It is not new that Android beats Apple iPhone operating system many ways in U.S. market. Apple has fired back with comments to an Apple-centric blog denouncing the NPD numbers.

Apple may not control PR damage, but the rep stated that the NPD numbers are based on filled-outline surveys. While this second-place hurdle is a big victory for our operating system, we have to keep in mind that this data has the potential to be wrong, or fluctuate come next survey time.

It was vague to me that the media frenzy over Apple’s supposed failings because in the long run, it doesn’t necessarily mean that much. Sure, it means that people are buying phones, but raw numbers alone aren’t going to bring in more customers (or developers, for that matter) unless it has the product has quality behind it to back it up.

Anyway, this announcement might be the momentum that gets the snowball rolling when it comes to Android. With Google I/O coming just around the corner, there might be some big announcements on the horizon that will silence (at least some) of the critics.

Around 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide. IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1 percent of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android on a worldwide basis.

The record quarter with iPhone sales growing by 131 percent and with our iPhone OS 4.0 software coming this summer, we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”Natalie HarrisonApple spokesperson

Source: The Loop