NPD Group: Android top selling smartphone platform in U.S. for Q2

By on Aug 4, 2010 at 11:39 AM
General August 4, 2010

The NPD Group, “provider of reliable and comprehensive consumer and retail information for a wide range of industries,” has just published a report that indicates the Android operating system has outsold both RIM and Apple in Q2 of 2010. For the first time since Q4 of 2007, RIM has been ousted as the top selling OS in the States. NPD’s report states that Android held 33% of sales in Q2, with RIM at 28% (formerly 37%) and Apple at 22%. The top-five selling Android handsets in the quarter were the: Motorola DROID, HTC DROID Incredible, HTC EVO 4G, HTC Hero, and HTC DROID Eris. For those still skeptical… the invasion has begun.

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  • patrick

    Apparently people have chosen android. That is not in question its a fact. So all you people that think that only techies respond to android please reread and go wipe your ass with your iphone. There’s an app for that. Now that android has taken over- watch out apple app store and hello Android Market.

    • serpentor

      I think Jobs underestimate how tech savvy the average consumer is today. I’m not saying there aren’t anymore luddites, but we already have a generation that grew up with the internet and cell phones and that number will keep growing as time goes on.

  • Droid X

    Yessuh!!!!!! Lets go Droid!

    There is POWER in numbers.

  • patrick

    @miked
    I buy apps on android and support devs as much as I care to. And you have done a lot of talking yet have said verry little.
    true, gingerbread will nring it home but the numbers argue against anything you have said.

    • MikeD

      @Patrick

      Weak… What does as much “as much as I care to” mean? Sounds like a “I pirate” to me. Which is why the devs are bitching. So the numbers don’t mean diddle to them.

      Profit. Plain and simple is what keeps Devs, and other businesses alive. Google has the perfect angle where they don’t have to profit from their OS at all. They profit from Blackberry and iPhone users when they browse the web and tap ads or use a google app. Android is just a gateway that the phone makers have to eat the cost of building and supporting of the devices. Whether Android becomes #1 or not, Google will make money no matter what.

      No hate. Thats business.

    • MikeD

      By the wat @Patrick

      Google is about to start tightening the noose. They plan to curb pirating.

      http://www.droid-life.com/2010/07/28/android-market-ready-to-crack-down-on-piracy/

      • patrick

        no pirating here. I go to the market look under top free or top paid and go from there. If it is a free app and I really like it then I go to the devs page and donate if available.Sometimes there are apps that are not available in the market and I sideload those apps free or not. So sorry dude, not a crook here. Maybe you are projecting, who knows

      • MikeD

        In no way did I mean to directly accusing you of such act. Apologies if it seemed that way to you.

        Time for a Beer summit. ;-)

  • reusable

    No doubt because left handed iPhone users are switching to Android due to antenna issues.

  • neo

    buy one get one free?

  • TIP

    there are more android phones on all carriers…of course they will out beat everyone haha.

    The people bringing up Apple as an attempt to make a joke are children. An adult would know that android wins because of saturation, not because of pure quality.

    The only way Android could measure quality vs an Iphone would be if Android only made one phone. Since they didn’t then well this whole stat is laughable.

    Apples and Oranges and the fandroid eat it up like children.

  • Barack Hussein Obama

    Quality > Quantity, Iphone > Android

    • endless

      actually, pretty sure mr obama is a blackberry kinda guy.

      • UberSapian

        If Google supported socialized medicine he would switch.

  • CJ Iceman

    I can hold mine any way I want

  • patrick

    @miked
    Cheers.

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