iPhone 4 outselling Verizon Droid by 2.5 to 1 ratio despite activation claims

Consumers who have wondered why Verizon and Apple are coming together to offer Verizon iPhone 4 need wonder no more: one of them is getting crushed by virtue of not having the other, and no, it’s not Apple. According to newly uncovered in-house evidence from Verizon, the AT&T iPhone is outselling the Verizon Droid by a stunning 2.5 to 1 ratio, meaning that five iPhones are going out the door in the U.S. for every two Droid phones, utters Fast Company. After a year in which the Android camp repetitively and hazily claimed it was outselling the iPhone by virtue of activation numbers, this original data casts those supposed activation numbers in a highly dubious light – and either way, it makes clear that it’s Verizon, not Apple, who dreadfully needs the Verizon iPhone to happen.

The Verizon Droid is simply one of the various Android phone lines accessible from various carriers, so the 2.5 to 1 ratio is not a measure of iPhone sales to total Android sales. Nonetheless, the Droid is generally renowned as the most prevalently triumphant member of the Android platform, ahead other carrier-specific Android devices for instance Sprint’s EVO or T-Mobile’s G2. With Google now claiming 300,000 daily activations of Android phones and Apple claiming less than that for all iOS devices combined (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), the diverse forecasters who’ve asked the noticeable question – where are all these supposed Android activations coming from with only a portion as many documented sales – now have even more shells to go on. For Verizon’s part, it’s still growing in terms of largely consumers, but that growth is only about half that of AT&T, although the general consensus that the iPhone 4 is the only handset that’s been moving the chains for the latter. As such, the 2.5 to 1 ratio of iPhone sales to Droid sales, and the 2 to 1 ratio of Verizon growth to AT&T growth, do not emerge to be coincidental to each other.