Comments on: RFM 2013 Top 5 – Part 3 – Android vulnerable https://www.radiofreemobile.com/rfm-2013-top-5-part-3-android-vulnerable/ To entertain as well as inform Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: Douglas https://www.radiofreemobile.com/rfm-2013-top-5-part-3-android-vulnerable/#comment-181 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:00:53 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=359#comment-181 Firstly, thanks for the great blog. I think the net result may be that you are correct but I do take some issue with your point that “Android is messy and difficult to get it to do exactly what you want in terms of applications, email etc etc.”. Whilst Android prior to 4.0 may well have had these issues I think it is a problem that is being solved. The vast majority of the “non interacting” Android users have, as you say, cheaper, older devices that are most likely not upgradeable from 2.3+. These handsets will go away and better processors, etc. will allow even the cheapest handsets to run Jelly been and it’s subsequent releases.

In my view it is probably down to the demographic of the “cheap phone buyer” just not buying apps, shopping by browser or doing much at all on mobile because of data charges that want to avoid. If I am correct then Apple, if it were top produce a cheaper iPhone as rumoured, would be afflicted by the same problem – though perhaps to a lesser degree.

So Androids lack of usage vs. iOS, in my view, is down to cost of services rather than the OS itself.

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