So, Verizon, if you didn’t know, has the iPhone 4 on their network, and they have for a few weeks. They have also had the Thunderbolt for the past few weeks as well, and if you ask any lipschitdz teenager they will say, “duur, the iPhone 4 is the best, of course it is going to sell more!”
Wrong!
New reports are saying that the Thunderbolt is being sold more than the iPhone 4, proving that if the iPhone is put onto a network with a much better Android device, the people will actually get a functioning brain and buy the better option. This is great, as it points out how the future of iPhone sales will be from this date forward: good, but not the highest. A research firm is reporting that about 61% of Verizon stores are selling both phones at the same rate, whereas 28% of their stores are selling more Thunderbolts than iPhones. That means that consumers are FINALLY getting smarter, and are choosing on a ‘which is better’ basis, not a ‘oh damn Apple logo gotta jump on that!’ basis.
iPhone 5, if it dares peak its head out of hiding, will be shot down by Android this year, both specs wise AND sales wise. We already have phones in production, running Android, that have dual core processors that are faster than those in the iPad 2, and we have phones with 8mp cameras, so if the most talked about rumors about the iPhone 5 specs are true, then we have already seen better devices. ATT and Verizon seem to be getting some nice phones recently, and if that little hunk of aluminum is on the shelves next to these Android beasts, it will cry in embarrassment.
Nicolas Wiggins
Android Correspondent
Source: Droid-Life
