"Never mind the fact that the iPod turned the entire music industry on its head. Never mind the fact that most successful notebooks today resemble designs first popularized by Apple. Never mind the fact that the blueprint of the modern day smartphone remains the original iPhone. Never mind the fact that competitors are scrambling wildly to copy the success and design of the iPad. Forget all of these things, because when it comes to Apple, the 'what have you done for me lately?' mentality reigns supreme."
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Ho hum. I am always surprised by people who profess to be interested in the tech trends and yet seem so oblivious to clear trends that are well documented. I decided to spend precisely five minutes responding to your tedious request, the results are below.
If you really want more data I suggest a few relevant Google searches, you will find a lot of interesting material about the differences between iOS and Android platform utilisation. Personally I find this difference between the platform utilisation rates, which has enormous implications, to be one of the most interesting phenomena in the modern tech world. It is clearly a well documented fact yet explaining why it is happening is very complex because I suspect it involves many different factors some of which are hard to measure. I would love to see some serious research on this question.
Here are some links for you, a 'thank you' would be nice 
General overview of the different levels of iOS and Android engagement and the engagement trend
http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/26/the-android-engagement-paradox/com...
Advertising income
http://www.opera.com/sma/2012/q2/
Digital Content
http://www.macstories.net/stories/mapping-the-entertainment-ecosyst...
Developer revenues
http://techpinions.com/android-v-ios-part-4-developers/9535
Web traffic
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57464763-37/apples-ios-grabs-65-o...
Web commerce
http://www.fortune3.com/blog/2012/11/cyber-monday-2012-ecommerce-st...
A case study with one product on both platforms
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/30/no-more-tnw-magazine-for-a...
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General overview of the different levels of iOS and Android engagement and the engagement trend
http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/26/the-android-engagement-paradox/com...
Advertising income
http://www.opera.com/sma/2012/q2/
Digital Content
http://www.macstories.net/stories/mapping-the-entertainment-ecosyst...
Developer revenues
http://techpinions.com/android-v-ios-part-4-developers/9535
Web traffic
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57464763-37/apples-ios-grabs-65-o...
Web commerce
http://www.fortune3.com/blog/2012/11/cyber-monday-2012-ecommerce-st...
A case study with one product on both platforms
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/30/no-more-tnw-magazine-for-a...
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Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
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Android install base is not significantly larger than an iOS install base. Both should be about 500mil by now, with a margin of error of no more than 15%. Total app revenues are barely known, as only Apple's revenues can be counted up. And there are stories on both sides of massive piracy and massive profits, that don't support any death threats to any platform.
And then there's this BS that comes from nowhere:
"The iOS ecosystem is healthy, the Android ecosystem is surprisingly anaemic.
Both ecosystems are healthy and active. "
Every metric I have ever seen from multiple sources (none of which are your bizarre imaged 'fanboi' sites) says the same thing: Android users actually use their Android phones as a platform to do things much, much less than iOS users. Given the weight of evidence I would have thought this is not a very controversial thing to say. I could trawl the web for data links but do I really need to,?