Jumping to Conclusions: Does the Droid Have Nearly 18% Android Market Share?

Android phones make up a tiny part of the smartphone market. But, Verizon’s aggressive (and expensive) Droid marketing campaign seems to have gotten it mindshare in the non-techie population. And, based on Google’s own data of devices using the Android Market over a 14-day period ending on December 14, the Droid accounted for 17.7% of accesses to the market. That number comes from combining the 2.9% running Android 2.0 and 14.8% running Android 2.0.1. This means that 1 out of every 5.5