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Poll: iPhone owner(buy apps) vs. Android owner (buy apps)

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There has been a recent debate regarding iPhone app purchases vs. Android app purchases. Who is more inclined to buy apps? iPhone or Android users?

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I was a frequent app buyer for iPhone. I would be a frequent app buyer for Android. I have bought, or donated as is popular, money for Android apps useful to me.

iPhone apps currently dominate in being polished, functional, and plentiful. The sad truth is that most of the apps for Android look like everyone rushed out and bought "Beginning Android 2" and flooded the market with yet another Sudoku clone from the exercises contained within; not literally but it serves to demonstrate my point.

I do not follow the purpose of the poll. Is the money in iPhone (currently leading in the poll) or is it an untapped market in Android (currently trailing in same poll) waiting to be exploited as iPhone reaches possible saturation?

dondrapper21@gmail with bogus site seems to have found quite a number of people willing to purchase apps for android; see "Angry Birds", the download count, market date entry, and the comments. Funny stuff though sad for the scam it is.

Purpose is to gauge mindset of the two owners and is there a difference in mindset when it comes to buying apps?

Fair enough.

Good luck with this endeavor. (no sarcasm)

This is a really interesting poll...and I'd love to see hard real numbers of total android and iphone users and the percentage of users that buy apps, since a poll like this might be difficult to get accurate results, as people who have never purchased apps might not respond

The interesting bit for me is that I have noticed my resistance to buying apps has eroded over the ~5 months I've had my nexus one. I wonder if the imbalance is simply that Android users tend to have had a smart phone for less time, and it takes time to build new attitudes?

I wish more people responded to this, that curve starts to look very interesting.

What is the threshold between "few" and "frequent"?

1 to 10 a month = frequent 1 to 10 a year = few

I tried to make the poll simple, though doing so might have omitted more clear details needed?

I can change it. If need be.

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