It's Time To Gentrify AndroidIt's not polite to say but here are the facts: Android is used by poorer people and iOS is used by richer people. A Pew survey taken last month bears this out: Android is beating iOS in all income brackets except one. Among users in households that earn $75000 or more a whopping 40 percent identify as iOS users compared to 31 percent who identify as Android users. Compare that to the users in sub-$30000 households--only 13 percent use iOS while 28 percent use Android. Android is popular because it's cheap not because it's good wrote Sam Biddle for Gizmodo earlier this year about the reason for the success of Android phones. But that's changing. The HTC One and especially the contract-free version of the One released this month with stock Android like Google intended is good. It might be the best phone I've ever used. The tide is turning and that means one thing.It's time for rich people to gentrify Android.Android is the formerly bad neighborhood that brokers are starting to describe as up and coming. Rents were cheap--you could snag a phone for free or for $50 or $100 with a two-year contract. You could get an Android phone on whatever network you want including those that deal significantly or even primarily to lower-income customers like T-Mobile or Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) like MetroPCS Boost or Virgin Mobile who rent tower space from other larger networks. You could get a buy-one-get-one-free deal on a phone. That's why the lower-income set opts for Android over iOS.The iPhone is for rich people not necessarily because it's more expensive; a current-generation iPhone costs as much and sometimes less than a current-generation top-of-the-line Android phone. But it came first and so it grabbed the money and loyalty of the early adopters who are by definition rich folks--it initially cost a whopping $500 and it remained pricey for a few generations. And its advertising focused on its premium materials its high-end manufacturing processes and its fancy (paid) apps. Apple successfully marketed the iPhone as high-end.But even bad neighborhoods have strengths. Android has flexibility iOS doesn't; there's only one iPhone but there are dozens of Android phones at any given point. You have space to stretch out if you want it. And slowly Google and the Android hardware makers are realizing what landlords and shop owners in up-and-coming neighborhoods realize: your profit margins are an awful lot bigger when you sell to rich folks.The HTC One with its big gorgeous aluminum body its vivid and spacious screen its wildly superior versions of GMail Google Maps and the Chrome browser its voice control that crushes Siri in every way possible and its genuinely futuristic and exciting Google Now is a perfect trigger for Android gentrification. It's a badass affordable loft in a neighborhood you'd been eyeing but couldn't quite bring yourself to move to. That makes it different from the other top-tier Android phones on the market like the Samsung Galaxy S IV a more-of-the-same sequel to a phone we didn't much like last year. iPhone users might look at a Galaxy S and think Why ditch my comfortable luxurious iPhone ecosystem for a chintzy plastic Samsung phone with desperately overstuffed featuresets? It'd be like moving from a comfortable old brownstone to a brand-new spacious apartment in an up-and-coming neighborhood...that's made with paper-thin drywall and the cheapest possible kitchen appliances. And a clothes dryer that singes your underwear. But the HTC One changes all that: it's something new and perhaps even better.Android phones are now a legitimate option for the wealthy. And as the rich people come to Android the apps will follow just as the organic grocery stores and adventurous Japanese fusion tapas restaurants come to gentrifying neighborhoods. A smartphone ecosystem is not unlike a neighborhood: when that 31 percent percent of $75000+ households rises to 40 percent you can bet the New Yorker will hurry a little bit harder to bring its digital magazine to Android. What happens to the lower-income types when Android starts marketing more heavily to the wealthy? I'm not sure. Maybe nothing! Just because there's previously un-accessed profit to be made on the high end of things doesn't mean manufacturers will stop catering to the (also profitable) lower end. There are hardware manufacturers who have shown no interest at all in the more premium side of the business like ZTE Kyocera and Haier. Or maybe another platform like Windows Phone or BlackBerry will start marketing more heavily to the lower-income segment.But assuming the HTC One sells well this could be the first major step towards Android gentrification. Some day the rich kids who've grown up with Android will look back at the HTC One. That was when my parents knew that Android was safe they'll say.Customer accumulated data bases making bold assumptions about people are a perspective of technology will constantly grow in both the civilian and government view.I find some of the above assumptions completely absurd but I am sure somebody is looking over some data base somewhere to make these assumptions.There could be a large PoPSCi article written about this topic itself.Besides NSA listening to all communications of everyone real time I am sure they are developing data bases on individuals in hopes of guessing their next move too.I'm a Apple/iPhone and would really like to get the HTC1 my coworker has it and I really like the feel of it. The only thing I can think that I will miss from iPhone is the Photo Stream but even that I hardly use.Have any of you switched from the iPhone maybe you guys can help me switch.ThanksI don't doubt the statistics regarding income but the vast majority of fellow Android users I know chose the platform not because of the cost but because they abhor the arrogance of Apple and the Don't tamper with the perfection we've created mentality that they apply to their (lack of) configurability.The bottom line is that Apple makes undeniably beautiful hardware geared to users who would rather be passengers driven through the technological countryside as opposed to grabbing the wheel themselves for a truly personalized and open user experience.Android has a huge problem to solve before any real progress can be made in getting more upscale users - security.ALL of the mobile viruses are on Android and more every day.  Combined with vendors being reluctant to update the system this makes using Android dangerous for non-technical people - and the more well off you are the more you have to lose in terms of a virus getting into a bank account or something else.Another reason why more well off users are using Apple products is it's simply where the apps are.  There are a lot more high quality applications on iOS than on Android and it makes a lot more sense to buy a platform for the software you want to use rather than the operating system.I recently switched from an iPhone 5 to the HTC One. I am very pleased so far. One responder mentioned Photostream HTC One (Android) also has the option to sync all of the photos you take to the cloud create albums and share photos. The shouldn't be much of a concern. At my house we did some printing from our iPhones. After switching to Android I have found that Google Cloud Print is much nicer. I can print from anywhere I am (not just when I'm connected to my home network). It requires a little bit of configuration to get things to your individual tastes but once you've done that the experience can be much more rewarding and personalized than with iPhone. I was an early adopter of iOS 7 (mobile developer) and I really didn't like the direction the OS was going in. I preferred a bit of skeuomorphism and felt that it made things a bit more intuitive. This is really what lead me to take the plunge and try something different (I've been using iPhones since the original iPhone came out).kgelner-name anyone you know have heard of anywhere at anytime in the US who has ever ever got a virus on Android. Stats from virus scanner software doesn't count people who pirate apps don't count people in Russia an China don't count. Ask around. Post it on your favorite social media site and ask. Go ahead I dare you. FUD pure and simple.As for money I spent $450 cash for my Nexus 4 and know a few hundred thousand who did likewise. The pure Android Galaxy 4 and HTC One cannot be purchased from a a carrier and run $599+. There are people who are willing to buy them at that price.  Meanwhile the IPhone 4 and 4S can be had on contract for <$50. In fact when the IPhone 5 was released the 4S became a big seller because of the price drop. Don't believe me take a look at Apples earnings reports from that quarter. Their margins took a hit because of the increase sales of the 4S. At Christmas Walmart was selling 4S for $47 with 2 year contract. Lots of rich people jumped on it at that price based on what I read on Apple Insider. A majority of Iphone users I know either got them as hand-me-downs or for $50 or less.I prefer Android because I can make my phone mine not some companies vision of what I want. If I have nearly $500 to spend on a phone and didn't choose Apple I'm obviously not doing so because I don't have the cash. Many of us choose Android because we actually want to not because we have to.You CAN'T compare iOS with android on a socio-economic scale because android includes several brands that range in price and functionality vs iOS which is one brand of phone.  It's absurd and elitist.  And just because someone may spend more money on one product over another doesn't mean that product is superior.  I don't recall any high end android phones having any major defects with their antenna's or mapping capabilities.  Everyone knows apple has exceptional marketing.  They have succeeded in getting tech-ignorant people to buy products with outdated and sometimes faulty components.  Shit in a pretty package will always be just that...shit in a pretty package.Apple is a hollow name brand that has sacrificed its credibility for obscene margins (i.e. the difference between what is being charged and the value of the product delivered to the customer).
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Android developed a visionary OS that hardware is now able to fully match -- meanwhile Apple's limited OS is falling way behind the times (widgets themes custumizations).  If you want to see what this can look like peruse www.mycolorscreen.com.
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As far as Samsung goes it is much better built than journalists would have people believe and once you go AMOLED you will never go back to LCD.my buddy's sister-in-law makes $70 every hour on the laptop. She has been out of a job for 9 months but last month her paycheck was $16749 just working on the laptop for a few hours...... www.bay9Ú­5.cÚ­oÚ­mWith the exception of the spammer preceding this comment the quality of commentary on PopSci is very high. I have to admit that the claims in this article are true but only in a vague general sense. As has been pointed out Android runs on hardware ranging from nearly free to $600+. I believe this variety fosters an analogous range in the socio-economic class of users. Android's greatest fault isn't its perceived complexity (versus iOS) or its insecurity but rather the fragmentation allowed by Google. Device makers are allowed to change the ROM and other features of the OS to suit their hardware (perhaps even preferences) all while having no obligation to roll out the latest Android version. I think it's this fragmentation that creates the notion of it being unsecured and difficult to use. If Canonical can create a fluid user experience with its Ubuntu mobile OS while preventing hardware makers from altering that interface I think they'll be able to take the middle ground in the smartphone market.This entire is based upon conjecture and fallacy quite disappointing actually.  On the flipside most of the comments here are spot-on couldn't agree more.
My 'ancient' Galaxy S2 modified to my tastes and recently updated to Android 4.2 blows away my buddies vanilla iPhone 5 in almost all regards period.  I haven't upgraded not because I can't afford to but simply because I don't HAVE to.I had a Sony Android fone but got worried by the inability to update the OS. Sony rubbed my nose in it by promising that an update was due later that year but after 2 years I knew they were lying in their teeth.
So in spite of having a limited pensioner income I saved up over nearly a year and bought an iPhone 5. Some of its quaint ways are bloody irritating but overall it's sweet-as. There's a steady stream of updaters both for iOS and and the 100*-odd apps & games that I have installed usually for small-change fees. I know that somewhere out there somebody cares.  ;^)
Living in a walled garden beats the hell out of being trapped in a mausoleum.* sheesh! is it really that many?!! 8-0----
Kiwiiano... I'm right 98% of the time so who cares about the other 3%?just before I checked out the bill of exchange of $5122 I did not believe that...my... brothers friend was actualey receiving cash part-time from there new portable computer.. there dads pal has been doing this for beneath fifteen months and recently cleard the morgage on their appartment and bourt a brand new Ford Focus. we have a tendency to looked here...... wÚ­wÚ­w.bÚ­aÚ­yÚ­9Ú­5.cÚ­oÚ­mThanks you for such an informative guide
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