Top Smartphone OEMs -- I expect to see company names, which each one aggregating their various offerings.
Top Smartphone Platforms -- I expect to see PLATFORM NAMES, not more company names. WTF?
"Android" is a platform.Seriously, WTF? Are journalists now so completely ignorant of the language that they can't tell software from the company who makes it?
"Apple" is NOT a platform.
"Microsoft" is NOT a platform.
"Blackberry" is NOT a platform.
"Symbian" is a platform.
Years ago my dear, late mother-in-law, working as an admin assistant, used Word Perfect for Windows. She constantly referred to it as "Microsoft".
MIL: "Hi, I'm having trouble with Microsoft. Can you help me?"It got to be a running family joke. THIS WAS IN 1989. That was 26 years ago, she could be excused. There is no excuse today.
Me: "Sure, Mom, have you been talking with their tech support or something?"
MIL: "No, no, it's this darn Control key, it won't do what I want."
Me: "Oh, okay, what program are you running?"
MIL: "Microsoft."
Me: "Microsoft WHAT? Word? I thought you liked Word Perfect..."
MIL: "Microsoft. I'm running Microsoft."
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'Scuse my rant.
I examined your rant to see if I could find the root of your problem and have discerned what it is. You have made a basic mistake.
You assumed that "journalists" were educated in anything other than journalism. . . that journalists understand what they are writing about.
That's akin to assuming that a modern Liberal teacher understands the subject they are expected to teach!
My dear Freepfriend, that is NOT at all the purpose of getting a journalism or education degree. . . the purpose of each of those degrees is supposedly to learn how to do those things, not at all about learning anything about WHAT they are going to with do them, or the subjects they are going to write about or teach!