I think it's also that Android users tend to use their phones more as solely communications devices (FB, Twitter, news, email) and less as an 'app console' device, for lack of a better description.

Exactly. They have shown their willingness to spend their disposable income on their phone.

iPhone users are a marketer's dream. Hence why ads on the platform will also generate a higher ecpm than Android.

One other thing about the iPhone is that Apple has much more uniform and confident marketing as a single company than Android has being spread across the industry. That means if I buy an app now, I feel sure I'll be able to use it for years to come on whatever new iPhone I have at the time. I feel confident investing in my mobile app library. I bought a $100 GPS app on the iPhone because I believe I'll be able to to use it for the next 5 years at least. That's value. If I could only be sure I would be able to use it till I got a phone upgrade, I wouldn't have bought it. With Android, (I have an Android phone too) it's not so clear to me that when I buy an app I'll still be able to have that same app on my phone in 5-10 years with whatever phone I have at the time. Maybe other people feel differently, but I'm not sure who I'm putting my confidence in with Android. Google doesn't control what handsets are made, so I can't just put my confidence in them, and A lot of the mobile carriers have hinted at building their own OS, etc, so I could see Android growing out of favor. This may be very unlikely, but I just don't feel as confident about it, so I don't feel I can invest in my software library like I can with the iPhone.

But it's 99 cents on the Amazon Android store: http://www.amazon.com/Rovio-Mobile-Angry-Birds-Ad-Free/dp/B0...

Fact is, everything new and different is new and different at first. But that fades away quite quickly.

An Amazon (or Kindle?) branded Android tablet with the Amazon store and music locker service is starting to be more and more likely.

Recent surveys in the UK by YouGov suggest iPhone users are poorer and manage money less well than Android or Blackberry users, but also that the people who use their phone 4+ hours a day are more often found on the iOS platform. This is an interesting reversal of the common wisdom that Android is the home of freetards and geeks. But an audience of geeks with poor impulse control over their spending sounds pretty good, even if they're relatively poor.

I'm not in London, for me the geeks/normal split oseems fairly even between iPhone and Android e.g. a female, non-tech colleague who went into the store wanting something with a hardware keyboard and came out raving about Swype while my tech colleagues all have iPhones.

Experience in this space with my company is much the same. iOS outsold our Android version 7 to 1 and the iOS app was out for less than half the time.

Android might be taking the numbers lead but if I was a developer and I only had the resources to do 1 platform iOS would win easily.

I can't find a way to interpret this statement and have it be true.

There is no fee to use the o.s. The devices cost the carriers a great deal. They purchase them in bulk from the oems and then sell them to customers. The cost is then recovered over the life of the contract.

This is why it's hard to know exactly how many windows phones are active in the ecosystem. The only public data is the bulk sales to carriers by oems.

Wrt your other points, I don't have any nits to pick. :)

And we don't have to pay for incoming calls on our mobiles here.