Data of another kind was released Saturday, when Internet metrics company Net Applications noted that online users of Apple's outnumber Android's by more than 2-to-1.

Net Applications, which measures online usage share, said that the iPhone was used by worldwide who surfed the Web last month. Android's global online usage share was 0.4% and BlackBerry's was only 0.13%.

No single Android-based smartphone maker has managed to sell as many handsets as Apple. Samsung, the largest seller of Android phones worldwide, sold an estimated in the third quarter of 2010. During the same period Apple sold .

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