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I don’t understand. Android is outselling iPhone in US and worldwide Samsung alone is outselling iPhone.

Android includes a vast majority of devices that are NOT competition in the smartphone market or tablet market. Better than 80% of the Android phone market is comprised by either basic phones or "feature" phones that cannot download apps or add functionality beyond what is included when they are sold. I.e. They are not "smartphones" and only share an OS with Android smartphones that compete with the iPhone. Samsung admitted in trial in 2012 that more than two-thirds of the so-called Android "smartphones" they had claimed they shipped that year were actually "feature" phones. . . and a majority of them could not even connect to the Android Play Store. So much for competition to iOS iPhones in the smartphone market.

In tablets, this is what a LARGE number of the counted "competition" to the iPads are:

Xelio 7" Android Tablet WiFi Webcam Portable Jelly-Bean
Black 800 x 480 touch screen w/stylus - List price: $79.99 — Retail: $24.00
RAM 512M DDR3
Hard Drive Capacity: 4GB
Battery / Run Time(up to) - 3 Hours
Front Camera - 0.3 Mega Pixels
7" Capacitive Touch Screen Android 4.0 Tablet PC with Camera Wifi
800 x 480 Touch a Screen w/stylus - List price: $59.99— Retail: $39.00
RAM 512M DDR3
Hard Drive Capacity: 4GB
Battery / Run Time(up to) - 3-4 Hours
Card Slot 1 x TF Card Slot
Front Camera - 0.3 Mega Pixels
Another I saw last week was a 5" touch screen w/stylus Android "tablet" with "Huge 2GB memory!!!", no WIFI, no BLUETOOTH, pre-loaded games, and basic apps. . . Android Froyo. Retail: $19.95

The vast majority of "tablets" in the Android market are these "white box," no-name manufacturer models designed as essentially throw away designs. Again, they simply do not compete against the iPad but are listed as "tablets" in the statistics.

This is like saying that the top end auto makers are being blown away by the numbers of bicycles, tricycles, kiddie cars and HotWheels being made. . .

Android is outselling iPhone in US

"Android" isn't a vendor, it's a platform that encompasses hundreds of products from dozens of vendors. Apple is the leading vendor in the U.S. and the iPhone 5S is the leading product.

Samsung is probably the only legitimate competitor to Apple in this space; the two companies are the only profitable ones in the entire market segment.