Hm, maybe those Droid commercials chastising “princess phones” really worked. According to an AdMob opt-in survey, 73% of Android users are male, that’s nearly three-fourths of all Android users and considerably more than the iPhone and webOS platform which both have an ever so slightly more male userbase.
So the question is, why does Android trend male? Is it because it’s nerdy and geeky? And if so, is it because there are more nerdy and geeky males than nerdy and geeky females? Or is it because their most successful phone (the Droid) eschewed soft curves for hard lines? Or maybe it really is because of the marketing?
It’s likely a combination of reasons and something Android should be aware of. But one thing we want to know, what do the Blackberry and Windows Mobile splits look like?
[readwriteweb]