Naaaah.
You are coming up with the same discredted excuses that the Applebots drag up whenever Apple is getting clobbered in market share in any market.
Nothing new here. We have been hearing the same crap whenever Windows PC's clobber the Aple mac in IDC/Dataquest market share figures.
“An iPhone is one product made by one company on one platform for one carrier.”
The iPhone is carried by a huge number of carriers across the world, including cell phone companies in Korea and China. These are worldwide figures. Stop spewing out garbage.
“Droid is NOT a product it is just an OS. “
An OS is not a product?
Since when?
How ,any OS’s have you written?
“Google doesn’t even SELL it, they make their money off the Ads the pop up on your phone.”
This article is about Andriod smartphone sales, not just OS sales. Read it. Then you can comment, ok?
“But you are counting OS market share NOT any particular PRODUCT like the iPhone’s marketshare”
This article based on figures from Canalys, is counting Android smartphone sales, not Android OS sales. These are physical smartphones. Get it?
“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.”
Androids are clobbering the iPhones in market share. Read the figures.
“But this comparison is like saying how many Cadillac Escalades were sold vs how many Bus Passes were given away”
Umm..no.
Andrid smartphnes are selling at the same $200 as iPhones are. No Andriod smartphoines are being given away here. You gotta dip in your pocket and pay for the phones, same as you pay for the iPhones. Get it?
What more garbage you gotta spew out?
But this comparison is like saying how many Cadillac Escalades were sold vs how many Bus Passes were given away
Obviously refers to buying high-end vs. low-end in the market. We all know we pay part of our phone cost in the contract, so I will naturally refer to contract prices, with "free" meaning that there was no up-front charge for the phone. Of course we're only talking new phones, not refurbished, and we should stick to only recent models to keep it fair (no comparing the iPhone 4 to last year's Moto Droid). Now the parts of your response that I have an issue with:
Andrid smartphnes are selling at the same $200 as iPhones are.
Point 1: Only some Android smartphone models are selling at that price, such as the Incredible, Droid X and EVO 4G. Android smartphones are currently available as low as $49. Verizon actually has, right now, several cell phones priced the same as or higher than two Android smartphones. Per my promise above, these aren't last year's models, having been released in March and May of this year (I don't count the Moto Droid, last year's model).
Point #2: $200 is the low-end current iPhone. The high-end model sells for $300. Thus you see that in the smartphone market the Android phones and the iPhone meet at Android's high-end and Apple's low-end. Apple doesn't play in Android's low-end where the bulk of sales probably are.
You go on:
No Andriod smartphoines are being given away here. You gotta dip in your pocket and pay for the phones, same as you pay for the iPhones. Get it?
Earlier this year I went to my local Verizon shop to buy an Android smartphone ("an" as in *a*, singular, sole, solitary, one-each, in case you have problems comprehending that again) for me, at an advertised price of well under $200. But Verizon was having a "buy one get one free" deal, so I bought that one phone for me, and the other one was "given away" by Verizon to my wife. This wasn't a one-off lucky deal since Verizon continues "buy one get one free" to this day on selected phones.