And the best-selling smartphone at AT&T and Verizon stores is…

Very unbalanced study. Ask any wireless store if they sell more iPhones or Androids, and it will be Android every single time. The fact that Apple gives consumers no choices doesn’t mean it’s more popular, it just means there’s a good way to butcher your statistics.

Lets say they asked Verizon how many phones they sold with Android compared to iphones. I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent. com

Surprise!

im not considering an iphone until it has 4g… get to work, apple…

Wait till it goes to Sprint and Tmobile. So no more thunderbolt crap outselling iPhone ?

ANDROID GOOD!!!!  IOS BAD!!!!

Sigh, the only reason the droids got anywhere was because Verizon didn’t have an iPhone, and because they are always being given away for free. It’s only obvious that the iPhone would be on top where it belongs once it got to the best carrier.

This is a terrible study. What they’re saying is that at 58% of stores, the best seller is the iPhone. What it doesn’t take into account, however, is volume of the stores. For instance, I work in a retail store, and the top selling item in my store last week was one particular watch. And it beat out the nearest competition by nearly double. We sold five of them (we’re a very small, low-volume store). Five watches at a high volume store, such as one of the Las Vegas stores, is one of their lowest sellers. So what if those particular 58% of the stores were also the lowest volume, and the 21% were the highest? I don’t actually think that, but it’s a definite possible confound that the study doesn’t take into account.

I’m not arguing that the iPhone is the best seller on both Verizon and AT&T; my guess is that it is. However, this study is horrible. It’s because of studies like this that statistics (something I’m studying heavily with my major in school, and thoroughly enjoy) get a terrible rap. People conduct poor studies, and then publish their results braying of definite results; when if the numbers are looked at closely – or the study is recreated – then their results would be shown to be anything but definite.

Again, not arguing the popularity of the iPhone – though, in the interest in of full disclosure, I will admit that I am not a fan of the iPhone – merely pointing out the deep flaw of this study.

So, what’s the point here? Every phone manufacturer (but Apple)  has multiple phone models. Some are rather similar. Obviously single model will get less attention. Samsung may have ten models and sell 9.9 times more phones than Apple and each of those models might still be less popular than iPhone.  

Misleading stats since there are always over 10 competing android devices over 2 IOS devices. Since the market share for both OS are almost the same is it natural that the Iphone is the best selling device by default.

Here is a comparable stat:

Apple is the third best selling desktop computer company at the moment. There are no stats on this but since Apple produces only two IMac models (IIRC) at the moment it would not be crazy to hear that the IMac might be in fact the best selling computer model at the moment or not at least not very far since sales of Imacs account for almost 100% of apples sales.  In perspective, there are at least 20 times more PCs sold per year but the due to the wide variety of models offered by a various company, Apple might very well have the best selling computer “model” right now.

This stat is useless and obviously it is not used in the computer world, the same can be said for the smartphone game at the moment.