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I’ve seen graphs like this and sometimes wonder units shipped vs units currently being used. For tablets at least, in the last 4-5 years I have had an iPad Pro and 4 android tablets, but the iPad Pro is the only one working. So I am 80/20 on android/apple shipped but 0/100 on currently used.

iOS devices last longer than Androids, both because of premium components, as well as longer software support timelines; wealth effects also drive up use of those (faster) devices. This is changing slowly as Google (finally) invests to fix Android, but use rarely goes more than 1.5x sales.

Sharing this that I've been carrying with me at presentations: It's a different world out there. Also, do you have links to your data? Thx! omdia.tech.informa.com/pr/2024/jun/...

Updated Performance Inequality Gap blog post on the way shortly...stay tuned.

That was in fact going to be my q?s -- I should just go to the blog! Love your work in the space, and I also get sad that Google scrapped the NBU project.

Wonder what the $ vs Geekbench score ratio is — might work it out if I find time later in the week I moved to iOS because I got fed up with Android being abandonware — I tend to keep my phones for 5 years

I plotted that out too. The good news is that cheap phones are good value; the band news is...well...everything else.

*bad news What'll really blow your mind is how cache-rich the top-tier parts are. I've been going on (and on and on) about this for years, but the "more cache, fewer cores" tradeoff has been ripe in Androidlandia for years, and is only just now being picked: