Android sales worldwide pass iPhone totals for Q2 2010

And you forgot to mention the inventory shortages for the HTC EVO, INCREDIBLE and DROID X to be fair to Andoid to? Right?

You can walk into any carrier's store and buy an Android right now. iPhone.....get on a waiting list. Supply is not a moot point. The fact that Android is not exclusive to any one carrier in the US is also important.

Several android models. One iPhone. Go jump in a lake.

Wait, which version of Android are we talking about? There are still phones sold with Android 1.6 that may or may not get upgraded. So the Android bunch is large, but it's also an ugly one, even more so than Windows Mobile.

First positive comment in this thread! Thank you!

And you're right :)

Oracle doesn't seem that impressed with Android:

"Oracle has mounted a no-holds-barred legal attack on Google's Android operating system in a lawsuit that accuses the internet giant of deliberately infringing patents and copyrights Oracle holds for the Java platform."
http://tinyurl.com/2u9n9mr

Of course Android outsold Apple. But really, we iPhone users don't care. We're used to being a high-quality second place product. Microsoft outsold Apple in the early days, and Andriod will outsell it now. BFD.

And Apple will continue to invent the impossible, and point the way for other companies to follow in their footsteps. Andriod folks shouldn't pat themselves on the back too much. Their technology is the result of standing on the shoulders of what Apple pioneered.

like i said, this is a similar repeat to what happened in PCs.

apple had the field to itself, very profitable, but it remained very greedy and microsoft basically just licensed its OS to many manufacturers, so of course today globally windows dominates more than 90%+ of the market.

here again, apple sticks to trying to do everything in order to garner all the profits, and again we get another company simply giving its OS to multiple hardware manufacturers.

guess what's gonna happen in the end.

the only difference this time is that apple never even got close to dominating this ecosystem because of Nokia and Blackberry, but you get the point.

and to the person (marc) who says apple is so profitable anyways, you DO know apple went nearly bankrupt before (after microsoft windows wrested control of the PC) and had to be rescued by microsoft right? THINGS CHANGE.

Android appears to be the iOS beater. Gonna happen - period.

Google and Aplle are destined to destroy Microsoft, but unfortunately Apple will remain the number two when things shake out.

Um....Android is on how many different devices...? Oh, Nevermind...

I just don't think Steve Jobs and Apple sit around being sad about "not selling as much as XYZ Company"

Just as sure as Lamborghini, Ducati or Porsche don't care if Ford or GM sells more blue 4 door sedans than them...Seriously, they don't care, nor will they change their strategy or ethos because of it.

This entire article and familiar dialogue of "most sales" misses the entire mindset of Steve Jobs' goal...It makes sense on a TV show like "The Apprentice" but that's it.

They don't seem to have any intention of being dominant in any area except one: Being the BEST OS ( and providing the best user experience and most beautifully designed products and systems...) and letting people decide if it is worth it or not...

So far, it seems to be working out pretty well for them...