iOS 6 has been out five days and it’s already installed on 25% of older iPhones. Android 4.1 came out months ago, and it’s still only on 1% of all Android phones.

iOS 6 has been out five days and it’s already installed on 25% of iPhones. Android 4.1 came out months ago, and it’s still only on 1% of Android phones.

Anyone familiar enough with both major smartphone platforms can tell you that the iPhone has too many fundamental advantages over Android to fully list, and that there’s no comparison. Any mainstream user with an Android phone was duped into buying it by a geek fanatic they mistakenly trusted. But when you start listing off the dozens if not hundreds of fact-based reasons why anyone using one of Samsung’s fake counterfeit iPhones has made a mistake, Android fanatics try to counter each fact with a lie of their own, and the whole thing dissolves into a fact checking exercise with no hope of exposing any duped mainstream Android users to the truth. Now, however, the smoking gun has finally arisen: the new iOS 6 system software was released a few days ago, and according to web metrics firm Chitika, it’s already been installed on more than a fourth of all existing iPhones. Contrast that with the fact that the latest Android 4.1 system software was released months ago, and according to Google’s own published user data, it’s been installed on less than one percent of existing Android devices…

In fact, most new Android phones that you’d buy right now don’t ship with the 4.1 system software. Most of them ship with something older then 4.0 for that matter. Why? It’s a combination of two factors. One is that, because getting anything onto an Android device is so convoluted and difficult, most Android users can’t figure out how to install or update anything. Unlike with the iPhone, where you plug it into your computer and iTunes gives you a one-click process for updating, Android users are lost in the wilderness so most of them end up with the same Android system software for as long as they own it. No updated features. No security updates. Just an aging device, frozen in time by its own obtuseness. The other half of the problem is that because Google has no standard for the various jalopy phones that its Android system software is licensed to, those phones end up being incompatible with each other. It’s part of why third party Android apps are so awful: developers don’t even know which of the hundreds of incompatible-with-each-other “Android” phones to develop for, as no single Android app will ever work on all Android phones. Even Google can’t come with updated versions of the Android system software which are compatible with the array of nonstandard jalopy Android hardware being sold. And so most Android phones being sold are simply not compatible with Android software updates. As such, 99% of existing Android phones aren’t running 4.1 because most of them aren’t able to. How broken is the Android platform? Despite Android only being a three year old platform, the majority of existing Android phones are still running version 2.3 which came out years ago. So there’s your smoking gun. But what if duped Android users need more evidence for why they should upgrade to an iPhone? Here’s a longer, yet still abbreviated, list…

The iPhone interface is more intuitive. The practical usability is night and day. The iPhone app store has more apps, better apps, and every app has been tested for security and stability before going live, in contrast to the Android app store which is a cesspool of untested and unstable apps which are unsafe to install for fear of turning your Android phone into a crashing brick. Android phones have oversized screens of very low pixel density, which means your phone is too big to fit into your pocket for no reason, as opposed to the iPhone which packs far more pixels into its slightly smaller screen and allows you to hold it closer to your face, making it effectively larger than anything you can get on Android. Relevant new features come to the iPhone first, such as 4G LTE on the iPhone 5 which uses a second generation LTE chipset which allows for full battery life. Fake features come to Android first as marketing gimmicks, such as supposed “4G LTE” on Android phones which use cheap LTE chipsets which require so much battery life that your phone would be dead after twenty minutes of surfing the web with LTE, so LTE is secretly turned off by default in the system settings and you’re really using 3G without knowing it. iPhone users can effortlessly get all of their music onto their iPhone with a click of the button in iTunes, while Android users find it so difficult to get any music onto their Android phone that they usually end up carrying an iPod on the other pocket. And that’s the short list.