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Apple's iPhone may have outsold Android nearly 6-to-1

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Yes and ...?

I'm sorry but Android will come on like a quiet tidal surge and soon you'll see 10-20 models running it (each with moderate sales). It will make the iPhone look like a (still very profitable) niche product in comparison.

Hopefully in the next iteration the GPhone won't have an abysmal keyboard, terrible build quality etc. If they get those right they could make some headway.

I have an iPhone and a GPhone... The iPhone's hardware feels vastly superior to the google phone. That being said, I strongly prefer Android to the the iPhone OS (I'm not sure what the actual designation is for iPhone OS X).

I also prefer writing software for Android; it feels less restrictive to me.

It will be interesting to see where the chips are stacked after a couple of years.

It can't help that the only Android phone on the market currently is on T-Mobile. T-Mobile is a deal breaker.

You could say the same thing about the iPhone being locked to ATT. Personally, I consider ATT to be a deal breaker so I never gave any consideration to the iPhone. I really don't care how good of a phone it is. On the other hand, I have been with T-Mobile for 5 years and like the service so the G1 was an easy choice. I'm sure there are plenty of others that would say the same thing about either carrier as well. I doubt the choice of carrier had much impact on the bottom line relative to the iPhone.

Depends where you live. Some places tmobile has terrible coverage and ATT has good coverage. For me tmobile is a deal breaker but I would happily use ATT.

What a dumb title. Its like saying "the MacBook Pro outsold Linux 10-to-1!" It doesn't make any sense. They're really talking about the G1, not Android.

It's not dumb. As a developer I care about install base and this is a valid comparison.

No, its not. No one is selling Android, they're selling the G1. The iPhone can't outsell Android because it's freely available software meant to run on a multitude of devices. You can't compare a single device to a platform that is currently only available on one device. If you're basing your decisions as a developer on this information, you're missing the big picture.

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