I think that is true. My 17-year-old boy, who has rooted his Android phone from hell to breakfast and is always downloading some new OS tweak that is technically still in beta and not really ready for prime time, is a much more appropriate Android customer than me -- who just wants the thing to work and stop freezing or rebooting itself four times a day.

The Android (as I said upthread) is much more reflective of compu-geek culture, where high tolerance prevails for failures and crashes, because workarounds are part of the "fun." This same mindset hampered PC growth 15 years ago or so, because new users who were used to TV set-class reliability couldn't believe how screwed up Windows PCs were, right out of the box -- both hardware and software -- and how casually their maddening flaws were accepted in geek culture. Macs were the antidote to that.

In Phoneworld today's Android OS seems culturally similar to Windows 3.11. It sort of works, a lot of the time, but you have to forgive a lot also.

In a sense the Android-versus-Apple app debate is a variation on Windows-versus-Mac OS. Windows: more open, more apps, more vulnerabilities and hack risk, ongoing usability and stability issues, constant security worries, more trouble. Apple: less open, more of a walled-garden environment, fewer apps, fewer vulnerabilities, much better platform stability and user-friendly experience, fewer security worries and less trouble.