, but it's a pretty significant difference.
Exactly.
To repeat what TFA said, 31% of women want an iPhone and 22.8% want an Android. In order to determine if this difference is statistically significant (alpha = 0.05, beta = 0.2) they'd have needed to ask 508 women.
Did they really? Who knows. There's no confidence interval. Maybe they asked everybody.
Masturbating to a video of Steve Jobs on your iPhone doesn't count.
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Any logical argument is only as good as the assumptions which went into it. I'm not saying that logic and quantitative analysis are useless, but they are never perfect or complete. A reasonable person must take emotions when making decisions. And if you are a human being, your emotions influence your decisions, so if you don't realize that you are in denial (which is highly illogical). You are every bit as guilty of making snap judgements as any woman if you don't realize that.
As a side note, I've never seen an iPhone user change their mind about their purchase. Ever. I don't believe that everyone I know who has an iPhone (inculding myself, and my entire immediate family) is an overly emotional nutcase.
Having more sexual partners doesn't mean more sex.
It just means if you have an Iphone you have a greater chance of getting STDs :)
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When I commute every morning, I'm always surprised at how much men have iPhones and ladies have Blackberries. This may very well be a local thing (I live in Paris, France), but from my own casual observations, this is a firm trend here.
In my humble opinion, it's because iPhones are very expensive even tied to an operator contract, while BBs have been marketed aggressively at quite low prices. It seems men are more likely to shell out money on nice toys, women are more responsible with the family budget.
Now, I shouldn't make any generality out of it, but I think this study isn't to be taken as absolute truth either.
I thought women liked them bigger?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
I'm glad that there are one or two people around here who can actually look at statistics with a bit of sense.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Ah, sexism and fanboyism all in one. Nice.
Gentlemen prefer Ladies, Androids prefer iOS
There, that looks much better.
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Yes, it is a PC. Not a Windows PC based on the IBM PC, but it is a Personal Computer. It just usually doesn't have a keyboard. Although, sometimes it does. Expect to see the lower end Macs to get phased out, as the iPad with keyboard attachment gains traction.
Oh really? Why can I name at least two friends who's iPhone's stopped working until they had a clean OS restored? On one of the phones the WI-FI broke, and the other the voice calls entirely stopped working.
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If she get's an iPhone she knows she can be on her own. It's not a fucking PC, it doesn't need a fucking support department. Android might need a factory reset and restore every once in a while. iPhone doesn't.
If you like iPhones that's your perorgative, but if you honestly believe the marketing slogan "it just works", you're brain dead.
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Apparently you didn't read your own link. While the guy is an obvious fanboy, and spends most of the short article making excuses for Apple not supporting their products for the long haul, even he says that MacOS is likely to disappear. He thinks it is 10 years off, but that doesn't change the fact that he describes the fate of OSX as "all good things must come to an end".
You are half right that the iPad+keyboard and the MacBook are not serving the same market. The same as a eeePC and an Alienware M17x are not serving the same market. That doesn't mean they are not both PCs.
The iPad is obviously designed for light computing. The addition of a keyboard is obviously a move to add to the amount of weight the iPad can carry. Whether you want it to be, or whether Apple want's it to be, the iPad is and will be for a growing number of people, a replacement for a PC.
Of course, Apple would be stupid to not want that. On the Mac, anyone can develop and sell software without giving Apple a cut of the action beyond the purchase of the computer. On the iPad, each and every sale means money in Apples pocket. It is an obvious move that I am really surprised MS didn't do with the Xbox.
Don't expect the big macs to go away. They will just be sold as workstations. Probably with the kind of price increase one would expect of a 'Workstation'. It is the lower end Macs that will dry up. The Mac will become the Dev kit for iPads. Apple is in the process of shifting from the PC pricing model to the console pricing model.
FUD. My Nexus is loaded up with apps and isn't sluggish at all.
Information wants to be beer.
That's what we call in the trade an embedded device, not a PC.
The definition of an embedded device would disagree with you:
An embedded system is a computer system designed to perform one or a few dedicated functions often with real-time computing constraints.
As opposed to:
By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal computer (PC), is designed to be flexible and meet a wide range of end-user needs.
Which one sounds more like a smartphone? Embedded Device