Why are there 600,000 morons?
Lets not become fan-boys ourselves and attack others for their choices. instead lets argue the facts and we might end up better represented in the end.
While the new Iphone is not the monumental shift forward prior generations have been (instead it has been brought more inline with current high end android offerings), it is not a bad phone by any stretch of the imagination. Yes it's US carrier provides abysmal service; yes Iphones are expensive by comparison; and yes some of the new features have received praise, while conveniently ignoring that other phones already in the market do the same thing or do it better. Still, the Iphone has something going for it.
first, as a brand the iphone has been on the market longer than any modern smartphone. This means it has market precense and recognition. Tha alone is probably driving a lot of sales. On the other hand, many of it's applications are extremely well rendered - a common term I've heard thrown about is "Pixel Perfect"). while this doesn't mean that the applications are necessarily good, by and large they are [at this point in time] better rendered than many comparable Android apps (this is especially true of games). Lastly, they have itunes.
Lets face it, Itunes is huge and has an enormous amount of media of all kinds for consumption. Add to that the app store and the fact that people download in apple's proprietary file types and you get a large number of people who have very pretty phones, that are very nicely rendered, and have access to a n enormous amount of media which they can't easily convert to another format. Imagine you have a few thousand songs in apples' format. for the type of computer literate persons that Android tends to attract, converting them to an open format is a given. however to the average user, this may not be the case, and at the thought of loosing their files or being bothered with converting them, many opt to just stay on with what ARE very nice phones, even if the service is no that great.
I don't think that makes anyone a moron (excepet perhaps for the fanboys who regularly berate Android and its phones as if they were somehow lesser systems). If anything it makes them comfortable with what they have and know.
That said, android's inroads into the market continue to rise in quite dramatic fashion. Also I have to wonder how many of the current batch of Iphone preorders are from existing customers, and how will sales continue after the initial new product introdoctury bump. My guess is that once the hype settles down, android's latest batch of super phones will continue to drive android's expansion, while apple's inroads into the market will remain relatively flat and RIM's market share will continue to erode.
