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>Next to no one uses Android Wait, what? Who's in the bubble now?

• scrollaway 4y ago
  American bubble. US people don’t realise the world runs on Android.
  • Entinel 4y ago
    This is the answer here. I believe iOS wins the US but world wide Android has a 72% market share.
    • bobbyrullo 4y ago
      Even in the US it's like 45% Android, so "no one uses android" is absurd in any context.
      • rubatuga 4y ago
        Maybe OP is saying nobody important uses android
      • chihuahua 4y ago
        "I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him." - famous quote from 1972
    • stocknoob 4y ago
      You need to multiply the market share by the wealth of the participants. What fraction of the world’s wealth (easier to measure than influence) runs on Android? Elon using iOS has more influence than how many impoverished billions? This is why German and Japanese are often localized before other languages with more speakers. Not saying it’s right, but just pointing out the reality. The world runs based on the decision makers, who use iOS.
      • killingtime74 4y ago
        Lol. If you want to talk wealth, then it doesn’t matter again because people with enough money have multiple phones, iOS and Android.
      • vineyardmike 4y ago
        > Elon using iOS has more influence than how many impoverished billions? Does he buy that many phones? /S I agree with your point, but catering to luxury users certainly has an advantage. Android, globally, is doing ok.
  • simplotek 4y ago
    > American bubble. US people don’t realise the world runs on Android. It's not even an American bubble. Some sources show that the iPhine market share in the US is only slightly above 50%. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/north-america https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/north-amer...
    • koube 4y ago
      This could be a regional experience. Some states have 70% apple market share, with Rhode Island having 80%[0]. The difference could be even greater for smaller regions within a state. [0]: https://deviceatlas.com/blog/mobile-os-popularity-by-us-state https://deviceatlas.com/blog/mobile-os-popularity-by-us-stat...
  • godelski 4y ago
    If Android users are roughly 50% in the US, then the likelihood of knowing zero people that use Android is quite small. We can think of this as roughly each of your friends tossing a coin and all of them landing heads. If they do, that's a pretty biased bubble (because it isn't a pure random process, but you also don't have a representative and random sample)
    • mike_d 4y ago
      > If Android users are roughly 50% in the US, then the likelihood of knowing zero people that use Android is quite small. If you mostly associate with people who are on pre-paid cell phone plans they got at Walmart or a gas station, you'll see a high concentration of Android. Among people who are in technology or often purchase luxury goods, most your friends with have iPhones.
      • TheHappyOddish 4y ago
        Is this downvoted by salty Android users, or actually disagreed upon? Obviously it's a bell curve - not all Android users are cheap and not all iPhone users are luxary goods providers, but my experience (Australia) reflects this generalisation broadly.
    • charcircuit 4y ago
      The statistics of a population are not unifrom across it's subpopulations.
      • mikymoothrowa 4y ago
        especially because of this whole imessage/rcs thing, your friends are extremely more likely to be using the same OS as you.
• college_physics 4y ago
  The fact that somebody writing on HN doesnt know this shows you how low information the world really is. We generally assume too much about the shared knowledge basis. There would be much less friction if we could improve on that
• anifru 4y ago
  I thought it was clear the poster was talking about their daily life, and not commenting on world statistics.