"A lot of the people who are buying an iPhone ... they wanted the iPhone but they weren't willing to give up the Verizon network so they're just going to say, 'Now I can get what I really wanted," .

If a single Android phone can keep the pace with and in some cases outsell the iPhone, it's safe to say these prognostications aren't panning out. Android's going to be just fine.

And as my colleague JR Raphael pointed out, . Smartphones are not a winner-take-all market, and the competition will keep Apple, Google and Android smartphone makers on their toes.

HTC's Thunderbolt has an 8-megapixel camera, 40 GB of storage (8 GB on board, 32 GB in a pre-installed microSD card) and, most importantly, 4G speeds. Those are some strong lures that Apple will have to match with the next iPhone--.