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Part of the issue is that that list compares individual manufacturers to each other. When you go that route you usually see that the iphone is the best individual selling model of phone at each carrier. But when you compare ios devices vs android devices in total you see that android wins handily. I just a story about the latest quarterly figures from Gartner research showing android with about 64% of the smartphone market. Apple and its ios devices took about 19%. It's also usually the case that Apple has huge sales and market share numbers in the quarter when a new iphone is released as all the existing base goes to upgrade then falls off the following quarters.

 

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/gartner-global-mobile-sales-down-2-smartphones-surge-43-apple-stalls-as-fans-hold-out-for-new-iphone/

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If we define market share by sales, then the stats should be a reasonably accurate depiction. But they certainly do not reflect actual subscriber-device share on AT&T and T-Mobile, since both carriers use SIM cards and cannot prevent subs from swapping devices. For example, it is well known that roughly one million out of contract iPhones are on T-Mobile accounts (i.e. ~3 percent share), yet the T-Mobile stats show zilch for Apple.

 

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If we define market share by sales, then the stats should be a reasonably accurate depiction. But they certainly do not reflect actual subscriber-device share on AT&T and T-Mobile, since both carriers use SIM cards and cannot prevent subs from swapping devices. For example, it is well known that roughly one million out of contract iPhones are on T-Mobile accounts (i.e. ~3 percent share), yet the T-Mobile stats show zilch for Apple.

 

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I noticed that too! I have a T-Mobile SIM in my 3Gs right now. It's not active yet, but I am considering it as a backup.

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