Apple’s iPhone 4 still top-selling smartphone at AT&T, Verizon in September

I find it simply amazing that there are SOO many iPhone 4 units being sold in the AT&T and Verizon US market… Yet, there are less that 30% of people in the company I work (files the taxes for Verizon Wireless and AT&T as a whole) who actually have iPhone smartphones….. its amazing to me that most people who could get the iPhone in my company for less than retail prefer Android base devices….. VERY INTERESTING 

Its time for what I like to call strategic business economics. People, most business are not measuring the number of units sold per customer. That would be expensive and unethical without a persons consent…  (think of the metric measurement for “albums” sold or viewers tuning in for a broadcast network show). In order to do this, businesses would have to violate personal privacy acts and be liable for massive payouts in lawsuits. (its a FEDERAL LAW PEOPLE!)

As a result, businesses lean on the results from focus groups, and reseach firms who collect survey samples to provide “an estimated real world” number of sales. Here is the kicker….. because its based on a small sampling of people…. vunerability to baises and corruption of data exist heavy. Meaning a person can seek out samples (people for the survey) in specific geographical, demographical, and cultural areas that could ulitmately associate moreso with his/her viewpoints. This is why you may witness a television show that sucks but for some reason its a high rated program….

Its VERY likely that companies like Apple, could be “influencing” certain dynamics with monetary contributions (aka, payola). In case anyone is not understanding what I am hinting towards, I will say this…. Apple is likely INFLUENCING the US market predictions by ensighting phony numbers and payola to numerous focus groups and researching firms to give them a favorable reviews and increasing the amount of units sold… from the manufacturer.

Truth be told, in the grand scheme of things…. if AT&T and Verizon Wireless have each over 88 million subscribers…. is it REALLY a huge amount of sales if only 24 million total units sold (12 million each or 14%) of its subscribers actually purchase iPhones??? (You can’t take into account any execs, musicians, athletes, or other wealthy persons as its been proven that Apple paid anyone performing at its events with FREE iPhones and iPads.)

My point is that companies are notorious for fluffying numbers all the time people… The only way to bypass this is the have a system setup ATPS (at the point of sale)…. and believe it or not, Google has the infrastructure to provide accurate amounts of units sold (as they are selling software to vendors)… Apple on the otherhand does not have the benefit or luxury to have this type of setup handy… (You can’t say iTunes measures it, because iTunes is avaiable on Windows platforms as well. This is the reasoning Apple will soon be exposed and fall from its quick popularity… ESPECIALLY once Windows 8 is unvieled and used. It will quickly become apparent that Apples intent of implementation… will fall short in favor of Google and Microsofts products.

But what do you expect… its a niche product company.. similar to sharper image.

Well duh! You have the best selling phone with the only carriers that had it last month. Hardly a surprise.

Fandroids are a funny bunch, the iphone from 2010 is outselling 2011 Android phones with so called better specs and they are playing it down sayong Android is winning because it has the largest marketshare. Wake up Fandroids!! Samsung doesn’t care that Android has the largest marketshare while Apple keeps selling more phones than it. HTC doesn’t care about Android market share when its selling less than Apple. Android can have 80% marketshare and Apple can have just 5%, but as long as Apple is still selling more devices than Samsung and HTC and other manufacturers, Apple will be fine!!