This post was inspired by a commenting debate on a Mashable article.

There is a huge problem that people, especially Android fans, almost always overlook when comparing the Android mobile OS to the iPhone. Lately, the buzz has been that Android now has more market share than iPhone and is therefore the better and more popular phone. The problem with that statement is that Android is not a phone. It is an operating system. People always compare Android to iPhone, when in reality the comparison should be between Android and iOS.

There's an even bigger issue with that statement that throws the statistics off entirely. The Android OS is installed on hundreds of smartphones. iOS is only on one phone and that's the iPhone. This is because Apple makes both the hardware and software for their phones. Android gets market share because it's the next best OS to iOS, plus it's free for manufacturers to load up on their phones. So the fact is, Android is not winning. In market share, yes, but if you compare the iPhone to a singular Android phone, iPhone is the clear winner. There is not a single Android phone, including the Droid line, that sells even remotely as well as the iPhone does. That is how the comparison should be. It should either be Android vs. iOS or a single Android device vs. iPhone.