I understand why there are less "PCs' being used at airports, but where are the damn Android-based devices that are apparently so much more popular with users than anything Apple makes.

I'm surprised at the low numbers for Android devices, in relation to its alleged marketshare.

Are these corporate devices, locked down and not used for airport web-surfing (i.e., personal web-surfing)?

Popular because of low price... but suspect the average user can't make them work in that kind of environment so they don't get recorded.

On the other hand perhaps they all have 4G and don't need to connect to WiFi...

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Phandroids thinks what's good for them MUST be good for everyone else, regardless of how every single report showing the contrary says.


Over the weekend, a friend approached me frustrated that he could not get his new Android tablet working on our public WiFi. He's not tech-savvy. iPad was too expensive so he got suckered into buying some cheap, chinese, 7" plastic iPad knockoff (brand new) from the Internet for $60.

It was the biggest pile of $h!t I've come across. Nothing worked. The build quality was horrendous, and it required tapping the screen with the force of a sucker-punch in order for it to register anything on the touchscreen.

We must have spent 30 minutes trying to get it connected to our WiFi. I gave up. I pulled out my iPad and got on in seconds. The online retailer offered to return it but has to pay $54 in shipping to return it. So he essentially has a doorstop.

This is exactly why I hate all that Android crap. It's becoming the PC paradigm where everyone races to the bottom and the customer gets screwed. Then, it makes the tablet industry look bad in general even though Apple had nothing to do with it.

Shame on people for continuing this garbage mentality and for hating Apple for smacking them in the face. These folks deserve it.

I thought the ipad was a PC?

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...r_in_2012.html

It could be demographics (Android appeals to poor folks), and the survey is based on world data as well (Android is more popular in the US than in Europe and US residents don't leave the country as much anyway).

Android users are notably more conservative also. Maybe they are just too paranoid to give their credit card to the Airport people?

Your argument makes sense in the context of iPod T's and iPads. But iPhones?

Furthermore, on a given trip, you likely need to data-roam at one or more airport, regardless of whether you have iPhone or Android. Boingo is a cheaper option.

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