Well, as a developer/hacker, you should care what smartphone the majority of consumers use if you wish to reach the biggest possible audience (as an app develop

Well, as a developer/hacker, you should care what smartphone the majority of consumers use if you wish to reach the biggest possible audience (as an app developer). Even if they are "humourless and prudish". This is more a relection of Steve Jobs taste I think, than of consumers' taste. If you are a hacker (and not an app developer) who has a major problem with Apple's policies, then you are absolutely corrrect; it would be highly hypocritical to both own an iPhone/iPad and hold that view simultaneously.