I disagree. There is no deadline, especially not in a market where people purchase new phones every 18-24 months. I can see Android's sales continuing to trick

I disagree. There is no deadline, especially not in a market where people purchase new phones every 18-24 months. I can see Android's sales continuing to trickle upward as prices drop on phone hardware, as companies use their brand loyalty to push Android phones on those upgrading, as new manufacturers enter the fray, and as the public are clearer about what 'Android' is. I think people expected too much from Android on day one. Android's only been a multi-manufacturer platform for about 3 months and before then were only two rather clunky handsets which were both basically rush-released. It was never going to have the immediate impact that the iPhone had due to it being later to market, not having sales of the iPod to drive it forward, having less brand recongition and less marketing behind it. The nature of the beast is that it was always going to be a slow burner.