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Looks like Samsung about doubles Apple's smartphone sales.

Sorry, I take facts over your handwaving and rantings.

Chart 21: Android shipments overtake the iPhone 2 years after the launch of Android

http://www.digitimes.com/Reports/Report.asp?datepublish=2011/12/30&pages=RS&seq=400#11

Tablet PC manufacturers prefer Android over other operating system because Android is an open operating system platform and it seamlessly allows third party hardware installations. ErenEben, the local player which is currently selling Android based Tablet PC’s, is currently focusing on professionals and customers aged 35 and above and is becoming a hot favorite for business world in China

http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/android-anticipated-to-become-market-leader-in-china-tablet-pcs-market-by-2016-says-techsci-research-122105.htm

Android captured a record 39 percent share of global tablet shipments in Q4 2011, rising from 29 percent a year earlier. Global Android tablet shipments tripled annually to 10.5 million units.

http://www.strategyanalytics.com/default.aspx?mod=pressreleaseviewer&a0=5167

Apple shipped 15.4 million iPads worldwide in the 4th quarter. 200k xoom tablets is nothing.

AT&T had 7.6 million iPhone activations in the 4th quarter. That's only one carrier in one country. 5 million Android phones world-wide is nothing in comparison.

Actually, a forecast from even one year ago turned out to be less optimistic than facts would later warrant:

March 2008: "Adobe Flash Lite has shipped on over half a billion devices and with 150% growth over last year we expect to reach 1 billion devices by 2010."
http://www.flashdevices.net/2008/03/flash-lite-has-shipped-on-over-half.html
[Bill works at Nokia now, but worked at Adobe then.]

January 2009: "Cumulative shipments of Flash-Lite enabled cellphones hit an estimated 961 million units at the of December 2008, up 489 million units over the previous year. With a current run-rate of over 40 million new shipments per month, Strategy Analytics estimates that the 1 billion figure will have been reached by the end of January 2009."
http://www.strategyanalytics.com/default.aspx?mod=ReportAbstractViewer&a0=4483&src=rss

The iPhone seems to have dramatically helped shipments of Flash Lite, by spurring other manufacturers to realize that "Experience Matters".

jd/adobe

The downloadable ringtone market is expected to double to $4 billion by 2008. Just because Slashdotters don't think ringtones are cool won't stop millions of pre-teen mushbrains from blowing their allowances on ringtones, and you can be damn sure the RIAA knows it.