@Paper-Cut: "However, with any uninstaller app from the market, you can remove [bloatware]"

@gebinsk: Manufacturers are going to insist on differentiating their Android phones.

@gebinsk: @Canon7D-Fanboy: This is a bizzare argument. Is your point that other tech companies can't hire ad agencies? HP and Dell can't get a bunch of Ivy League art majors to talk about "industrial design?"

@Secant: This precisely is the problem. Manufacturers have no incentive to keep their phones up to date. Not when there's a new "flagship" Android phone released every week. Even if the phone was released in the last few months, what incentive does a manufacturer have to keep it updated? How much money is HTC…

@Ditchdigger: The iPhone 3G was released 2 years ago. The EVO 4G was released 3 months ago and still doesn't have Froyo.

@Standish:

@britishcoder: The numbers in the infographic represent global sales. Otherwise, Symbian would be nowhere near 44% market share.

@Matt da brat on da wheels of steel:

@Matt da brat on da wheels of steel:

@Odin: People who don't want to leave Verizon?

@twlreal: Actually, Google doesn't claim 160,000 "sales" per day. They claim 160,000 "activatioins" per day. Precisely what counts as an activation is unknown.

According to this infographic, there were 5,214,000 Android phones sold in the first quarter of 2010. This comes out to an average of 57,140 phones per day.