> Perhaps your peer group encourages conformity to within-group phone norms? :p I’m sure that happens, but I’m surrounded by strong-willed individuals who don’

> Perhaps your peer group encourages conformity to within-group phone norms? :p I’m sure that happens, but I’m surrounded by strong-willed individuals who don’t give a rodent’s behind about what choices I make in mobile platforms. Most people I know use Android. About 30% of the people I know use iOS, but I doubt I had anything to do with their choice for the platform. I also didn’t say that Blackberry isn’t a fine platform, or that it isn’t used anywhere at all. However, in my group of friends, family and a few hundred acquaintances, I haven’t spotted a Blackberry device in the past year.