I just read a great article at Gizmodo – great in a sense that its English was flawless; at least, by my standards it was. Also, the fact that they debated the age old iPhone vs. Android topic, which is all the more reason to talk about these two platforms here at this website. According to Gizmodo, iPhone is far superior than Android, while Android products are made for losers who don’t have enough money!

Ouch, that came out wrong, didn’t it? But let’s see what Gizmodo had to say about iPhone’s colossal superiority over Android smartphones, Android tablets – so on and so forth. The story says that when the iPhone came out, the entire world was drawn to it – so much so that no one gave a flea’s ass whether he or she was saying $500 for a measly 4GB edition.

Let There Be an IPhone for All!

Apple got away with setting the price to its own liking. AT&T started selling the “i” device like hot cakes. What mattered here was as long as no one was complaining about how good or bad the entire iPhone product lineup was, everyone was happy. In other words, the iPhone made it to the masses without being ostentatious, without boasting of anything – and ended up making its place in the hearts of millions of red blooded Americans.

Android, on the other hand, is another game. I will touch base with that in just a second. The time when Android OS devices were not famous, the iPhone was sort of like a people magnet. Everyone could relate to it; you started seeing celebrities hauling iDevices around all the time; your boss had an iPhone; your Ex had an iPhone – suddenly you had a REASON to buy this thing.

Hollywood Celebrity Zooey Deschanel Holding the iPhone

It wasn’t just about buying an Apple product; an iPhone was about maintaining your pride and ego, and keeping your nose high in the public. It was, and still to this day, in some way, a phone for status conscious people. From the day Uncle Steve practically gave birth to the iPhone, it has been clearly coveted as a bourgeois object of lust and desire.

And when the time when the iPhone 4’s first prototype model was lost and found later on, it made the device even more famous. People wanted a piece of the action so bad. However, Android happened and along came a lot of disapproving customers who hated Apple because they couldn’t afford it! All of a sudden, these cheapsters had a voice – they didn’t like the iPhone because either it was too expensive it didn’t have that “oh so awesome feature that my friend has in his Android smartphone”.

Android, Anyone? Pwease?

I remember the day when Google’s first Android device was launched. It was a smartphone with a whopping $200 price tag! And this is exactly the day when the entire game plan for Apple and the iPhone was changed. Compare $200 phones with the iPhone; the price is just too god damn right for people who had been bitching about Apple devices being too expensive.

All of a sudden, no one loves iPhone that much. Android, as an Operating System, is easy to work with. Developers loved the idea that there was not much sense of exclusivity, as compared to iOS development environment. Then again, the price factor for an average Android smartphone cannot be ignored.

Android became the household name, while iPhone was only left for loyalists. These so- called loyalists are still all over the world. However, if you compared the Android market against the iPhone market, you will find out that in many instances, the Google OS is dominating. Apple is no longer the only product inventor that could swoon the hearts of its followers.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, experts view Android and iPhone market as:

In the third quarter of 2012, worldwide manufacturers – among them Apple, Samsung, HTC and Research in Motion – shipped 181.1 million smartphones, according to market analytics group IDC. Google’s Android operating system was installed on 75 percent of them, says IDC; Apple’s system, iOS, was on about 15 percent. That market share for Android was a 91 percent jump from the previous year’s third quarter.

Furthermore, we have the NBC reporters, saying that:

[Samsung's] new commercial, titled “Family Photo,” features a mostly African-American family attempting to take a holiday portrait with the new Samsung’s Galaxy Note II…”Family Photo” isn’t the first attempt that Samsung has made to showcase African-Americans in their ads.

Sports Illustrated‘s Sportsman of the Year LeBron James was featured in a series of Galaxy Note II commercials in November that gave a snapshot into Miami’s black urban community. With his Galaxy II in hand, LeBron gives a tour of his day-to-day activities in the ad, which include breakfast in his lavish Miami home, a stop at an urban street food truck, a haircut at the local black barber shop and finally a Miami Heat’s game.

Indeed, Samsung may have the right idea to target African-Americans, who happen to be one of the fastest growing demographic within the smart phone market.

Throughout the entire hoary history of capitalism, Apple is going to be hailed as the once valuable company. Today, things have changed. People like Android more than they like the iPhone. A more realistic picture portrays Apple’s throat being slit by Android – but who’s complaining? Nobody, I guess.

Before closing this article to a morbid period, I would like to ask you one question: Are you an Android bitch or an iPhone bitch? 

Peace.

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