Android Becomes Top Mobile Operating System in U.S., No. 2 Worldwide

I think it's important to note this report only covers "smartphones", not all mobile devices.

But a bigger question is: So what?

Wouldn't you say that in the age of the App Store, "revenue per user" seems a much more important statistic than "units shipped"?

Even with Android, it doesn't seem the carriers are evolving their business model much. Apple's the only one seriously carving out new territory in its customers' wallets (and raking in cash because of it).

Does anyone know where that would place it in terms of all operating systems? It seems like the number of mobile and non-mobile devices should be converging pretty quickly (for consumers, at least).

And this is why it is critically important for there to be a way to have an X server on Android so that we can use Android devices to serve up remote display/input sessions, i.e., access client applications running on virtually any OS and any hardware.

It will be interesting to see if the same thing holds this time next year with an iPhone on Verizon.