Android adoption rate increasing six times faster than iPhone

[justinian]

ethomaz said:

WOW She expects 1 phone model to sell 80 million in one quarter... AMAZING if that happened.

Of course the Android adoption rate is better... you can found Android phones from $10 to $500 with zillion models... iPhone is $300-500 range with one model... here she said the obvious.

That right there is why in terms of money and profit Apple is such a beast. (Even if 80m is optimistic)

From the software point of view:

Manufacturers pay nothing for Android and "pennies" for Windows RT... sure if you look hard enough you can fnd details online.

So even if Windows RT (excluding surface) and Android greatly outsell iOS, Apple comes out far richer.

From the hardware point of view:

Android's flagship Samsung is making damn good money.

Apple collects on every piece of hardware.

Surface is wait and see for MS.

Nokia windows 8 phone is looking disappointing.