In: News that isn’t

Android-powered phones outsell Apple’s iPhone. Of course, this is important news for developers. But don’t reach for your handkerchief, for there’s really no reason to pity “poor Apple”. If smart phones represent 50% of the mobile phone market in the US, which either is or will be true very soon, this means that Apple, which before 2007 was selling exactly zero mobile phones, is (or will soon be) selling over 10% of all mobile phones in the US, or just shy of the number of Android-powered phones sold by Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and HTC – combined. And not only that, but they’re doing so with just two models (the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4), charge a premium price, spend zero or close to zero on marketing (at least from what I see here in Europe), get a share of the mobile data traffic they generate from mobile operators, acquire your credit card details and often are able to sell you some stuff via the iTunes store, too. Poor Apple! ;-)

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