Red state, blue state 2012: iOS vs Android in the USA

Split this into metro areas please. Generalizing for the entire state makes no sense.

Very little correlation, zero causation.

So there is no connection between the two.

That's a very odd number for North Dakota given that AT&T didn't sell the iPhone for a long time while Verizon sold Android devices.

It would be neat to see outside the USA. When I was just out of country for some conferences, my time spent in HK and mainland China were dominated by Android phones (especially that monsterous Samsung one). Literally, I saw more Windows Phones than iPhones.<p>Then, I went to Tokyo, which is much more diverse, including not only Android and iPhones, but quite a few flip-style phones.

If someone wants to run this study again with some more normalization, I would be really interested in the correlation with the data and the extremity of the wealth inequality geni coefficient.<p>My hunch, areas that have high wealth inequality will favor one platform more than the other. Areas that have more of a gradient will be more 50/50.

I’d love to trust these numbers, but it’s very hard to, partly as the article provided absolutely no analysis. To me, it just looks like a blatant advertisement for their services. “What does it mean? They’re both important! Spend your money with us!”

Is this different to what would be expected by random sampling? The fact it goes from 70% to 70% makes me wonder if there is and underlying variation by state at all.

Is there a version of the graph for the colorblind? It would be nice to have one with numbers overlayed on the states.

perhaps validation? "the Android operating system makes up almost 75 percent of MillerCoors’ mobile traffic"<p><a href="http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/content/14614.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/content/14614.html</a>

so that's just the same as this xkcd strip but with median income/ios/education levels/supporting gun control/access to birth control<p><a href="http://xkcd.com/1138/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/1138/</a>