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> Android enables tons of people all over the world to communicate and do things.

This... sounds like an ad.

It's the truth. Go to Africa, go to South America, a bunch of places, people running businesses and whatnot off their phones. Hardly anyone uses iOS outside a few rich countries. Because most people use them to do stuff, so most open/ubiquitous (and yes cheap) wins.

People somehow worried about an OS given away for free that is still the #1 OS of all user devices including desktops...

They use android because they can't afford iphones, not because "you can do more" with androids

And where did I say that?

You said that "people use [androids] to do stuff" as if you couldn't do stuff with iphones.

I said the open, cheap and ubiquitous nature gets it into the hands of people who care about doing things. The implication is not that you can do more rather that you can do the same without spending as much on an iPhone (especially since in most of the world people buy devices outright).

And it's the truth. You can do the same with a $400 Android as a top of the line Samsung/Apple device save some games...

You can do more with Android because you don't have to sell a liver to afford an Apple device.

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