According to [1], Android makes up 60% of the US smartphone market share; but you're comparing many different brands of phones, all of which use Android, to the iPhone which isn't exactly fair.

You can see that the iPhone is still has the largest smartphone market share in the US.

Also, bear in mind that Android phones thrive in less rich countries like Mexico [2] or the Philippines [3]. The price of the iPhone is perhaps the largest burden for these people, but I'm willing to speculate that if given the choice, most would favor iOS over Android.

[1]: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...

[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/867948/market-share-smar...

[3]: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/philip...

Well, I'm from India and I still prefer Android to an iPhone. It is lightyears ahead in customization, which I prefer the most.

And significantly more malware than iOS has.

Malware can't do all that much but drain your battery with Android's sandboxing unless you're rooted.

I thought there was a significant adware problem, rooted or not?

You can easily find the app responsible for any push notification and uninstall it. Not sure about other avenues.

> unless you're rooted.

There we go :)

You can run custom / 3rd party software without being rooted. Not that rooting should be impossible.

What did you mean by this one?