If you count the iPad and iPod touch, it looks like iOS by about 1.6 million units
Estimates based on Flurry Analytics and Google tweets
Without a press release from Apple (AAPL) crowing about their Christmas sales, we're forced to rely on data from a mobile analytics firm and tweets from a Google (GOOG) senior vice president to make some rough guesses.
Here's what we know:
But this is just guesswork, and it doesn't take into account sales of Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle Fire, which wouldn't show up in Google's accounting of Android activations. We'll get hard numbers in January when Apple reports its earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2012, which ends Saturday.
An analytical gap big enough to drive a sleigh through
Image: Business Insider
Here are a pair of headline shockers:
AppleInsider: iOS dominates mobile shopping with 92% of market
Forbes: iOS Took 13.4% of Online Sales on Christmas Day
Both stories got pretty big play over the Christmas break. But they can't both be right, can they? Let's look at the facts.
The 92% figure comes from a Dec. 21 report by a San Francisco-base MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 27, 2011 6:41 AM ET
Would that Apple's intelligent assistant were as reliable as its Christmas TV ad suggests
Apple (AAPL) has been pushing Siri hard as the key selling point for the iPhone 4S, especially on TV with ads like the Santa spot it began airing this week. (It's also available on YouTube.)
But our experience is that between system outages, misunderstandings and the basic limitations of its knowledge base, Siri is considerably less reliable than MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 20, 2011 7:21 AM ET
A spot check of retail sales a week before Christmas raises an interesting question
Kindle Fire
In a note to clients issued Monday, Hudson Square Research's Daniel Ernst reported on the results of a pre-holiday scouting trip he took to retail stores in New York and Connecticut over the weekend -- only a handful of shopping days before Christmas -- where he found "floor traffic up materially, but lines at checkout MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 19, 2011 10:25 AM ET
Some of them are painfully out of tune, but it's for a good cause
Ignited, a high-tech advertising agency with offices in Los Angeles and New York, has come up with a clever holiday promotion. It will donate 5 cents (up to $2,500) to the Los Angeles Mission every time this YouTube video is viewed.
As of Friday morning, it had raised $1,282.55.
Ignited's clients include NBC, Sony and the NFL, but not MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 16, 2011 7:10 AM ET
The carrier will add an estimated 1.2 million new accounts, more than double AT&T's
Data: J.P. Morgan. Chart: PED
"Santa's Sleigh Needs More Room for iPhones." That was the headline on a note to clients Thursday by Mark Moskowitz, who follows Apple (AAPL) for J.P. Morgan. Moskowitz was upping his iPhone sales estimate for the current quarter from 25.3 million to (a still relatively conservative) 28 million.
"Christmas Is Coming Early for MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 4, 2011 6:45 AM ET
Only "money" and "clothes" scored higher in an annual pre-holiday survey
Click to enlarge.
For 22 years, Piper Jaffray researchers have been asking American teenagers what they want for Christmas, and for the past four years Apple (AAPL) products have been moving steadily up the wish lists.
All told, according to a note to clients issued Monday by senior research analyst Gene Munster, 11.2% of the 5,700 teenagers surveyed this fall named MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 28, 2011 6:29 AM ET
The iPod touch (30%) and iPhone (27%) came in second and third in the 2011 wish list
Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen
Apple's (AAPL) iPad topped a new Nielsen survey of the most desired electronics products among young Americans this holiday season.
Among kids 6-12, Apple scored a hat trick, with the iPad (44%) first, the iPod touch (30%) second and the iPhone (27%) third.
In a similar survey last year, the iPad came MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 17, 2011 1:12 PM ET
The tablet most likely to succeed against the iPad gets its first hands-on tests this week
Source: Retrevo
Toward the end of a report entitled "Why the Amazon Kindle Fire could be hot this holiday season," which generated the widely-reproduced charts at right, Retrevo's Andrew Eisner adds this caveat:
"As popular as the Kindle Fire appears in this study, whether it lives up to expectations on things like battery life, performance, image MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 13, 2011 8:20 AM ET
Google is launching a site that will help people whose family members are in need of tech help.
We've all been there. We're either the beneficiary of the family tech guru or we're the ones who head home on the Holiday vacation to a year's worth of tech support issues to address.
Google (GOOG) hopes to help with a site called TeachParentsTech:
TeachParentsTech.org lets you select from more than 50 basic how-to videos to send MORE
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