Chortle!
Trying to reason with a fanatic is like talking to brick wall.
Reality : Q2 is only 4% lower than Q1.
Given that even in other consumer electronics products like video game consoles, Q1 2010 sales far outpaced Q2 2010 sales (Q1 still has some of the Christmas sales momentum in it), even with no new consoles introduced in Q2, your Apple's Q 2 was “abnormally low” excuse has been proven to be false.
“People in the US held off buying until the iPhone 4, but probably a good percentage of them still got their phone within the quarter. “
Whatever percentage of “people” who supposedly “held off” buying iPhones earlier in Q2 (and I am yet t see any official figures from anyone backing that up), would have been more than compensated for by higher than normal launch sales of iPhone 4’s, like most new phones experience during their launch Windows.
Plus, like I have repeatedly pointed out to you, hot new Androids like the Droid X, Galaxy etc were launched very late in Q2/early Q3 as well, and that never stopped Androids from clobbering the iPhones.
You excuses are irrelevant, immaterial and incompetent(to paraphrase Perry Mason).
Sales jump with new, highly anticipated products. Sales of existing products also slump before the new products are available. Q2 only looks like it does because the iPhone 4, with its record-breaking sales, came out right before the end of the quarter. Of course "normal day of sales" for the iPhone probably beats "record-breaking" for any one Android phone, so "record-breaking" is quite relative.
Again, watch your language.
would have been more than compensated for by higher than normal launch sales of iPhone 4’s
True. Now realize that a lot of those sales happened in Q3 due to the iPhone being released at the very end of Q2. Let's see what Q3 looks like.
I have repeatedly pointed out to you, hot new Androids like the Droid X, Galaxy etc were launched very late in Q2/early Q3 as well
But when it comes to people wanting an Android, they had other equivalent choices released earlier in the quarter. The Incredible, EVO and Ally had about a month to exhaust that initial sales boom and were good alternatives to the two you mentioned.
At least it appears you've abandoned your efforts to portray Android a some upstart beating the odds to gain marketshare. Microsoft, Apple, Nokia and RIM are battling it out against the HUGE and POWERFUL Android consortium that has strong players in every segment of the vertical smartphone market.
If the Android consortium so chooses, it could leverage monopoly power to choke out all the competition within months, before any government's anti-trust division could act. It's difficult to make a smartphone without one of those component makers. Samsung alone makes almost half the world's flash memory (with Toshiba two thirds), a third of the RAM, a fifth of the batteries and almost all of the OLED screens. Qualcomm, Samsung, Marvell and TI together manufacture the CPUs used in most of the smartphones in the world, including the iPhone, RIM and Nokia. Broadcom and Qualcomm together make the cell, WiFi and Bluetooth chips for most phones. And of course ARM is a member, and I believe their technology powers pretty much every smartphone on the market.
With that massive industry power behind Android, you sound like you're gloating over the fact that a person can squash a bug.