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RE: Comparing an OS to a device
By HighWing on 11/1/2010 5:42:58 PM , Rating: 3
If you want to compare OS's then you would need to add in the iPad, iPod Touches, and perhaps the iTV's.

Your reasoning is most likely why Apple does the same. However, those devices are not smartphones, and these reports are only interested in the sales of phone devices.

The other reason is because many hardware manufactures support different OS's. HTC sells win mobile devices, and so did Palm at one time. While Palm now has it's own OS, and HTC sells a large amount of Android phones. Given that it kind of makes a little more sense to compare the OS than the manufacture. But in Apple's case, they don't, and most likely never will, support another OS on the iPhone, nor will there ever be a different maker of the iPhone. So one can safely assume the iPhone IS the iOS. And again, we are only concerned with SmartPhones, so while the iPad, and iPod touch do run the iOS, they are NOT smartphones, and thus are not counted.

