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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
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Updated with more recent data - tracking for the most part as would be expected (still before the iPhone 5S & 5C release though). Should be interesting to see what effect the new phones will have.
Also references some various reports with some interesting items.
Kinda like CP being full of the 1%er's - why worry about slightly behind on market share when that segment is just the poor, uneducated and old people. You're not making money as a business on them anyways! 
In August, a report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners looking at such demographics about smartphone ownership was largely reported as noting that more than twice as many Samsung owners were switching to iPhones rather than moving in the opposite direction.
It was also broadly reported, as Philip Elmer-Dewitt of the Fortune Apple 2.0 wrote, that the data "showed, not surprisingly, that Apple's customers tend to be richer and better educated than Samsung's."
Nearly 70 percent of iPhone users reported earning more than $50,000, while only 55 percent of Samsung's buyers did, and the number of users with a college degree, masters or doctorate were also much more likely to have an iPhone. This kind of data has also shown up in heat maps of users in affluent locations.
On the other hand, Samsung has more middle age users and significantly greater penetration among seniors 55-64, perhaps related to the oversized screens Samsung commonly uses.
