尽管苹果iPhone 4上市后数小时内即在网上和实体店中脱销，但仍难挽苹果市场份额持续下跌的局面。市场调研公司ComScore数据显示，今年4月至7月间，苹果市场份额已下滑了1.4%，与此同时，谷歌Android的比重却增加了5%，因为越来越多手机和运营商开始选择Android，比如说HTC EVO 4G。

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更值一提的是，Android智能手机操作系统也一举成为市场冠军，这一点并不令人意外，因为在美国已有不少智能手机、主要运营商纷纷将目光转向这匹黑马。另外，因苹果应用壁而垒屡受挫折的开发商，发现Android的广泛兼容性后大受鼓舞，一时间Android的应用增长同样来势汹汹。

但是，Android平台的开放性，并非苹果被超越的主要诱因，据mocoNews网站所称，“……实际上，Android目前仅有59家合作运营商，而苹果却有154家运营商，问题的关键在于，苹果没有和世界上最大的无线运营商进行合作，比如说威瑞森（Verizon）、沃达丰德国（Vodafone Germany）、日本NTT DoCoMo和中国移动这些运营商巨头。”

尽管Android的运营商比苹果更少，但每家运营商都拥有多款Android手机，仅威瑞森一家就拥有Droid、Drod Eris、Droid Incredible、Droid X、Droid 2、Fascinate和Devour这七款手机。

mocoNews还指出，苹果居然没有和美国最大的运营商威瑞森合作，这一点实在是致命要害。如果二者真能联姻，Verizon iPhone的问世也未必是空想，如果这款手机还武装了EV-DO和LTE技术，那么苹果的市场战绩必定青宵直上。

iPhone 4 Didn’t Help Apple Market Share Versus Android

Although the Apple iPhone 4 sold out in just hours online and in stores, with long wait times afterward for those who wanted one, it didn’t really seem to help Apple’s decline in market share.

Between April and July of this year, Apple’s market share declined 1.3% according to ComScore. Unsurprisingly, Google took a 5% gain as Android hit more handsets and more carriers during that

time, like the HTC EVO 4G.

Much has been written about Android taking the number one spot in smartphone OS marketshare, and it should come to no surprise to anyone since the platform is available on a variety of smartphones

on every major carrier in the U.S. It also doesn’t show any signs of slowing as better apps are getting developed for the platform, and developers who are tiring of Apple’s walled garden are

being to flock to the more open OS.

However, mocoNews is reporting that it isn’t because of the wider available of Android:

Interestingly, it’s not because Android is more widely available. In fact, Android is only available on 59 carriers vs. 154 for iPhone, but the issue is that Apple lacks deals with some of the

world’s largest wireless carriers—Verizon Wireless (VZ, VOD), Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Germany, NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) and China Mobile.

While it may be true that Android is available on less carriers, each carrier tends to carry more than one Android device. Take Verizon, for example, who carries the Droid, Droid Eris, Droid

Incredible, Droid X, Droid 2, Fascinate and the Devour. That’s seven Android devices for just one carrier!

Still, mocoNews brings up another good point – Apple doesn’t have a deal with the largest carrier in the U.S. If a Verizon iPhone were to happen, especially one that is both EV-DO and LTE

capable (if those rumored Qualcomm deals are true). Having the iPhone on that enormous network could do wonders for Apple’s market share.（source：intomobile）

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