The better question the Android community should be asking itself is why it hasn't attracted or developed great writers and evangelists as well as Apple has.
Android has much more global impact than iPhone will ever have [1]. A huge chunk of people in developing countries earn less-per-month than the cost of an iPhone. So who cares if some yeppie evangelist is not using it.
People are going to be coming online for the first time. There’s this vibrant community of young app developers growing in Kenya and Nigeria. - Jimmy Wales.
Macro goes on at length on privacy without realizing that there is no way to tell if iPhone is not sending each bit of data back to government or any other organization for that matter. Open Source nature of Android, AOSP, makes it the most viable option in today's surveillance state.
Think Marco was talking about privacy in terms of using your data to sell to advertisers. In today's surveillance state, if it exists to the extent we think it does, whatever you do that remains constant so can't be used in comparison.
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/50-android-smartphones-are-...