Apple Thoughts: Android Gaining Ground on iPhone, or is it?

"New data shows Apple, RIM, and Microsoft continue to lose ground to Google in the U.S. smartphone market. Marketing intelligence company comScore published its quarterly Mobile Subscriber Market Share findings, which tracked total smartphone subscribers for the three months ending in July. According to the report, 53.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the quarter, up 11 percent from the previous quarter."

This of course, is the quarter leading up to the announcement of the iPhone 4 so it's no wonder that they status were down for the iPhone system. You could also make the argument that there are many versions of phones that use the Android or Google platform, versus just the iPhone 3GS and 3G for this quarter, so why shouldn't they gain ground? I'm really curious now how the next quarter stats are going to end up, how about you? What are your thoughts?