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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Phones are fashion accessories. Users buy the one that has the features they want with a sufficient coolness factor to impress their friends. They may or may not be aware of what OS is under the hood. Folks who buy iPhones, for example, and buying the Apple brand, not iOS.
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I have to disagree on that as a blanket statement. iPhone users may use their phones as fashion accessories first and communications devices second (I've seen this more times than I can count), but I haven't seen that trend with Android phones. Thus far, that crowd has been made up of:
1. Early adopters,
2. employees of forward-thinking companies (and of course Motorola & Google; presumably others such as HTC)
3. technologically savvy and/or geeks.
Where I work, I'm one of 2 Droid X owners. The other guy shows his off every chance he gets; I use mine in all the ways it's designed to be used, but I'm not in any hurry to go flashing it around. Let 'em get their own. The lone remaining iPhone owner knows he's outgunned and doesn't say anything to me.