To make my point more clear, why on earth would you or anyone care about how much money the manufacturer of a product you use (or has similar OS to the product you use) make or by how much money its beating its main competitor in this quarter?
I can think of three possibilities:
- You are a market analyst.
- You are an investor.
- You are fanboy.
I am going to go with fanboy.
- You are a developer that has to make some bets about where to focus resources and learning time.
I would also probably categorize this in to "investor", in the sense that your business is investing on that platform, so profit margin of that platform in a relevant information for you.
I am a user concerned with long-term investments into ecosystem: apps, purchases of DRM-d content (as bad as it is), compatibility with peripheral devices (external batteries, fitness and medical etc). I've been burnt before (Palm devices anyone?) so now I pay a great attention to market share, third-party ecosystem, opinions of developers about the platform etc.
- You are randomly interested in the world.
- You are bikeshedding, following Sayre's law
Merely pointing out the functional differences between iOS and Android does not automatically make somebody an "Apple fanboy".
Merely pointing out the philosophical differences between iOS and Android does not automatically make somebody an "Apple fanboy".
To generalize this, merely pointing out things that can be perceived as negative about one product/company/person does not mean that the person expressing such ideas automatically supports some competing product/company/person.
Goes both ways.
Merely pointing out the functional differences between iOS and Android does not automatically make somebody an "Android fanboy".
Merely pointing out the philosophical differences between iOS and Android does not automatically make somebody an "Android fanboy".
To generalize this, merely pointing out things that can be perceived as negative about one product/company/person does not mean that the person expressing such ideas automatically supports some competing product/company/person.