Android is an OS. It competes with iOS.
The LG Revolution is a phone. It competes with the iPhone.
Android is a fine OS. The LG Revolution is crap. In terms of hardware failure, the manufacturer means more than the software.
The LG Revolution is a phone. It competes with the iPhone.
Android is a fine OS. The LG Revolution is crap. In terms of hardware failure, the manufacturer means more than the software.
I’m just not sure why that makes the comparison bad?
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Are you saying that if people started installing Android onto iPhones (if it were possible) all of a sudden the hardware failure rates for iPhones would sky rocket?
All this says is that devices running Android fail on average more often than iPhones – for whatever reason (regression to the mean, one designer and manufacturer vs many, lower priced devices, and so on). That’s a perfectly valid comparison.
By comparing every Android phone on the market (from cheap to premium) to only premium devices you are always going to get a skewed result.
You are naming one factor that might explain the difference – but that is exactly the point of such comparisons! To figure out what the difference is!