[bhartman36]

Originally Posted by RockdaMan

No, your point was that Apple iPhone sales were slowing and that Apple was being trounced.

If that's what I said, why did you link to a post where I didn't say that?

You can see what I originally said here.

Originally Posted by bhartman36

People haven't stopped completely buying HP/Palm phones, but I think it's safe to say they're trounced. I don't necessarily think the iPhone is being trounced, but clearly, the bar is a little bit lower than you imply here.

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Originally Posted by RockdaMan

In no sense of the word is that happening when they are breaking both their own sales and profit records quarter by quarter.

As I've said, quarter to quarter increases don't, alone, tell you how the iPhones are doing against the competition.

Originally Posted by RockdaMan

But lets divorce the OS from the discussion and talk about the hardware -- after all, Apple does both hw and sw while Google mostly does just one (rightly so--wasn't the nexus one a sales disaster?)

How many of Google's partners (HTC, Samsung, etc) have a single cell phone model that is outsells the iPhone on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis?

I don't know of any. Probably, the closest to iPhone status was the Droid (although I don't know how many they sold). But you're never going to see that phenomenon with Android, because the platform offers more choice. If you want iOS, you have to accept whatever hardware Apple throws at it. If you like Android, you've got dozens of choices in phones. I would find it extraordinary if any one piece of Android hardware took a commanding lead.