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Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-competing-please dept.

tomhudson writes "Despite all the hype about Apple's latest iPhone, Android has sold more in the last 6 months (27% of all smartphone sales) than Apple (23%). The gains for Android are coming at the expense of RIM (still #1 at 33%, down from 45% a year ago), Windows Mobile (11%, down from 20%) and the iPhone (down from 34% at it's peak 6 months ago). If the current trend continues, Android is expected to be #1 within the year."

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  1. Already #1 in the US market by SilentSage · · Score: 5, Informative

    Boy Genius and Engadget are circulating a report that says that Android has already overtaken Apple and RIM in the US. Android devices collectively represented a 34% share of the US market in the quarter, and with growth of 851% Android became the largest smart phone platform in the country.

    1. Re:Already #1 in the US market by Fnkmaster · · Score: 4, Informative

      Eh? Android does support ActiveSync. It just that prior to 2.2, it didn't enforce all the corporate security policies of ActiveSync. See Feature Enhancement Request 4475 and see this article for a summary of related changes in 2.2.

      2.2 seems to address most of the password/security policy issues with ActiveSync. I have 2.2 running on my Nexus One, but don't use Exchange server, so can't comment here.

      For Droid owners, the update to 2.2 is supposed to come out officially this week, though I'm pretty sure there are unofficial 2.2 ROMs out there already. So basically, what you are talking about is no longer an issue, or at least not a particularly significant one.

  2. I wonder how much of this you can blame on AT& by Mongoose+Disciple · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or rather, the exclusivity deal between AT&T and Apple.

    Anecdote: I had lunch over the weekend with a friend who lives in a part of the country that AT&T doesn't cover at all. He and his wife had seen other peoples' iPhones while travelling outside of that area, and all things being equal, would have preferred to buy iPhones, but couldn't. (Yes, they could have bought one someplace else, sucking up a useless contract, jailbreaking, etc., but come on -- that's not a real option for most people.) They ended up getting Android phones instead.

    AT&T's commercials assert that it covers 97% of Americans, but if you live in or spend much time in one of the areas (more than 3% of the map) it doesn't cover, the iPhone loses by default even if Apple's marketing is successful.

  3. Re:Yawn... by ADRA · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_simple.svg

    Yep, the market really cooled off in Q1/Q2 in bated anticipation...

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    Bye!
  4. Re:A couple things by Anubis+IV · · Score: 3, Informative
    Seems you didn't go back to the source and read the article, since, as is common around here these days, the summary got it wrong again. Even CNN Money got it wrong, including with their correction. Their actual numbers have no mention of 20% anywhere. To quote Yankee Group's correction of their own data:

    So what is the right statistic for Android owners? The honest answer is that we don’t know. You’ll note in the excerpt above, we were careful to say “Google-branded Android phone owners”.

    The numbers actually ended up being that 77% of iPhone owners intend to purchase another iPhone for their next phone, one third of ALL smartphone owners plan to buy iPhones for their next phones, 36% of Google-branded Android owners (e.g. Nexus One) plan to buy an iPhone for their next, and 32% of Google-branded Android owners plan to buy an Android for their next phone.