> The iPhone 4S was 6 months late. How do you figure? Apple announced it for October and released it in October. If you make the assumption that they wanted to

> The iPhone 4S was 6 months late. How do you figure? Apple announced it for October and released it in October. If you make the assumption that they wanted to release it in June or July, it's at most 3 or 4 months "late". > If you stretch this chart back another 6 months you'll see a considerable sag in iPhone sales as the 4S waiting game began. I'm pretty sure that iPhone 4 sales didn't slow down prior to the 4S's release. Not much anyway. Do you have anything to back up that claim? http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/09/iphone-4-tops-charts/ http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/09/iphone-4-tops-charts/ http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/09/09/iphone_4_sales_surprisingly_robust_ahead_of_apples_iphone_5_debut.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/09/09/iphone_4_sales... > Android, due to it's constant upgrade stream, doesn't suffer from this cycle. Let's take a look at some yearly charts before we call this race... I agree. Let's go further. Why does it always have to be a race? If you look at the big picture instead of the versus battle portrayed by the media then Android and iOS are together leading the industry. And next in line is Windows Phone which consistently gets great reviews. It's not all rainbows and unicorns. iOS suffers somewhat from being so locked down, but there are advantages to that as well. Android benefits from the immense range of devices that run it, but that also contributes to devices not getting upgrades. Windows Phone is not growing as quickly as many agree that it should based on its merit. But overall everyone is doing well and customers are happy. Nobody is losing except some of the old dogs like Blackberry.