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The Android juggernaut keeps on rolling: comScore estimates Google's (GOOG) OS accounted for...

  • Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:16 PM ET
    The Android juggernaut keeps on rolling: comScore estimates Google's (GOOG) OS accounted for 43.7% of U.S. smartphone users as of August, up 1.9% from July, and 3.6% from June. The iPhone's (AAPL) share rose 0.3% from July, while Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerrys saw a 2% decline. (Nielsen data)
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  • Roid Junkernaut is more like it.

    iPhone 4S will outsell all these posers.
    6 Oct 2011, 07:13 PM Reply Like
  • no way, 1 milion iPhone 4S on first day for three network operators is equal to 330 thousand for operator which is less than 600,000 in one day for AT&T and iPhone 4
    10 Oct 2011, 05:46 PM Reply Like
  • so iPhone 4 was 600,000 with AT&T and now we are seeing 1 million with AT&T, Verizon & Sprint, does this mean that it is less iPhones sold than before or what ? 600,000 x 3 = 1.8 million doesn't it ?
    10 Oct 2011, 05:53 PM Reply Like
  • More sales is more sales. More networks have been proping up the Android junk, but that Roid advantage is evaporating. And the image of Roid is sinking fast. Lots of people were willing to try it, and lots of misinformed haters have talked people out of iPhone (BOGO offers have also helped the droid). All of these advantages are GONE now.

    iPhone is ZERO DOLLARS NOW on contract. Ooops!

    Roid is unfit for corporate use due to total lack of security. Oops!

    So is RIM BB, only for total lack of functionality (all they ever had was security). You need functionality, even in business, for no other reason than keeping your employees happy. Oops!

    iPhone is the last man standing.

    Siri artificial intelligence will drive sales of the high end 4S. The low cost and reliability/image will drive the rest, along with iOS iPad strategy for which Android has NO ANSWER. iPad = 97% of the 'tablet' market.

    Android has already lost the business market, and is WAY BEHIND in browser share and internet use. For instance, the photo web sites show that iPhone is well above the point and shoot cameras in use. Android is nowhere close. They have 8MP cameras that no photog would be caught dead using. No decent color, no decent image tools, no HDR built in, etc… Much of the problem for Roid is the userbase. A bunch of cheapskates who really aren't using the Roid much, just toe wetting. The serious users/ buyers are getting iPhone.
    11 Oct 2011, 09:47 AM Reply Like
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