Originally posted by reh321 The original issue was whether a feature would cause the Flickr statistics to be biased.
My impression is that Flickr users are skewed towards North Americans with above average income, which is also a better market for iPhones, but that doesn't fully explain the big lead for iPhone models in camera usage for all Flickr users. The only conclusion that can be drawn from the Flickr stats is that iPhone users are far more likely to upload photos to Flickr than Android phone users.
There is no technological reason for that discrepancy, from experience I know that taking and sharing photographs with an iPhone is no better or worse than with the KeyOne I'm using right now and the image quality is slightly better with the KeyOne than with the iPhone 6 I was using. Most of the billions of smartphone users don't upload pictures to specialized photo-sharing websites, but of the small minority that do, these are predominately iPhone users. I'll make a wild guess that >99% of professional photographers are also smartphone users and most of the professional photographers that are also Flickr users are also iPhone users, even though iPhones don't provide a better built-in camera. What does all this data tell us? Not much, other than we can confidently state that Flickr users don't accurately represent the global population of smartphone users.