Android Sales Surpass iPhone Sales

gollum123 writes with this excerpt from VentureBeat: "Smartphones based on Google's Android mobile operating system outsold Apple's iPhone in the US during the first quarter of 2010, according to a report by research firm The NPD Group. The data places Android, with 28 percent of the smartphone market [last quarter], in second place behind RIM's Blackberry smartphone market share of 36 percent. Apple now sits in third place with 21 percent. NPD points to a Verizon buy-one-get-one-free promotion for all of its smartphones as a major factor in the first-quarter numbers. Verizon saw strong sales for the Motorola Droid and Droid Eris Android phones, as well as the Blackberry Curve, thanks to its promotional offer. Verizon launched a $100 million marketing campaign for the Droid when it hit the market in November 2009, which likely contributed to strong sales in the first quarter as well." Preston Gralla notes that it's not all bad news for Apple; this report could help their case in upcoming antitrust discussions.

Comments

I TOLD YOU SO!

[ElectricTurtle]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Who's laughing now all you Apple fanbois! Oh yeah, Google's growth isn't sustainable. Sustain this , bitches!

(Sits back and waits for the karma burn.)

Re:I TOLD YOU SO!

[ElectricTurtle]

Another dumbass who fails at logic. The context of the statement you're trying to turn into irony through your ignorance is 'I have [...] karma' -therefore- 'I don't fucking care' (about being modded down). Because you possess the IQ of a lobotomized gibbon you read this as 'I don't care about what you say' which would violate the context of the sentence as it talks about karma, which is about moderation, not responses, which are in fact exclusive.

I should troll more often. It's fun to insult idiots.

Re:Now, the true app experiment begins.

[Vintermann]

There's been anecdotal evidence that there isn't as much money to be made writing Android apps as there is to be made writing iPhone apps.

There's been rumors. Extremely useful rumors for Apple, I might add.

Re:Proof that being more open = more sales

[jedidiah]

> yes, being more open will always result in more sales. That's how Linux was able to surpass Windows so quickly.

Windows had a 10+ year head start on Linux.

OTOH, MS-DOS was more open than Macintosh and dominated it in a humiliating fashion.

You had an entire industry versus one company.

Re:Apple

[BasilBrush]

Never underestimate the ability of design illiterates to attribute the success of well designed products to "shininess".

Re:Now, the true app experiment begins.

[Archangel Michael]

What good is developing an Application if nobody can find it?

One thing Apple has, and nobody else does, is the ITMS (one stop shopping).

To be honest, I don't trust iWhateverApp from Nicolai the Russian, available for download from whatever shady-fly-by-night.com address, and I don't care what it does.

I don't want my customers to trust it either.

I have pen

Re:surprising?

[tomhudson]

... which is why they don't sell to teenaged kids ... oh wait, they do. The iPhone has gone from "Premium Niche Product" to mass-marketed ho-hum under-performing crap quicker than any other product in history. And the iPhone 4g that's coming out is WAY behind the Evo 4g. Within the year, Apple will be seen as behind the times.

Re:Apple

[BasilBrush]

Never underestimate the power of people who have hatred for certain products to think they know better that the purchasers of a product the reason for the purchase.

Particularly when they are design illiterates. It's like someone who can't read thinking that people who buy books do so because the covers are colourful.