I mean, how come Apple can produce a computer (cellphone, tablet) that’s both sexy and performant, while others cannot. Are they from another freaking planet maybe? Or is it that Dell / HP / you name it just want to sell us low quality chinese plastic for a helluva fortune?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2835032

why let facts/data ruin a good narrative — “google is lying to us”:

Another data point that highlights the discrepancy between the incredible device activation numbers claimed by Google and actual real-world usage of mobile devices. Example: Flickr’s stats on popular camera phones. Where are these Android phones? How many of them are used for little more than phone calls and texting?

http://www.flickr.com/cameras/apple/ … http://www.flickr.com/cameras/htc/

if you just add up current top 4 models from one (of top 5) android manufacturer, you get 5+ million photos, half the number uploaded by iphone4 (the four models have been on the market roughly the same amount of time as iphone4).

The point I would like to suggest for consideration is that I do recall over the last few years seeing a lot of statistics (and complaints from carriers) where iOS users were hammering their 3g services across the world and iOS users had a several times higher typical data usage compared to Android users.

Here in the UK this got to the point that carriers stopped providing unlimited data plans for iPhones (with the exception of 3), while they currently still sell unlimited data plans for even high end Android devices and include tethering in many of the plans at a lower cost (for a comparable priced phone) than lower end iPhone contracts. There is still an element of what people are prepared to pay but if these Android users suddenly started using a lot of data, they would without doubt modify the plans.

This would seem to me to be a reasonable place to look at evidence for the comparable usage of certain aspects of the smart device across the platforms as a whole. If iOS data usage is still massively higher than that of Android, it would be reasonable to argue that many users are not really using the smart features of the device to the same extent.