Android vs. iPhone: Is the Android winning?
May 11th, 2010

Today, unfortunately in the battle between man vs. beast, Steve Jobs vs. Eric Schmidt, iPhone vs. Android, we have found that the Droid is winning.  According to the NPD Consumer Market Research, the Android phone is outselling the iPhone by 7% in the first three months of 2010.  Apple, or rather Steve Jobs, is a prideful person and therefore had to respond to this  study.  Apple stated to The Loop:

This is a very limited report on 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide,” Apple spokesperson Natalie Harrison, told The Loop. “IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1 percent of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android on a worldwide basis. We had a record quarter with iPhone sales growing by 131 percent and with our new iPhone OS 4.0 software coming this summer, we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.

You heard Apple, “we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”  However, according to this Smartphone operating system unit share trend, the Blackberry and the Android are leading the sales in Smartphone operating systems.

[image via FortuneCNN]

While Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs battle their egos, is Schmidt having the last laugh? or will the iPhone OS 4.0 blow the Android out of the water?

[via 9to5mac.com]

[image via CNET]

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  • I wouldn't be surprised (nor would I care) if Apple stays #2 behind Android from now until the end of time. Lots of companies are making Android devices and (more importantly) they're available on more carriers. Plus the sales are puching prices way way down, whereas Apple will probably never drop below $99 for last year's model. I really doubt you'll see ads saying "Buy an iPhone for $49, get another FREE!" Everyone knows Apple doesn't want the bottom of the market.
  • grimmlock
    Ok, let's see if I can figure this out here.

    The iPhone is made by Apple. No one else makes the iPhone.
    The iPhone will only work on AT&T (out of the box).

    The Android OS is installed on numerous different hand helds made by different companies (HTC, Motorola, eg).
    Android phones are available for all cellular carriers.

    In order for this graph to be a true apples to apples comparison, then you need to compare how many Android versus iPhone users there are on AT&T, ignoring the rest of the carriers, otherwise you are just polluting your data because the only option people on other carriers have to get an iPhone is to switch to AT&T, and there may be many reasons why they don't.

    Until they fix the data, then I cry Shenanigans.
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