The Numbers No One Wants to Talk About in the Android vs. iPhone Sales Battle

[phandroid]

For all of those shocked and awed by the Apple’s announcement that as of last Friday they had sold 3 million iPhone 4 handsets, I’d like to take a moment to direct everyone’s attention over to John Battelle’s Searchblog. In his post he takes a rather bold stance, one much of the blogosphere hasn’t even [...]

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[pantlesspenguin]

Very interesting read, thanks!

 

[mrmojoz]

Hmm, they say 3 million 4s. How many older devices during the same period?

 

[jree]

Hmm, they say 3 million 4s. How many older devices during the same period?

Statistics were meant to be skewed in favor of the person who's introducing the statical study. I for one hope that iphone keeps on coming out with better products and people always buy them keeping the market competitive. This way android doesn't go the way of WinMo and hit the ceiling anytime soon

edit: On a side note this is one of the reasons that I couldn't stand owning an Iphone. To many pretentious people that hung on every word that Steve Jobs says.

 

[IOWA]

And how many of those sold iPhone's were previous iPhone owners...

How's that for "Revolutionary", Steve?