People generally dont buy what they dont want. That is why they aren’t buying Symbian and RIM phones.
There are alternatives available on both major carriers, and it is only correct to assume that the vast majority of the people that choose Android, regardless of the number of models available, did so because they had to like what they saw.
True...then you veer into non-sequiturs.
If people aren’t buying Sybmian, RIM, and iOS devices because they don’t want Symbian, RIM, nor iOS, that doesn’t mean they _want_ Android because they liked what they saw, it just means it sucks less.
I wouldn’t say “X beats Y” if both X and Y suck, even if X is marginally preferable to Y given the limited sucky choice.