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Citation needed. If you are that kind of guy, you can easily pirate on any platform, iOS included.

Personally, despite you just needing to install an APK, I don't know a single Android-user running anything not installed from the Play store.

Obviously the XDA crowd is different, but they are a clear minority, and I know almost nobody IRL who goes that route.

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I run the Amazon App Store and Humble Bundle on my Galaxy S4, both of which are APK files I side installed and I have many apps from both installed. I don't think I'm a minority in that regard, since these are businesses. As such I have lots of apps not from the Google Play Store. My Kindle HDX doesn't even have access to Google Play, so all the apps on it are from Amazon/Humble Bundle. They're just blown up phone apps for the most part.

ios users paying more: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/11/apple-users-buying-61...

The only occurrences of the the word "Android" are in that paragraph:

>More apps than Android: Apple's App Store has more than 425,000 apps. The Android Market has 200,000. In May, Google (GOOG) announced its 4.5 billionth app download, compared with Apple's 15 billion as of July 7.

Where do you read that iOS users were paying more than Android users in that article?

That article is from 2011... quite a lot has changed since then.

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