But I do agree with you, most people buy things out of which they get the most utility, and ease of use an sexiness are a big part of that. But the person I was responding to mad the claim that people won't buy the ipad because it is closed. It would only be possible to believe this if your head was buried deep in the sand.
It's silly to use Nexus One sales as proof of anything because it's had almost no marketing. The Droid has sold far better: http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31410/Day-74-Sales-Apple-iPhone-v...
Anyway, the whole discussion of which is doing better is completely unrelated to my original objection to the top-level poster.
It had a hell of a lot more marketing than the iPad did, and was still trounced by the latter's preorders alone.
Consider sales of the Droid. In it's first 74 days it sold more units than the original iPhone did in it's first 74 days.
http://mashable.com/2010/03/16/nexus-one-sales-poor/
But I'm not going to say that proves that the Droid is sexier than the iPhone.
Hell, there both great phones.
Sales are not complete proof of sexiness, but they are evidence. It strikes me that if the iPhone on a single carrier can win out against an entire ecosystem of phones on many carriers, it probably has something they do not.
In a carrier-locked-down market like the US, where the norm is to buy phones that are married to a given carrier, it only proves Apple has better marketing and carrier relations than other companies.
Also, Android is not a phone - it's a platform. The Nexus One is only one of many competing offerings - that compete not only with iPhones, but between themselves.
Are there many Android developers who've been able to quit their day jobs and make a living from app sales? (That's a serious question, not a snarky one -- I don't follow the market closely.)
The other explanation is that iPhone is plenty open to developers who make the types of apps people want to buy, and closed only to the tinkerers who would not have been making salable apps anyway.
