Steve Jobs confirms: Android outselling iPhone

[icebike]

Steve Jobs confirms: Android outselling iPhone - Google 24/7 - Fortune Tech

Steve Jobs said today that Apple has sold 3 million iPhone 4's in just 22 days. That's pretty impressive, but Google announced yesterday ? and at the Droid X announcement last month ? that it is activating 160,000 Android devices per day. Multiply that out by 22 days and you get over 3.5 million devices sold.

This is pretty interesting. Ant the 160,000 Android devices activating per day is prior to all of the new releases of phones in the month since that statement was made.

I think Android has reached the Tipping point.

 

[Kyle Gibb]

I'd like to see hard sales numbers from Google, but this is still insanely impressive.

 

[Droid800]

Steve Jobs confirms: Android outselling iPhone - Google 24/7 - Fortune Tech



This is pretty interesting. Ant the 160,000 Android devices activating per day is prior to all of the new releases of phones in the month since that statement was made.

I think Android has reached the Tipping point.

It is impressive, but you also have to recognize that its an apples and oranges (no pun intended) comparison. There are how many devices, compared to how many iPhone models? If you were to take one of the better selling Android models (or two) and compare it to the iPhone, it would be fair. But taking that raw 160,000 number compared to just the iPhone isn't exactly legitimate.

 

[jdbower]

It depends on what you're counting. Apple binds together hardware and software sales so they're unique in the entire industry - closer to the gaming console market than the computer market. To me the hardware is ancillary and fleeting, today's shiny is tomorrow's paperweight. But it's the OS that lives long and prospers (couldn't resist, been playing with the Tricorder app too much). My current phone is made by Motorola, my next could be by anyone but there's a very strong chance the OS will be Android.

With a larger installed base of people who use their smartphones as nature intended rather than just for email and BBM you cease to have the web being shaped by Apple and start having the web being shaped by Google and Apple. Suddenly Apple can't single-handedly destroy Flash and they actually have to play nicely with the de facto standards rather than inventing their own. Suddenly developers can choose to live under Apple's iron fist of control or under Google's world of open chaos without worrying about market share.

 

[Droid800]

It depends on what you're counting. Apple binds together hardware and software sales so they're unique in the entire industry - closer to the gaming console market than the computer market. To me the hardware is ancillary and fleeting, today's shiny is tomorrow's paperweight. But it's the OS that lives long and prospers (couldn't resist, been playing with the Tricorder app too much). My current phone is made by Motorola, my next could be by anyone but there's a very strong chance the OS will be Android.

With a larger installed base of people who use their smartphones as nature intended rather than just for email and BBM you cease to have the web being shaped by Apple and start having the web being shaped by Google and Apple. Suddenly Apple can't single-handedly destroy Flash and they actually have to play nicely with the de facto standards rather than inventing their own. Suddenly developers can choose to live under Apple's iron fist of control or under Google's world of open chaos without worrying about market share.

And yet developers aren't fleeing from Apple. Think what you want about Apple's ecosystem, but developers still see them as a bigger source of revenue and visibility. If Google tied up those loose ends, they would be able to put apple in a stranglehold.

 

[jdbower]

And yet developers aren't fleeing from Apple.

There's no reason for them to now. You've got a lot of FUD from Apple saying how awful developing for Android is, Android has half the market share (compared to a tenth last year), and the iPhone still gets the media attention. Neither system is perfect (note my description of Google's marketplace as "chaotic"), but my point is that it's the growth of ANDROID and not the growth of Motorola/HTC/Samsung that will create the tipping point.

 

[stalker]

wow.. really impressive.. google is kicking a$$ of apple.. good to see that.. and yeah after all we will have multiple choice of phone, carrier and OS (custom ROMS) etc..

 

[jahoobob]

It is impressive, but you also have to recognize that its an apples and oranges (no pun intended) comparison. There are how many devices, compared to how many iPhone models? If you were to take one of the better selling Android models (or two) and compare it to the iPhone, it would be fair. But taking that raw 160,000 number compared to just the iPhone isn't exactly legitimate.

However, if you find that, say, the Eris has a problem with the antenna you can buy an X. "If" the new Apple phone has the same problem your only choice is to buy a a Job prophylactic. There is no mePhone to substitute for the iPhone.

 

[PM-Performance]

this wouldnt surprise me and will be more over more time.
Look at the amount ofAndroid based phones over all the carriers opposed to the amount of versions of Iphones on a single carrier.
If Apple can ever get this to other carriers, Im sure the numbers will be significantly different, but Android is playing with sooo many platforms across all the carriers now.

 

[VDub2174]

There is no mePhone to substitute for the iPhone.

Is the mePhone scheduled to come out soon?

 

[ohthebaby]

aka the way it should be

 

[NexusOne]

This is pretty interesting. Ant the 160,000 Android devices activating per day is prior to all of the new releases of phones in the month since that statement was made.

I think Android has reached the Tipping point.

Did you add the iPad and iPod Touch sales?

Also, activating 160k doesn't equal selling 160k/day. This could just mean returns and exchanges as well. I noticed how they chose the word activating vs. selling. I've seen Google mention "selling" before, so why not now? I guess we'll never know.

 

[jdbower]

Actually the sales figures have supported Android outselling Apple for quite some time, in Q1 Android-based devices started outselling Apple OS-based devices:
U.S. Android Sales Beat iPhone in Q1 - Study

More interesting are the trending, Apple's pretty flat while Android, well, isn't.

FYI, this graph represents sales figures more that actual marketshare. Android is still about half the installed base of the iPhone which is in turn about half of RIM. We're on par with WinMo and well ahead of Palm.

 

[lemcoe9]

As much as I love android, they wouldn't have used the words activation and devices for no reason.

Either way, android rocks.

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