a main reason for the rise of the android is that Google didn't restrict its OS to itself, instead spread it everywhere. Now just to be clear i am an android fan but comparison to iOS is a bit unfair because apple is just one company with only one phone "iPhone" while every 2nd company is making android. So if you are going to say that 20+ android making phone companies have over taken APPLE...it would be a bit unfair ...would it not?

however...kudos for Google for nearly ending the monoply of Apple. Future of android is quite bright and secured and i see no reason that the graphs and figures mentioned in the original thread will only continue to grow...GO ANDROID!