Any time I would listen to a tech podcast, they’d discuss Apple/its products for a majority of the time, despite OSX having less than 20% market share (and iOS having like half of Android’s as well). But obviously since their products are the priciest as well as the most “”“prestigious”“” they deserve an inordinate amount of attention and hype.
Android being a Google product isn’t a good thing. They’re horrible on privacy and obviously an evil company. Apple sucks because they lock users into their ecosystem and force them to buy hardware they shouldn’t need at a premium price. I don’t know enough to verify this, but it’s my understanding that you can actually achieve the highest level of privacy using certain custom Android ROMs on the right hardware. Plus you have more freedom as a consumer in how you use the software and choose your hardware.
I think the real takeaway I have is that brand loyalty is for chumps
Google sucks, obviously, but I only had Android smarphones and I pirate all the apps without jailbreaking or using fancy roms. 4pda.ru is a great site full of roms and patched and moded apps and what not with great moderation so you don’t install malware. The biggest obstacle to pirating apps on Android in my experience is the whole software as service thing.
The point I was making is that like, general (nominally non-apple focused) tech journalists and enthusiasts spend tons of time talking about apple, tips for apple users, etc despite them being a pretty tiny minority.
