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

Unpossible!

[denzacar]

Or should that be iMpossible?

Re:surprising?

[Hognoxious]

Mindshare and pressshare are magical things.

They pale into insignificance compared to assshare.

Three Ss in sucesssion? is that permisssible?

Re:surprising?

[xaxa]

Mindshare and pressshare are magical things.

They pale into insignificance compared to assshare.

Three Ss in sucesssion? is that permisssible?

Sssh, you.

Re:surprising?

[rainmouse]

Apple sales reps will be boycotting mobile phone shops dressed in grey hoodies advising people "These are not the droids you are looking for."

Re:Forgive me if I'm wrong...

[linhares]

John Gruber has already started. Gotta love that guy.

Re:This has all happened before and it will all ..

[Yvan256]

Android is the Windows of the mobile world.

It's going to crash a lot and get a lot of viruses? /duck

Droid Does Porn

[strangeattraction]

Verizon's droid does porn advertising campaign is what really hooked me into my purchase. If Jobs hadn't pointed it out to me I probably would have just bought an iPhone.

Re:Proof that being more open = more sales

[pastafazou]

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

Re:I bet iPhone will be back on top this quarter

[bennomatic]

I heard that the 5g, slated for next year, will be like those sponge toys. Put it in water and it'll turn into an iPad. Need the phone factor again? Put it in your oven for 45 minutes.

Re:Bullshit.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just one quick thought: could it be that you, as a giant douchebag idiot fanboy, are much more prone to spotting the brand you support than the brands of rivals.

Re:surprising?

[tomhudson]

I believe so, as the alternative, "asshare," is read by my internal monologue as "ass-hare" which, while it sounds like "ass hair," is spelled like a cousin of "ass rabbit" and that just seems to me like a couple steps up from a gerbil, and neither of those is something I want to contemplate in the context of smartphones.

Come on, you mean to say that you've never been tempted to tell someone to shove their iPhone up their iAss?

And for extra goodness, then say "Can you hear me now?"

Re:Proof that being more open = more sales

[Schnoogs]

I use Windows...I guess I'm not an educated consumer (throws away Masters in CS)

Re:Bullshit.

[VisceralLogic]

Hell at a boardgame party Saturday night (I am that lame) we even whipped 'em all out to compare.

TMI, dude... TMI... ;)