It's almost always a mistake to hang "winning" purely on sales numbers. (Apple fans, of all people, should know this.)
It's silly to watch people (on any side) solely say that "more sales = better". That is, until their favorite side sells less. Then suddenly they flip-flip and "more sales = must not be as valuable"
Heck, often the lowest sales in the world are for the most valuable things. People often would rather have a rare thing than what every other person has!
In this thread, sales counts are an especially poor debate position to use, because total Android OS share will be moving past total iOS share within a year, if not within a few months.
There's also the problem of how useful old counts are. iOS devices have been on sale for years longer than Android devices. And what about ten or twenty years from now? Will people still be trying to quote "total sales" since day one? Not very meaningful by then.
A more important marketshare number is how many are in
current usage.
