Those numbers are skewed somehow.
Lets look at Gartner's numbers rather than some off media skewed numbers to make you see what they want you to see. (link is a direct link to Gartner's numbers)
Numbers are in thousands.
Code:
OS 2012 (% of market) 1211 (% of market)
Android 81,067.4 56.1 36,350.1 36.4
iOS 33,120.5 22.9 16,883.2 16.9
So, iOS sold about 16.883M phones in 1211 and 33.120M phones in 2012. Lets do 16.883 x 2 and you get 33.67M. That is right at doubling the numbers of 2011 in 2012.
Now lets double Android's 2011 numbers. 36.350M x 2 is 72.7M, yet Android actually sold 81.067M phones in 2012 over doubling how many phones Android sold from 2011. Not only that, Android sold more phones in 2011 than Apple did in 2012 after which Apple had doubled it's output.
Android increased its smartphone sales by 44.717M phones from 2011 to 2012. Androids increase alone was larger than Apple's total output for 2012. Android's increase in volume alone between 2011 and 2012 (the 44.717M phones) was 89.5% of Apple's total sales for both 2011 and 2012 combined!
I find it mind boggling that someone could say Apple was gaining ground on Android when Android's increased ALONE in sales over the previous year is almost 90% of Apple's TOTAL sales over *both* years!
Let me be clear about this. Apple didn't do **** to Android in the market. Android CRUSHED Apple's iPhone sales. Dude, don't get your facts from mediots, get the real numbers. The media always tries to warp facts. I work in the financial industry. They sing doom and gloom even in bear markets.
btw, about a single iPhone vs all Android comment. You know what the problem with that is right? There *IS* only one iPhone and you have many many many choices of Android phones. Galaxy S3, Galaxy Nexus, DesireHD, Inspire, etc, etc, and more, etc. If there was only one Android phone and say it was the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus would CRUSH the iPhone in sales.