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Interesting if true, but it reminds me a bit of the xbox360 vs ps3 vs wii "which sold most" fan fights of the past where each side quoted only the most favourable numbers for their favourite. I guess the real challenge will be when Android results come out (presumably not until the next quarter?).

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Yet this isn't really the same, because it's not necessarily about who outsells whom. That's just added icing on the cake in terms of this article. The real significance though is how the iPhone has so swiftly become both a major success and a revenue stream on the same scale as the Mac and iPod divisions for Apple. In less than eight years the company has transformed itself from a company reliant on a single niche product to one with three mostly independent but self-reinforcing and financially lucrative sales pillars. That transition is nothing less than remarkable.

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