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Want to put $100 on that?
What exactly would we be betting and how are we going to judge the outcome? new phones in the preceding month? estimates of phones in use at time t[0] and t[1]? iPhones are in the minority of total phones in use right now. What geographic area do you want to restrict it to? Remember that most of the world cannot buy and operate a 2nd gen iPhone without voiding the warranty, and if you think that iPhones are going to…
Android was also a bid from Google to have the newly opened bit of spectrum be a "utility" band, where any device that gets FCC certified can plug into that network -- regardless of carrier or manufacturer. That didn't fly.
I would wager that's a more telling indication of who's going to come out on top of the scrap heap. The wireless handheld market is not beholden to perfect competition. Especially not within the US of A.