Tech Sensationalism Suck.

One of the main reasons I started to blog was because I felt that the main tech news hubs were too biased. Often recurring to Yellow Journalism, which I find pathetic and irresponsible - I know for a fact that there are people that only reads the headlines. And that's enough for them. Enough to craft an opinion.

While looking for any clues of what's up in the world of geekdom I found an article at TechCrunch, titled: Android Market Share Continues to Gain on The iPhone. If you look at the numbers on the survey he used on his article you'll notice that the truth is very far from his headline. I don't get this type of journalism.

This is the logic, Palm and Microsoft combined looses about 6% of market share. Apple's market dominance drop by 0.1% (that's zero percent, just in case) while Google's Android and RIM's Black Berry gains about 1% and 5% respectively. So if Apple market share remained (practically) the same while Microsoft and Palm combined loosed about 6% and Google and Black Berry gained about 6%, how could possibily Android-based phones are gaining on iPhones? Was this just a dumb title or just some sort yellow journalism tactic?

UPDATE: 4/5/10 10:57PM

Now that I think about it, what is interesting of these numbers is that BlackBerry is carier independent. Virtually all cellphone carriers have Black Berry plans and Android and Microsoft-based systems too.

But the iPhone however, is only available to AT&T customers. And even that way, a quarter of the entire market is Apple's.

I think that studying the percentage of iPhone's vs other brands

on the AT&T network should provide a more accurate perspective on actual brand popularity.