As the iPhone 4 is due to be put into mothballs, many smartphone users see it as nothing more than a rusting legacy device compared to the throngs of newer, bolder Android gadgets. And yet, AT&T’s earnings show that the iPhone 4 has catapulted Apple into near smartphone dominance.
The iPhone 4 is well over a year old. In smartphone years, that’s like being a senior citizen, thanks to the break-neck speed that mobile technology advances. Since the release of the iPhone 4 in the summer of 2010, Android has released a horde of new smartphones that, when combined into one fighting force against the iPhone, wields many more newfangled features for the avid smartphone users. From 4G capabilities and 3D screens and cameras, to 8-megapixel cameras and dual touch screens, the Android-based smartphone designs that have followed the iPhone 4 would seem to have sucked up the imagination of mobile technology — so much so that it has led to a feeling that the iPhone 5 can not and will not offer users anything new that Android hasn’t already tried.
And yet, in spite of this perceived Android dominance, the old iPhone 4 has managed to singlehandedly outsell Android, according to a new earnings report from AT&T.
Like Uma Thurman in the Kill Bill series or Stallone in Rambo, one improbable iPhone has managed t0 mow down a multiplicity of competitors, almost in absurd fashion. According to The Street, for AT&T’s second quarter, “In wireless, where the iPhone represented nearly two-thirds of all smartphones sold in the quarter, AT&T added 331,000 postpaid subscribers. Analysts had been looking for about 200,000 new phone subscribers.” In that time, Android has thrown an array of impressive adversaries at Apple, including the Samsung Galaxy S II, which is touted as the natural rival to the iPhone 5.
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