You iPhone owners sure are picky 😆

May 03, 2022

If you had to guess, would you say iPhone owners are more or less picky than Android users?

A new analysis of more than 120 million app reviews, scraped from the App Store and Google Play, makes it clear that those on one side of the great smartphone divide have higher standards than those on the other.

Maybe we'll just call them "discriminating" rather than "picky," eh?

Also today, you'll find:

-- Lewis Wallace, managing editor

Third-party iPhone apps scored significantly lower than their Android counterparts, according to an analysis of user reviews of 4,400 top mobile apps. This does not necessarily mean that Android offers better third-party software, though. iPhone users simply expect more from their apps.

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One more thing ...

"By the time I was in third grade, I had a good buddy of mine, Rick Farentino, and the only way we had fun was to create mischief.... There was a big bike rack where everybody put their bikes, maybe a hundred bikes in this rack, and we traded everybody our lock combinations for theirs on an individual basis and then went out one day and put everybody's lock on everybody else's bike and it took them until about 10 o'clock that night to get all the bikes sorted out. We set off explosives in teacher's desks. We got kicked out of school a lot." – Steve Jobs on elementary school high jinks

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