And now for the obvious story of the day. A recent study shows that the iPhone OS has three times the market share of the Android OS.

Well no kidding.

Granted the iPhone has only been around for a three years vs Android (and the G1′s) two years, but let’s look at a few factors that may just slightly contribute to this:

1. Pre-existing loyal following – Apple already had a gigantic following of Apple fanboys, err, I mean fanatics that were lining up to purchase the iPhone when it was released. Android was Google’s first foray into the mobile market and people really had no idea what to expect.
2. Marketing – Before the Motorola Droid, and now the HTC EVO 4G, you rarely used to see commercials or ads in general for any Android product. Now compare this to the marketing behemoth that is Apple, and you could see how this might have a slight effect on consumers. Granted now you can’t watch TV for 30 minutes without seeing a droid or EVO 4G commercial, the previous years of iPhone marketing every and any where is hard to beat overnight.

So now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, on to the pie chart:

I’m going to trust in your ability to interpret data, so I won’t regurgitate the numbers above. I will remind everyone of this however, as anyone who’s ever taken a economics, marketing, or statistics class knows, it’s fairly easy to generate data in a controlled manner. For all we know this survey could’ve been conducted in Cupertino, California. Granted the Nielsen Company is pretty reputable, but stranger things have happened.

[via YottaFire]

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