Android has won the phone world war

Likewise, I really doubt that all the African countries marked as iPhone really are "iPhone territory".

The key sentence is this article is:

> Published by Electronics Hub, [these maps] are based on a qualitative analysis of almost 350,000 tweets worldwide that presented positive, neutral, and negative attitudes toward Android and/or Apple."

It's a jump in logic to conclude general consumer preferences as the article does:

> Now the results are in: worldwide, consumers clearly prefer one side — and it's not Steve Jobs'.

I don't think Twitter users are good representatives of general consumer preferences, especially in countries where Twitter is not widely popular. And that's just for starters.

ios users are more likely to pay/use apps?

Sampling bias, I'd guess. While unlikely, it could be possible that Android users just happened not to use the apps that you were developing.

You can buy a fairly usable Android smartphone from Samsung or Xiaomi for less than $200. It’s not tough to see that if go and buy a smartphone in a poorer country or you’re not willing to spend the cash which option will win out.

That being said the budget phone experience is worlds apart nowadays from what even buying the first Samsung Galaxy phone was way back. Because that wasn’t even a budget phone and it was kinda bad. It’s much nicer nowadays so it’s fascinating to see the low end get so much nicer in about 10 years.