"Why is this considered an amazing insight? If you could get an iphone on more than one carrier there might actually be something to discuss here." A year ago

"Why is this considered an amazing insight? If you could get an iphone on more than one carrier there might actually be something to discuss here." A year ago I decided to embrace Android (as a user and as a developer), a principal reason being that it was obvious that the inertia that was going to grow behind it would be huge: The iPhone was so enormously successfully against a litany of foes, that it was obvious that those foes would have to converge on some sort of counter-attack, and Android was there at the right time and place, with the right openness, ability for customization and differentiation, and technology stack. So I paid attention to the arguments that took place. To say they were completely the opposite of what you and others are now saying is not exaggerating. Android was doomed, we were told, for any of countless reasons. The iPhone was secure in its pending world domination. Now of course the argument has changed, over the past quarter absolutely doing a 180. Now it's just all so obvious, right, with so many makers and so many models and so many options against just one itsy bitsy little phone (you know....like Symbian and J2ME, or even the Blackberry, but...well...ignore those because they don't fit the narrative). The new argument you're supposed to embrace is the "iPhone is for the elite, while Android is for the poor, what with their two for one discounts and low-end phones", while filling out and eagerly consuming self-selecting surveys that comfort that ridiculous notion.