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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.

Google Now Leads Apple in Smartphone Market

By Derek Thompson
Aug 3 2010, 12:30 PM ET Comment

It's official: Google's 20 Droid smart phones on four carriers have surpassed Apple's iPhone (that's one phone, on AT&T) in the U.S. market. Wired magazine thinks the raw numbers miss the real story:

Here's the math: I think we can all agree that Apple is selling iPhones at a rate of 4 million a month. Add the 1 million iPads/month Apple is selling and another 1.85 million/month as a guestimate for iPod Touch sales and you get ... wait for it ... 6.85 million iOS devices a month, or 42 percent more than Android. Apple doesn't consistently provide iPod Touch numbers, but over the years it has provided enough data to make an educated guess.

Read the full story at Wired.



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