http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/ Engadget Comments for NPD: Android is now top-selling OS in American smartphones http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
What the hell are you saying?]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
What? How'd that comment get there?]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
Obviously its going to sell like crazy, if its free to license.]]>Aug 4th 2010 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
Androids platform is #1, because its free, and anyone can license it.

If it were truly #1, that means that their devices would have to also be #1.

This is media taking some data, and using it to the advantage that they have.]]>Aug 4th 2010 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/IOS killed]]>Aug 4th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
The Galaxy S and SuperSonic (Evo!) is No1, what're you on about?]]>Aug 4th 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
The only options for hardware makers were WinMo, Symbian and now Android. So I'd like to think that Android wins purely on features and looks, not cost.

Also - companies like Motorola and HTC pump millions into development of their own Android apps and components, so the OS isn't exactly "free".

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Biggest mistake by Apple- exclusivity with AT&T. I know us techies love android, but I know a whole bunch of regular people who want an iPhone but are stuck on a different carrier and are 'settling' for something that's ''similar''.

I know I'm gonna get downranked for this, but if the iPhone was on Verizon and Sprint there would be a lot more iPhones sold and a lot less Android phones sold.]]>Aug 4th 2010 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
In the end, the contract with AT&T will probably go down as one of Apples biggest mistakes ever made. ]]>Aug 4th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
I'm curious to see what the next quarter's sales figures will be. If the results are the same, then yeah - Android is the new "king of the hill". ]]>Aug 4th 2010 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
I'm going to make a completely random guess here and claim that 80% of iPhone 4 buyers already owned an iPhone, 3G or 3GS - so their 4G purchase isn't going to raise numbers that much.

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Large companies understand that "free to license" doesn't mean much when you figure in in-house development and support costs, and it's often cheaper to pay a reasonable license fee for stable well-supported code. I'm pretty sure that if Android were a piece of junk that needed a lot of custom development work before being fit for production they wouldn't touch it, free or not.

Therefore, I think it's fair to conclude that companies like Motorola, Samsung, HTC etc. have found that Android is good enough on its own to allow them to create compelling and desirable products, irrespective of its free status.

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You sir are an idiot...Do you think Apple making billions off of iPhone sales is a mistake? It isn't like they are in the red, they are FAR from it! lol

And of course there would still be Android. Do you think everyone in the world wants 1 company to dictate what their phone should and shouldn't do? It is all about choice!! ]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/You're an idiot!
"Comparing apples to a bushel of oranges" there is no pun because they are both plural you idiot.
Nice try with the slight and the fake congratulations ]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
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Thats a short term look at things. This phone war is no different from the PC wars of the 1980's.

Apple sat on their a$$ tried to become exclusive and tried to demand developers around their way. What happened - Microsoft came out with a more 'open' OS and we know how that went, mac os is a niche platform with 5% of marketshare.

The same thing will happen with iphone, less developers will be motivated to target iphone os when competing platforms have well above 90% marketshare (in a few years), and then you will have the same as the mac - less developers making software for it and a device for a niche.

At one time the mac dominated, and all developers flocked to it - mostly because that was where the money and marketshare was it, once that fell apart everyone flocked to the bigger platform and that hasnt changed for 30 years. iPhone already within 3 years is getting put to the curb.

Apple once was the biggest seller of computers = no longer the case
Apple once was the biggest seller of phones = no longer the case]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
It's a comparison of SMART PHONE OS sales numbers. It's not a comparison of which manufacturer or carrier is "the best one". Jesus Christ. Is it that hard to understand?]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
It would probably even have a sliding keyboard and 100's of custom roms.

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Sure you can... when you realize that the iPhone is still the best phone in the world, still has the best App ecosystem, still has the best media, still has 100 million iOS devices already in people's hands...And Google hasn't done anything to take market cap away from Apple... Apple keeps going up and GOOG keeps going down.

I guess thats cuz Google doesn't sell phones, or OSes.

Oops.]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
I'm an Apple fan but that's the reality.]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
That exclusivity is what made Apple billions in profit. AT&T paid for that exclusivity in the form of high subsidy to the phone. If there were several carriers offering the phone, the device would have been more expensive to the customer up-front.

The AT&T exclusivity was a very lucrative move by Apple. But time will tell if it was a good long-term strategy.]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
I'll bite: by pointing out this was, before iphone 4, and really doesn't mean anything compared to the world wide share (where ATT isn't a problem)...

Apple's not 'locked to one Carrier' in every market, girls.

Oh yeah, and then there's the lawsuit against HTC...

*snickers]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/You are joking right?
You must mean RIM killer.
]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/I can't agree it was a big mistake... With Apple's pricing model, they had no choice but to lock in with a carrier who would subsidize the phone. The majority of the buying public would not pay the unsubsidized cost of an iPhone.
So... 2 options. Shave your margins, or lock in with a carrier to pay a chunk of it. They chose option 2, and have sold a lot of phones as a result. And since they were able to keep their high margins, they have made quite a lot of money for themselves and their shareholders.
I'm saying all this as a semi-educated consumer. I decided to get an iPhone knowing full well I was locking into AT&T. I'm not crazy about it, but I can live with it.]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/=
Sure, Engadget, you can vote with your "brains" for Apple. Because this is how you translate this news.
F* off & make sure you don't drop your shiny glass phone. Because you may crack his quality. ]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
I agree; the Android OS is a success, and iPhone still is doing record numbers. There's plenty of room for everyone here.

iPhone is dead - long live the iPhone...]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Uhh no. Q2 incledes June any ip4l
Launch]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/Aug 4th 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
No more iPhone Killer, now it's Android Killer bitches!
iPhone 5, the new Android Killer?!]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/

"Android were a piece of junk that needed a lot of custom development work before being fit for production they wouldn't touch it, free or not."

Hahahah, and MS gets royalties from the OEMs whenever they ship Android... So funny...
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Don't discount the power of Free and Open. Not only is there no charge, but you have the source code, to make changes and you don't have to worry as much that provider will change the terms on you, or let it stagnate like Microsoft did with old WinMo.

I see Android staying on top for years to come...

I am not a fanboy of any sort. Android/Apple/Rim will all do well, all backed by North American companies. It is all good. I think Nokia is going to hurt more.

Nice to see Motorola back in the game on Phone design as well. ]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
I don't think a WHOLE lot of more iPhones would be sold and a whole lot less of Androids would be sold. Infact, it could actually be the opposite. iPhones are known for having build quality issues and that bad publicity would be more widespread thus leading to bad reputation and lower sales. Right now the exclusive deal with ATT gives people iPhone envy and so it creates Apple hype. I for one am not tricked into by hype and see through the lies of Steve Jobs and all the cApple issues. So it's very possible that iPhone sales would be less then what they are now because more people would know about these issues and would lead people into NOT wanting an iPhone.]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/
A change in the release date of iPhone 4 wouldn't have changed this.]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/npd-android-is-now-top-selling-os-in-american-smartphones/I knew this day was going to come.
Happy Nexus One owner here.
Next Step: Android tablets (+ TV) ]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:23AM