Whoops, didn't see your reply until now... I just posted a lengthy explanation of why there are fewer iOS apps than Android... way more verbosely than your very succinct summary, lol!
Yeah, I know people think installing non-store apps is sketchy... but, at least on Android, some of those apps are really cool or let you have more control over your device (especially wrt removing the bloatware most Android phones come with from major cellular carriers and their pre-paid subsidiaries).
Which is another difference between iOS and Android devices, but I think it's more a difference in their uses bases: Android seems to attract more technogeek types because they are much more likely to tinker with and customize their devices (e.g. jailbreak and install custom ROMs).
Whereas iOS devices and their user base are much more the 'it just works, I don't care how or why, and I never want to screw up my phone and have to factory reset it repeatedly like you clowns' users. (Said the woman whose tinkering has required factory resets twice over a span of 6 Android smartphones, lol!) :D
Not that there aren't jailbreak users of iOS devices -- there certainly are. I just think more of that user type prefers Android because it's so much easier to jailbreak/install custom ROMs. (And those jailbreaker users of Android are also much more likely to also own an iOS device, typically also jailbroken.)
The ultimate point of the jailbreak/custom ROMs devices is that the user has more control over the device (or *as much* control over the device) as Google... whereas the majority user base of iOS devices don't care to have more control over their iOS devices and are content with things the way they are.
Also I think there is a significant subset of Android users (again, almost 100% of them, tech people) who are privacy/permission freaks. iOS users in general don't seem to have the problems with device privacy/permissions that this subset of Android users do.
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Yeah, I know people think installing non-store apps is sketchy... but, at least on Android, some of those apps are really cool or let you have more control over your device (especially wrt removing the bloatware most Android phones come with from major cellular carriers and their pre-paid subsidiaries).
Which is another difference between iOS and Android devices, but I think it's more a difference in their uses bases: Android seems to attract more technogeek types because they are much more likely to tinker with and customize their devices (e.g. jailbreak and install custom ROMs).
Whereas iOS devices and their user base are much more the 'it just works, I don't care how or why, and I never want to screw up my phone and have to factory reset it repeatedly like you clowns' users. (Said the woman whose tinkering has required factory resets twice over a span of 6 Android smartphones, lol!)
:D
Not that there aren't jailbreak users of iOS devices -- there certainly are. I just think more of that user type prefers Android because it's so much easier to jailbreak/install custom ROMs. (And those jailbreaker users of Android are also much more likely to also own an iOS device, typically also jailbroken.)
The ultimate point of the jailbreak/custom ROMs devices is that the user has more control over the device (or *as much* control over the device) as Google... whereas the majority user base of iOS devices don't care to have more control over their iOS devices and are content with things the way they are.
Also I think there is a significant subset of Android users (again, almost 100% of them, tech people) who are privacy/permission freaks. iOS users in general don't seem to have the problems with device privacy/permissions that this subset of Android users do.
Just mho... YMMV.