Google Says Android is Winning War Against Apple's iOS
Android accounts for more than 70 percent of worldwide smartphone shipments.
Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt believes Android's war with Apple's iOS has seen the former come out on top.
Speaking to Bloomberg in an interview, Schmidt said Android's battle with iOS "is of the scale of 20 years ago -- Microsoft versus Apple." In his opinion, Google is "winning that war pretty clearly now."
Statistically, Android has outpaced iOS for several consecutive quarters. With the emergence of several budget-priced smartphones that boast a variety of screen sizes, Q3 shipments saw Android accounting for 72.4 percent of the worldwide market, while iOS settled for a distant second place with a 14.9 percent share. It's also a similar outline for the former's tablets lineup.
Commenting briefly about Facebook, the Google chairman stressed that he believes Google+ is a "viable competitor to Facebook." That statement was echoed by the latter's VP of product, albeit through a more direct approach, who stated that the former is a "social network of the past".
Current Google CEO, Larry Page, lately discussed the search engine giant's relationship with its rival, with the two companies discussing regularly due to their search ties. As for Apple, meanwhile, the firm recently suffered its largest share price drop in four years due to Android's continued dominance.

I have used both and find that ios is simple and lacking features. Android is much cooler, no matter what any judge says.
On another note: Facebook should close
I have used both and find that ios is simple and lacking features. Android is much cooler, no matter what any judge says.
On another note: Facebook should close
The only thing BMW cares about is how many Lexus cars Toyota sells, since Lexus has several models to compete directly against BMW. Apple doesn't care about the gazillion 320x240 2.8" phones running Android 2.2 or 2.3 or the countless Coby tablets selling in grocery stores.
Terrible analogy. You are saying that BMW doesn't care how many Toyotas are sold because BMW is a premium product and Toyota is a mainstream product. But what makes BMW premium? More features and a higher price - two things the iPhone does not have in comparison to Android phones. You can get an Android phone for $1 and you can get an iPhone for $1. You can also pay up to $399 for an iPhone or $429 for an Android phone. Apple most certainly DOES care how many Android phones are sold because any one of those purchases could have been an iPhone, whether it would have been the iPhone 4 for $1, or the iPhone 5 64GB for $399. Both are sales, and both add a digit to the "MILLIONS OF IPHONES SOLD" announcements that give day-traders boners.
Apple's only advantages were:
-plethora of apps , now irrelevant because devs have caught up pretty fast
-hardware - they used to hold the crown of luxury handsets, now left behind not only by top tier Android phones and tablets, but also by the new generation WinPhone 8 handsets.
Of course, nobody can sink Apple better than Apple themselves, with the latest blunders in terms of both hardware and software they did put up lately. To be honest, every manufacturers has problems/bugs, but only the ones that claim to be perfect are the ones that get the scrutiny of the masses.
Last but not least, people enjoy diversity and enjoy having choices to make on their own, not choices to be made for them by someone else, be it a person or a company. Especially when that person/company behaves like the schoolyard bully.
Comparing Apple to BMW - that only stands when you look at the option to dump the BMW and buy a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or an Aston Martin. Those guys sell even fewer cars than BMW, but I would pick one of them every day over a BMW. For instance, why settle with an iPad Mini when you can get better specs on a Nexus 7? Same question for iPad vs Nexus 10.
It's all about choices, that's all. For me Android is way more functional/logical/easier to use than iOS, which I find clunky and old, backwards and uninspired. Others might just be too heavily invested in iOS to look back and change ways. If/when WinPhone gets close to the amount and variety of apps that the other 2 OSs are enjoying, I might even consider Windows phone instead; who knows? I keep my options. Too bad that many iOS customers are too brainwashed to realize they even have these options.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/apples-latest-ios-6-maps-system-is-luring-motorists-into-danger-police-warn/story-e6frfro0-1226533592620