"Apple continues to report strong iPhone sales quarter after quarter, but competitors are starting to catch up. NPD reported earlier today that retail sales of Android surpassed iPhone OS sales - and bloggers and analysts who follow the space didn??????t seem to be surprised by it."
As has been stated in many other blogs/posts since this report came out: Android SHOULD be outselling iPhone OS. Android is an OS that is spread across many carriers and placed on MANY handsets from free to top of the line. iPhone OS is on AT&T and two handsets. The fact that iPhone OS maintains it's place NEAR the top is a feat unto itself. That means that that many consumers are choosing one of two phones on one carrier. If Android did not surpass total sales of iPhone OS, Google should/would be ridiculed.
You can also look at the marketing used by some carriers using the buy one/get one model. That includes Android based phones but ABSOLUTELY not iPhones. So this boosts those stats even more.
I am not saying this is sketchy accounting. It is completely up-n-up. It just needs to be acknowledged. When discussing over all sales figures between the two (and even RIM).
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