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brian s hall asks (again) “what are Android users doing with their Android phones?”

Despite the massive market share numbers, there is more (total) browsing on iPhones. More app usage on iPhones. More Google searches! iPhone users are consuming more WiFi, playing more games, uploading more photos, etc.

In other words, iPhone users are getting *value* for their device whereas Android users, in total, seem to be, well, throwing their money away.

Maybe, if all of the Android users purchased a data plan to go along with a phone which still required an out-of-pocket expense. What I think may be happening is many of the Android phones being sold are either bundled for free with contract, or are entry-level (subpar) phones coupled with pay-as-you-go plans.

I am open to the idea that a large portion of Android phones sold are underutilized because the user has no intentions of using them as smartphones. For these users, all they really needed was a cheap phone to make calls and maybe text, and an Android phone was offered to them for free.

While some people online stop at overall market share when comparing products, I am more concerned with their usage in the real world. I decided to look at sales numbers for Android and iOS devices in correlation with both their online market share and Black Friday sales numbers to see how they stacked up. What I found was rather interesting.

LeBUZZ was a website started in 1999 by Dane Scott to follow BeOS, and later Haiku, from more of an audio/broadcast perspective. After BeOS was retired, thanks in large part to Be, Inc.’s bankruptcy, many BeOS-related sites and projects closed up shop. While leBUZZ stuck around for many years, activity on the site stopped in 2009, adding itself to the list of many once-great BeOS tech sites followed.

Go check leBUZZ out!