Android gaining on iOS in international market share

I think by most, accurate accounts, iOS phones still outnumber Android in the US. It is interesting to see how the Android market kills models in a matter of weeks, it shows how dynamic things currently are for Android phone development.

Lets see. Aren't the numbers a bit skewed here. Admob is owned by Google. And lets see, doesn't Google give away one phone free with everyone you purchase. So lets see, the numbers are actually only half of what they say they are. But then again, Google and their fanboys always talk like the numbers are higher than they really are.

WOW google gives away one phone free with every purchase?? That's news to me?? Perhaps your talking about Verizon's "buy 1 smart phone get 1 free" deal. but note it never says google.
And yes I do think these numbers are gonna be skewed, but I do believe the Android OS is catching the iOS

Android is catching up fast, and apple's supply issues are not helping matters. So far, about 80% of the people who got an iphone4 are switching from an older iPhone. That means that they have gotten almost no market share from this release. On top of that, no one is willing to buy a 3GS anymore since it is outdated now (it was outdated when it was new, but that is another story). On the other side of the isle is android; offering a huge selection of phones on every carrier, and with various budgets and performance needs addressed by different models. Some phones do have supply shortages, but that seems to be limited mostly to the EVO...it isn't difficult to buy an incredible...no lines, no fist fights.

That BOGO deal is great if you have someone else that needs one in you immediate family, but if you get that deal, you now have two contracts for two years each, and you cannot buy the phone for someone else; it will be billed to your account. Because of this, most of those bogo offers go unused. My dad and I both bought the droid at about the same time, and they were offering bogo on it. We both need to write off our phones, and thus must have the bills in our own names. Because of this, we both had to buy the phone; I could not get the bogo deal for him, even if he signed the contract. Rest assured that no one is taking the BOGO deal just to have an extra phone as a backup or something.

Thats not to mention all those people out there with older HTC devices running windows mobile and early iphones which are now running android instead of the original OS.

Go Google Go Google Go Google

Ohh ive actually just noticed that a full working ports avalible for my htc tytn II, so as they now do turn by turn sat nav in europe i may give the latest port a spin.

http://www.androidonhtc.com/wiki/Port_Status
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/62041396/linux-here-we-come

Originally posted by why4:

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Lets see. Aren't the numbers a bit skewed here. Admob is owned by Google. And lets see, doesn't Google give away one phone free with everyone you purchase. So lets see, the numbers are actually only half of what they say they are. But then again, Google and their fanboys always talk like the numbers are higher than they really are.

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This is crap all it means is that iphone users go online more than everyone else not that there are that much more of them

Originally posted by xyqo:

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This is crap all it means is that iphone users go online more than everyone else not that there are that much more of them

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