The comparison has nothing to do with the change in their market shares, or who will dominate in the future. I'm purely giving an example of how consumer awaren

The comparison has nothing to do with the change in their market shares, or who will dominate in the future. I'm purely giving an example of how consumer awareness is completely different between nerds and the general population. Just because everyone on HN knows about AIV doesn't mean that the average consumer knows about it. Predicting whether or not AIV will gain consumer awareness is a completely different matter, and I don't think that comparisons between iOS and Android have any place there, since the markets are completely different.