Neck & Neck →
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More notably, things will never be level as there are hundreds of Android devices for sale in the U.S. There is one iPhone (3 models with a few different configurations). Look at the chart again. 1 phone nearly outsold hundreds of phones. Big launch or not, that’s amazing.
That’s the thing I think people forget too easily. Imagine if during the late ’90s, the Windows ecosystem existed exactly as it was, but Apple only had one computer: the Mac. And then imagine seeing numbers like these.
There’s a huge difference between a software platform and a device. The term “iPhone” describes both; the term “Android” does not. As Tim Carmody at Wired opined, even labeling a device as running “Android” is misleading.