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...Google has dominated the market with an astounding sales growth of 886 percent.

They are misconstruing this... Google is not making ANY SALES at all... they are GIVING AWAY the OS. There are no REVENUES AT ALL going to Google from the sales of these phones. Google intends to gain revenues from Advertising associated with users accessing websites and apps from the phones using Android OS. Strangely, the online presence of iPhones in July 2010 grew TWICE as fast as Android, according to NetApplications... and that's ignoring iPod Touch and iPads.

"Upon the version 4 release, the iPhone posted its largest single-month usage gain ever in July. This gain comes amid persistent reports of antenna problems. Global usage share jumped from .59% to June to .7% in July. In comparison, the May to June share was esssentially flat. However, this is a typical share pattern prior to the release of a major upgrade, since buyers hold off purchasing until the new release
In more good news for Apple, the iPhone grew usage share at over twice the pace of Android.

It should also be pointed out that a percentage of sales growth over last year is a meaningless statistic unless one knows the number of units sold last year. IF there were only 1000 units sold last year and there were 8860 units sold this year, they you can easily say there was an 886% increase over last year... but that is not so impressive when you know that there were only 1000 sold last year. Apple sold 8.4 million iPhones in the last quarter, when sales went flat in anticipation of the release of the iPhone 4, and 8.8 million in the preceding quarter, for a six month total of 17.2 million in the two slowest quarters of the year. Compare that to Google announcing as of the end of December 2009, that 8,450,420 Android phones, from all makers, had been sold since Android was release in October of 2008. 30% of 14.7 million is only 4.4 million... and 28% of 13.5 million (1st quarter US 2010 smartphone sales) is only 3.8 million... bringing the total to ~16.7 million Android phones sold worldwide... total, since October 2008. Less than what Apple sold worldwide in just six months. I don't think Apple is too worried.

Incidentally, in the iPhone's 1st year, they too posted growth figures in the same range...