Meanwhile, over 160,000 Androids are being sold every single day, and that was even before the Droid X was launched.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/23/160000-android-phones-sold-per-day/
That gives ya a massive 14.4 million Android's sold per quarter, easily trumping iPhone sales. And that is just for starters.
Joe, you are comparing Apples to Grapes!
An iPhone is one product made by one company on one platform for one carrier.
Droid is NOT a product it is just an OS. Google doesn’t even SELL it, they make their money off the Ads the pop up on your phone.
Google doesn’t make the phones, DOZENS of phone makers Make the phones. All kinds of phones. And many of them run the Droid OS.
But you are counting OS market share NOT any particular PRODUCT like the iPhone’s marketshare.
If Google was giving away an OS to every carrier that exists, and wasn’t able to top Apple’s one product, on one carrier, I would be WORRIED about them.
But this comparison is like saying how many Cadillac Escalades were sold vs how many Bus Passes were given away.
Mostly an irrelevant set of data.
An abnormally low number as shown. To be rectified this Q.
Meanwhile, over 160,000 Androids are being sold every single day, and that was even before the Droid X was launched.
That's Android devices. Android is going into phones, tablets, media players and e-readers. Several dozen devices across all carriers, and none. iOS has three devices: iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. How many have those sold?
Still, using your numbers, several phone manufacturers across all carriers only managed to get less than double what one manufacturer got on one carrier. Not all that impressive.
And if you REALLY want to talk volume, Nokia sells about 45 million phones EACH MONTH. Or about 135 million per quarter.
Samsung is up pretty high, too, doing about 23 million a month (70 million a quarter).
In smartphones, it's Nokia first, then RIM, then Apple, closely followed by HTC. If you do it by OS, it's Symbian, Blackberry, Android, then iOS.
Apple's never been a sales leader for smartphones, ever. Even inside the US. Runs counter to their claims and what their more fervent believes love to trumpet, but the truth is - while they sell a lot of phones - many others sell a LOT more...