Apple has sold 4 million phones since launch. I can't determine if I consider that impressive or not. Regardless, 4 million divided by 4 days is 1 million per day, or roughly 100k more per day than Android. It will take android about a week to catch up, and keep Apple in its 28% market-share.The reason I can't determine if I'm impressed or not is this: Some people will say this smartphone war is a war of manufacturers, some will say its a war of individual phones, and some will say its a war of operating systems.
Either way, Apple is in trouble over the next couple of years.
OS vs OS is settled, Android sells WAY more handsets.
Manufacturer vs Manufacturer, Apple wins because they are the only company that makes the iPhone.
Phone vs Phone, Apple wins again, but the Galaxy S II phones is selling extremely well for an individual Android phone. By well I mean about 13 million phones in 6 months, while Apple has sold about 40 million.
So what kind of war is it? The general consensus is a OS war, because that is what format wars have been considered historically.
In the Mac vs PC war of the early 90's, PC has clearly won, and is still winning. Everybody refers to it as Mac vs PC, not Apple vs IBM or Apple vs Gateway, etc.
On the flip side.... (I really tried to think of an argument to make it phone vs phone or manufacturer vs manufacturer and I couldn't..)
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