Of course since there are vastly more companies making Android phones than there are making the iphone(only one company, Apple makes the iPhones), naturally the single vendor of iPhones will outsell a random single vendor of Andriod. Tada! You finally get it! It's apparently quite relevant since you just restated it in your argument. It takes the combined sales from all of those well-established, powerful phone manufacturers on all of those carriers throughout the world with phone lines from low-end to high-end (including lots of buy one get one free specials) to just beat the sales from one manufacturer with one line of premium phones on a limited number of carriers. That's a measure of the iPhone's amazing success, not Android's.
Thus my point. That Android overtook iPhone was inevitable as long as it didn't suck so bad as to turn off consumers like WinMo did.
It's like comparing Apple mac sales to Windows PC sales from some small PC maker and claiming the Mac is dominant.
We're not talking about "some small" phone maker. These are the powerhouses Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC. These owned the market after RIM and Nokia. Apple went from zero to beating all of those companies in less than a year.
And whoever said Apple was dominant in either? Sounds like another instance of a strawman.
It takes the combined sales from all of those well-established, powerful phone manufacturers on all of those carriers throughout the world with phone lines from low-end to high-end (including lots of buy one get one free specials) to just beat the sales from one manufacturer with one line of premium phones on a limited number of carriers. More like it takes an OS from a firm that has never even written an OS before, never been in the mobile phone business before, never even been in the consumer electronics business before(Apple has been making macs for over 30 years)only got into the mobile OS business just 2 years ago, and then managed to swiftly overtake not just the previously “on track to dominate smart phone business” iPhones, they managed to overtake the long dominant in the US Rim as well.
It's virtually unprecedented.
Meanwhile, firms like HTC have been making Win Mo smartphones for well nigh 10 years, and still got nowhere in market share..until Android came along that is.
That's a measure of the iPhone’s amazing success, not Android's. Orwellian Applebot logic at its best:
Apple has been making consumer products for over a massive 30 years. Google has never made even as much as a keyboard before in their entire lives. In just 2 months, Google introduces a smartphone OS, then lroceeds to totally clobber Apple's iPhone in market share, and is even now accelerating even more in smartphone sales {200,000 Android devices sold every day }, and somehow, its Apple that is “amazing” not Google?
ROFL!
Apple has been making macs and other consumer products for as long as I can remember. Remember the Apple Newton? That was over 20 years ago.