Scoff if you wish, but anecdotes like these don’t lie! They add up! Like integers. Integers of

Noyes is clumsy in her wording, saying Android’s prodigious growth makes it “the No. 2 operating system (OS) on the planet” when she means the No. 2 operating system. She also says “Apple’s iOS, meanwhile, fell from a 17.1 percent market share a year ago to 16.7 percent in this year’s third quarter.” Careful, Katherine: that’s just iPhones. iOS, of course, has a much larger market share because of the iPad and the iPod touch. Care to throw in those, along with similar Android devices, for an overall OS market share? Probably not, since Android tablets are only just hitting the market and there is no real Android equivalent for the iPod touch.

Sorry, go on. You were talking about how Android rules.

I believe Apple’s iPhone is rapidly becoming a niche device. Its restrictions are too numerous, its approach too condescending, and its choices too few to have the broad appeal it needs to succeed on a grander scale in the long run.

In short, Apple may always have its share of fans among consumers who don’t mind living in its “walled garden,” but there’s no way it can compete in the market as a whole with the diverse, compelling and powerful platform that is Android.