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First off, brevity is one of the signs of a great writer. Use less to communicate more. You win or lose people in the first paragraph or two. Also cursing is a terrible way to make a point. It shows anger – you come across angry. Why u mad bro? Make your point without emotion. Let your point make itself.

Second – regarding product launches, the iPad mini is widely seen as taking away from other iPad sales in a pure revenue standpoint. I’d like to see more comparison for your point to be valid to me. Right now it just seems very fanboyish. You have some valid and good points, they’re just hidden in emotional outbursts and one-sided graphics.

Nilay was disappointed. He expected more. That says a lot, and if you look at the hype meter, it’s way off of Apple standards.

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You posted about a beta – suggesting that you need Android updates to get new features. Why else would you want a beta except to get access to new features earlier and make them better through testing?

Since new features are rolled out via the Play store now, major Android releases matter much less. I think the things we’ll see in future Android releases are enhancements instead of wholesale changes. You’ll see those behind the scenes for things like what they talked about at I/O.

Apple has a paradigm of updating only with iOS updates – that’s not how Android works now. Look at what changed at I/O – and all without an Android update. Google was making a statement.

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Perfectly relevant. I’d argue with the same lack of information that you’re doing about the 25% that it only includes current devices since it’s only the last year that the dpi has been ratcheted up.

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And what percentage of all iOS devices is the iPhone 5?

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Also – I’d like to add that there is no causal proof that web surfing equals a more engaged user. There is no causal proof that usage time equals a more engaged user.

The top things developers care about aren’t browser time or anything other than app time. I’d love to see a metric like how many app visits per active user per day or something. That’s an entirety better than web usage.

Then there’s duration of app use, number of screens or activities used, etc. All worlds more useful to a developer. Web usage really is a red herring.

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I think you misinterpreted the pie chart at the top and the chart at the bottom agrees with me.

The “normal” is from about 3.5" to 5" according to the bottom chart, and that would include everything except the absurdly huge phablets, and all tablets.

So normal is indeed a huge percentage of overall Android devices.

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Don’t go douche on me. We’re having a good conversation up until you suggested I’m unable to grasp your point. I grasp it – I just don’t necessarily agree with it on its face value.

I also don’t buy that “use time” is equal to being used more. And I think you misinterpreted at least one of those graphics as I’ll add to it above.

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Look, folks, Android releases don’t much matter anymore. Look at 4.1→4.2. What changed? The two-finger settings, the in-app back button is now a button instead of a tiny clickable “<”, and a few tiny minor tweaks.

At Google I/O they showed how they changed the paradigm. Every new feature announced works on Android 2.3+. And not a one required an OS update.

Stop worrying about the damned revision numbers.

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Now you’re comparing apples to oranges. You can’t say that the iPhone outsells Android flagships – you could say that the iPhone 5 outsells flagship Android phones, but to compare an iPhone 4 to an HTC One is just absurd.

iP5 should be compared to the S4, HTC One and maybe a few others only.

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Yeah – you’re right. The first site I went to said it was the first month – they were clearly wrong.

Regardless, S4 (10M) + HTC One (5M) in one month very likely eclipses ip5 sales for any given month.

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No – Apple reports numbers shipped too. That’s not sales, as roguey’s link says.

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To me, the current design elements of Android 4.2.x aren’t what keep me on the platform. What keeps me here is the thing we always hear that are the real differences – defaults, intents and such. Defaults are huge. Intents are bigger.

The gorgeous work Duarte’s group has done simply enhance these usability items.

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Oh no you don’t.

Sales of the iP5 in its first two months: 5.1M
Sales of the S4 in its first 28 days: 10M

So Samsung sold twice as many S4s in half the time as Apple did in 60 days.

Try again, and this time take the Apple colored glasses off.

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True – except that Chrome on Android allows you to “Request desktop site” which changes your user agent from mobile/android to chrome/Linux. I’ve always wondered if those 20% numbers were screwed up considering how I have mine set to always request a desktop site.

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I guess it’s a good thing Paul Miller didn’t use yahoo last year.

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Actually, though Katrina was a miserable overall failure, the flood protection worked as designed.

The problem was that 1) Katrina’s surge was bigger than planned for and 2) New Orleans sunk. A lot.

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Oh hell no. But I do take their free parties. :)

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I love yelp (full disclosure – I’m a yelp elite) but their app sucks on android. In comparison, foursquare’s app is gorgeous, modern, useful and fast. The foursquare app incorporates layers and a background map in a very well designed way.

Compare that to yelp, who still hasn’t added messages to their mobile app. Yelp is too reliant on the full desktop interface. And if Facebook is any guide, it’s going to hurt yelp in the long run.

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