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This week I’ve got some thoughts on Android vs. iOS market share and a possible root cause of the confusion on that topic. We’ve got three really interesting product interviews from Macworld – Corning’s glass fiber cables<\/a>, Double Robotics Wheels for your iPad<\/a> and PowerTrekk’s fuel cell charger<\/a>. George from Tulsa steps in with a 1 minute review of the Turtle Beach M5 stereo headphones<\/a>. I’ll give you an update on my adventures trying to learn to program for iOS using Kevin McNeish’s book<\/a> I told you about last week and I won’t answer a dumb question from Professor Albert on what new iMac to buy. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we’ll have the 2nd half of Bart’s build your own Network Attached Storage server adventure – now with software!<\/p>\n

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\nHi this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias. Today is Sunday February 10, 2013 and this is show number 405. I think I’m going to give up on apologizing for a long show – as long as it’s long because there’s so much great content. This week I’ve got some thoughts on Android vs. iOS market share and a possible root cause of the confusion on that topic. We’ve got three really interesting product interviews from Macworld – Corning’s glass fiber cables<\/a>, Double Robotics Wheels for your iPad<\/a> and PowerTrekk’s fuel cell charger<\/a>. George from Tulsa steps in with a 1 minute review of the Turtle Beach M5 stereo headphones<\/a>. I’ll give you an update on my adventures trying to learn to program for iOS using Kevin McNeish’s book<\/a> I told you about last week and I won’t answer a dumb question from Professor Albert on what new iMac to buy. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we’ll have the 2nd half of Bart’s build your own Network Attached Storage server adventure – now with software! Before we kick in though – I made a horrible omission last week – I forgot completely that Guy Serle of the My Mac Podcast was also a bouncer – and he had fancy clothes too – a black t-shirt that simply said “Mac Security” on it! My apologies Guy, now we can kick into this week’s show!<\/p>\n

Android vs. iOS<\/h3>\n

I had a really interesting conversation with a co-worker. Her opening line was something like, “you know stuff about iPads, right?” Well that cost her about an hour of her life. The problem she had to solve was that her daughter was turning 14 and wanted an iPad. She asked what I knew and I gave her the pricing for the 4th generation iPad 4 with and without cellular. When I got to the cellular part she said that she wouldn’t be getting her a data plan. I’m pretty hard over that if you can afford it, buying it with the option<\/em> to turn on is a good idea, even if you only turn it on when you go on vacation. <\/p>\n

So then she says that Android tablets are cheaper. Being an Apple bigot, I told her that my understanding was that Android tablets are just harder. I was basing that on a lot of comments from Jeff Gamet over the holidays talking about how hard it was for him to get his niece’s Android tablets working over the holidays. As I said it though, I was feeling a bit disingenuous, since the Nexus 7 seemed pretty easy to set up to me. So I pulled that out too and told her the pricing on it. She mentioned that she actually has two daughters – twins both turning 14. I’d be very price conscious if I were her; looking at two concurrent college payments in just 4 years.<\/p>\n

She didn’t seem that interested though. She said that she bought the girls matching Kindle Fires for Christmas and that one was gathering dust while the other one hadn’t even been removed from the box. I wasn’t super surprised, I know a few people who have Kindle Fire’s in boxes. We can see statistics that by many measures, Android has had a giant percentage of sales, and yet web traffic tells a different story. (BGR<\/a> says that Android is outselling iOS, iOS web traffic is double that of Android.) I had thought maybe people were buying Android devices but not using them. <\/p>\n

Then things got even more interesting. I started pushing on the topic of a data plan for the tablet to give to her daughters, and she said they wouldn’t be giving her a data plan. When I asked why, she pointed out that they have Android phones – and they don’t have data plans on them. I was dumbfounded! Why would you buy a smartphone and NOT get a data plan??? She looked at me and quite simply replied, “$30 a month”. Well she had me there! That got me to thinking even more, maybe people are buying Android phones, using Android phones, but not buying data plans on them? That would actually explain the vast discrepancy. Maybe if you look at a bunch of phones, and money is at a premium, not only is the free phone an advantage but not buying a data plan is also attractive. I’d be curious what you all think about this. I mean it as no disparagement on Android, just observations here.<\/p>\n

It’s time to kick into some more interviews from the Macworld show floor – as I said we’ve got some great ones this week. <\/p>\n

Corning Optical Cables <\/h3>\n