advertisement advertisement Statistics, arguments, sales figures, and passionate explanations claiming one or another smartphone platform has sold or will sell more than another in a specific market might litter the web for a while to come. But, really, it’s all over but the shoutin’. “Android outselling iPhone by two to one in the UK,” states one headline. “Android was the only OS whose sales grew in all markets it surveys,” goes another. And remember this one from last year: “Android sales overtake iPhone in the US.” You could be forgiven for thinking that like a tide sweeping the world, Google’s smartphone/erstwhile tablet OS has decisively won the smartphone wars and has been busy digging itself in, reinforcing its positions, and mopping up the entrails of survivors it’s slain. After all, RIM’s sales are in trouble, Nokia’s future is in serious doubt, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 plans haven’t borne fruit yet, and HP/Palm’s great webOS experiment is dead in the water. The only competitor to Android is Apple’s iPhone, which started it all off, but Android fans love to point out Apple’s outsold by Android handsets pretty much everywhere. Android powers a huge list of phones, with different capabilities from different manufacturers, across… Read full this story
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