Apple brushes off NPD's smartphone report, says it sees 'no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon'
By Chris Ziegler 
posted May 11th 2010 2:42PM
posted May 11th 2010 2:42PM
Fresh off NPD's latest Mobile Phone Track report claiming that Android has leapfrogged the iPhone in US sales, Apple is commenting on the numbers -- and as you might expect, they're not exactly taking a congratulatory tone with Google. Speaking to AllThingsD's John Paczkowski, Cupertino had this to say:The factual accuracy of Apple's words here can't really be disputed, but as Paczkowski notes, the context can: lumping the iPod touch into this equation isn't really fair, since NPD's report is about smartphones, not mobile operating systems (which would've let devices like non-phone Android MIDs into the picture). Besides, this is about the US market in the first quarter of 2010, not global sales, nor is it about Apple's development pipeline. In other words, Apple's not disputing NPD's report here -- rather, they're simply trying to change the subject, as any properly-trained PR department would. There's no question Android still has an uphill battle to dominate market (and mind) share the world over, but the odds that it outsold the iPhone in the US in Q1 remain very real."This is a very limited report on 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide. IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1 percent of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android on a worldwide basis. We had a record quarter with iPhone sales growing by 131 percent and with our new iPhone OS 4.0 software coming this summer, we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon."
"since NPD's report is about smartphones, not mobile operating systems"
Exactly. So why are we comparing Android (which IS a mobile OS) to the iPhone?
@jaffreywali
Your logic fails miserably.
This quote...
"and with our new iPhone OS 4.0 software coming this summer, we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon."
...is mind blowingly dumb. Is Apple suffering from the affects of their own reality distortion field?
A true comparison between Google and Apple would be straight iPhone to N1 sales. Of course Android is going to be bigger the the the iPhone OS. Google is giving it away to everyone. It only makes sense that Android will be on more phones. Device manufactures are sitting back and reaping the benefits of Googles work. The only thing that manufactures do is skin it with their own themes and maybe add an app. Apple has the best selling "phone". That can not be denied.
apple is being very cocky. they now have microsoft's pc arrogance in the mobile field. the thing is, microsoft can brag if they want because win7 gave them a higher pedestal to sit on, but with android rapidly gaining market, win7 and symbian reboots on their way, apple shouldn't be ignoring the facts.
I hate how well the next iPhone will sell just because people who don't know any better think it's the best phone on the market. Apple can't do anything but try and make others look bad to cloud the fact that they really aren't elite
@Hopper6 People don't buy phones simply because they think they are the best on the market. People buy specific phones because they are the best phone for them.