Android growth lags: Verizon focusing on the iPhone

Their might be lag because the last few phones all have the same features and all have one core. In a few weeks/month the 1st set of dual core android phones will come out with already released android 2.3 and maybe soon to come 3.0, like the LG star with dualcore A9 1ghz chips with Nvidia’s Tegra 2 chips and will be able to record in 1080p and output via hdmi in 1080p, 8mp cameras and front facing camera.
Once the dual core come their will more growth towards Android compared to competition.

Verzion is gearing themselves for a big year coming up. The android mecha was suppose to come out last month. Instead it got pushed to janurary. So now the iphone n mecha (incredible hd) will battle it out. Also android dual core processors coming out next year.

Way to misread the data!! According to the Comscores compared in the linked article, Between June and September, Android experienced a 6.5% increase in marketshare, indicating a 2.17% average increase in marketshare per month. Between July and October, Android experienced an identical 6.5% increase in marketshare, showing the average marketshare growth per month remained 2.17%.

To verify this, if we look at the average marketshares ending in September (21.4%) and October (23.5%), we have a point difference of 2.1%. The linked article takes this 2.1% and multiplies it by 3 to get an effective (but imaginary) growth rate of 6.3%, and uses this number to indicate that marketshare growth has decreased by 0.2% from the stated 6.5%. This difference can possibly be explained by rounding error however since we're only accurate to 1/10 of a percent.

One the other hand, if you look at the iOS numbers over the 4 months expressed in these Comscores (June 24.3%, October 24.6%) you see a marketshare growth of 0.3% between June and October. During the same time frame, Android showed a marketshare growth of 8.6% (June 14.9%, October 23.5%).

All this said, I imagine there is some pent up demand for the iPhone on Verizon, but my guess is that it is MUCH less than it would have been if Apple launched a Verizon iPhone before Android took hold. Things are not as rosy for Apple as this article makes it appear. Growth is pretty much flat, and Apple needs other carriers to change this.

If Android sales growth is lagging, then the iPhone sales must be putting back to a halt by comparison over the past few months? I wonder why you wouldn't mention that ?

Besides, since when did Android sales growth is slowing ? Just because you picked up from another site called Electronista like you're a tape recorder? Don't ask your reader to show you the figures, as an editor you're the one who's supposed to do all the home work.

Now for your education (if you don't feel ashamed to be educated by your reader):

Apr-10 Jul-10 Point Change
Google 12.0% 17.0% 5.0

May-10 Aug-10 Point Change
Google 13.0% 19.6% 6.6

Jun-10 Sep-10 Point Change
Google 14.9% 21.4% 6.5

Jul-10 Oct-10 Point Change
Google 17.0% 23.5% 6.5

I don't see the sales rate has slowing in Oct-10, in fact, the AugSep growth was 21.4-19.6= 1.8% , but Sep Oct grwoth was 23.5-21.4 = 2.1%, which is an increase over the September.

If you can't get the math right, I can show you how to do it. But if your brain logic is messed up by Steve Jobs, this is something I can't help you with.

android is far superior to the iphone. lets hope for verizon to get exclusivity so that apple can be buried again by it's own closed mindedness the same way microsoft took then down the first time.

You can always tell an apple fanboi blog when you read it, atleast this one had the decency to admit it in his about the author section. Kudos on that part man.

The author is missing the success that Android is having worldwide like Europe, China, Australia, Latin America etc... where there is no issue of multiple carriers for the iPhone. And the Android phones are royally kicking its behind. So maybe the author would like to explain how is it possible for Android to be beating the crap out of the iPhone in places where both are in multiple carriers... certainly I for one would love to hear his explanation.