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Comment by rimantas | Hacker News Reader

Looks like this kind of comparison is there to stay:

  As of now, they’re selling around 90K iPhones per day
  compared to around 60K Android handsets. It’s a horse race!

How about "they're selling X Macbook Air's compared to Y Win machines". Does this version sound right?

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I don't consider the comparison wrong in this context. We are talking about Operating Systems here. Not phones.

In other contexts it might be wrong, however.

Not including the iPod Touch is a mistake, in my opinion. Also, you have to account for the issues with apps on different versions of Android. I'd love this competition to be as close as the article makes it out to be, but I don't think it's there quite yet.

Even in this case iPhone OS sells only on two devices (so far) and Android is on ~20 I assume.

Android might be catching up, but it is also fragmented. When developing for Android you don't know what features the phone has. It's going the way of Java Mobile.

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