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The thing is, you can point to Android's increasing marketshare, but what you're forgetting is that this is NOT a zero sum game. Android's success does not imply Apple's failure.

Android is gaining a lot of sales, but iPhone is still gaining sales, just at a lower rate


Fiscal Year Q1 [Oct-Dec] Q2 [Jan-Mar] Q3 [Apr-Jun] Q4 [Jul-Sep] Total sold
2007 270,000[1] 1,119,000[2] 1,389,000
2008 2,315,000[3] 1,703,000[4] 717,000[5] 6,890,000[6] 11,625,000
2009 4,363,000[7] 3,793,000[8] 5,208,000[9] 7,367,000[10] 20,731,000
2010 8,737,000[11] 8,752,000[12] 8,398,000[13] 14,102,000[14] 39,989,000
2011 16,240,000[15] 18,650,000[16] 20,340,000[17] 17,070,000[18] 72,300,000
2012 37,044,000[19] 35,100,000[20] 26,000,000[21] 26,900,000[22] 125,044,000
2013 47,800,000[23] 47,800,000
Fiscal Year Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Excuse the poor formatting.

But iPhone sales have increased significantly each year, and 2013 has a 10M unit advantage over 2012 for the first quarter.