You seem to be trying to make some kind of wider point about "Android fanboys", and in so doing you're accusing people of making statements about Android sales

You seem to be trying to make some kind of wider point about "Android fanboys", and in so doing you're accusing people of making statements about Android sales that they haven't made, and are irrelevant to the OP. In reality, all I pointed out was that a report about hardware failure should come with statistics broken down by hardware manufacturer. The other "Android fanboys" that you're similarly decrying said the same. Your point would be valid if we were also saying, at the same time, that good and crappy Android phones put together beat Apple. Which we aren't. This isn't about Android "winning" or "losing"; it's about failing hardware, which is highly relevant for anyone selecting a phone, regardless of whatever ideological position one might take WRT smartphone software.