Android Blows Past iPhone, Even If You Include iPod Touch

Google Android has come out of nowhere within the last couple of many years to kick Apple's butt in smartphone marketplace share.

1 common rebuttal among Apple followers has always been some thing like, "yeah, properly, add the iPod touch to Apple's iPhone numbers, and you'll see a different tale."

It's accurate. Incorporating the iPod touch does make Apple's iOS shipments and market share bigger than should you dismiss it, and it narrows the gap with Android.


But it created a significantly greater argument a year back.

The truth is, simply because the smartphone market, Google Android, as well as the iPhone are all expanding significantly faster than Apple's iPod touch business, adding the iPod touch to Apple's iPhone stats actually helps make iOS's marketplace share scaled-down than it had been a year ago.

Specifically, even though the smartphone marketplace nearly doubled year-over-year in Q4 to about 101 million models, according to Canalys, the iPod touch only grew 27% year-over-year to about ten million models.

Indeed, the iPod touch makes Apple's iOS fairly bigger, and is essential for your iOS app platform, specifically for gaming. However it doesn't help the market share development argument as opposed to Android, due to the fact every thing else is expanding significantly faster than the iPod touch. (See data table beneath)

This chart reveals Android's marketplace share soaring from Q4 2009 to Q4 2010, whether the iPod touch is incorporated in the general marketplace or not. Apple's market share is significantly greater once the iPod touch is integrated, as well as the gap with Android is smaller. But the iPod touch actually hurts Apple's marketplace share growth year-over-year.

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