Android is catching up to iPhone

Admob recently postest the latest Mobile operating share number latest numbers, and its not good for the iPhone.  The Android is rapidly catching up to the iPhone in terms of US market share, to the point where its looking like the Android will pass the iPhone in the use sometime within the next month or so.

Is this really a big surprise?  I've always thought this was inevitable.  The iPhone is only on a single carrier (currently), and only has a single vendor that makes and sells the hardware for it (Apple). 

Android on the other hand has multiple hardware manufacturers making phones for it (HTC, Motorola, Acer, Dell, amongst others), and is available on a number of different carriers.   Android is just setting themselves up to have a bigger market right out of the gate.  On top of that, if one phone maker screws up and makes a bad phone, no big deal, there is another phone maker making a great Android phone that will be a hit.  However if Apple screws up their phone, well they are kinda done.

The one thing that the iPhone still dominates in is the App store.  Its has much better global penetration than the Android, and does have a better selection of quality apps.  Will this change?  I personally think so, but not until the Android officially passes the iPhone.  Until then the iPhone remains the "sexy" platform.