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McDonalds has more marketshare than In-N-Out, and a bigger menu. However, the people eating at In-N-Out are having a much better experience enjoying their vastly more delicious food :)

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In-N-Out is also far more scarce than McDonalds. In towns where In-N-Out and McDonalds density is about even, In-N-Out has more marketshare than McDonalds.

How is this relevant to iOS vs. Android again?

iOS is also far more scarce than Android, being available only on AT&T (in the US). On carriers which carry iOS devices and in countries with carrier non-exclusivity, iOS has far more marketshare than Android and is not losing share at all.

That's not really true, e.g. in the UK, Android is also gaining similarly:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/30/android-goo...

I'd be genuinely interested to see some stats to back this up since it doesn't at all match up with my own observations.

Terrible argument. Neither Google nor Apple make the "menus", third party developers do. If you can make a high quality Android app, by your own argument, it should be appreciated and rewarded by users starved for quality.

I don’t think you analogy works much better. Third party apps are responsible for anything between zero and less than hundred percent of the experience, depending on usage (it’s possible to completely avoid installing third party apps, it’s not possible to avoid all contact with OS software).

I don’t know what the average number is but my guess would be that it’s not very close to hundred. It might even be less than fifty percent.

Really? It's true that the developers make the "menus" but Google and Apple make the "restaurant," to continue the analogy.

Having recently acquired an Android phone for dev purposes, I find the UI, built-in controls, installing apps, settings, etc. all completely jarring compared to iPhone.

(Off-topic, I love the Android SDK though, and being able to use Eclipse is great.)

Is there some catch all term or concept for someone saying "my new thing (or a thing I tried out for a short period) is different from my old thing and therefore uncomfortable to me with my expectations and habits and so I declare it inferior"? I get the feeling we're going to hearing that a lot as the iPhone early adopters shift to Android and after reading so many worthless Windows->Mac, Windows->Linux and Mac->Linux switching stories that just repeat this error at great length it would be good to be able to put a name to this concept and short-circuit it this time.

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