I suffer from mobile device analysis fatigue. Further who are all these analysts that get quoted in these articles? Is that their job to take stock of the mobil

I suffer from mobile device analysis fatigue. Further who are all these analysts that get quoted in these articles? Is that their job to take stock of the mobile space and say things like “One thing that clearly surprised Apple and everyone else was how quickly Android took off,” says analyst Horace Dediu of Asymco, a research firm in Helsinki. Did he talk to Apple? did they call him and say "Horace, this really surprised us." This is just pure speculation and a ridiculous statement.