Android to beat iPhone by 2012, Gartner analysts claim

He took his seat off to another room far away from the meeting, and acted like a hermit? ;)

Perhaps Android phone OS will eclipse iphone Mac OSX OS.... but I don't think thats the whole story. Analysts repeatedly get Apple wrong WRT sales and profit motives. I believe Apple wants to hold true to its design ideals in offering products and expects a "reasonable" return on providing such solutions to customers. Sure, Android may ultimately have higher market presence, but it will likely be on an array of low cost handset hardware of varying quality etc,etc: some good, some bad. Apple will, like in its Mac sales, maintain its quality standing to protect profit margins and provide both returns to shareholders as well as ongoing product/service innovation that leads the market where others routinely fail to live up to customer expectations.

So dos Apple want World Domination - No - it just wants to be the leading company it its product/service segments in design, innovation, customer satisfaction and thus profitability.

...will bring the end of the world, hey, the Mayans* had it right!

*Mayans never said the world will end in 2012, that is just when their calendar ends, much like the Julian Calendar ends on December 31st each year.

Why is it that these analysts (and I use that term loosly) keep making these wild predictions with blatantly misleading numbers?

It seems like someone has got stocks or shares in HTC or another Android company.

Also note that he predicts Apple to be stagnant pretty much market share wise. But windows mobile to still be a big player.
Obviously he wrote this before they released win mob 6.5.

Then there is the other prediction that Android will be on more than 20 handsets. What he fails to mention is the issues of app comparability once people start to stray from a basic platform design. Like they have atm.

But only time will tell, not some analyst.

A huge game changer would be the iPhone ditching the carrier, I'd like to see analysts predict results to that

iPhone has ditched "the carrier". In many countries there are multi to choose from.

US is a special case, because only ATT has a good GSM network.

These predictions get a lot of attention, and the get people stirred up, but they're meaningless. Gartner has NO idea what either of those platforms will look like in 2012. Consider that, before the first android phone came out, you'd have predicted a lot more market penetration than the thing has actually enjoyed. Why didn't it do better? Because people looked at the actual implementation and said ”Meh.“

I guess we can all become millionaires with this Gartner prediction....just invest $25,000 now and you've got it made for the rest of your life....

This is so silly that I can't believe they would make such a long shot prediction. I wonder if they could predict interest rates in 2012 or who will be elected President that year?

Take it with a grain of salt, thats all that its worth.

how many andriod phones have sold so far? I think this guy is talking out his....

If Apple Cannot get its Ties to ATT severed and offer iPhones on other networks and do it soon it will fall quickly into 3rd-4th place in the next few years.