Visualized: the state of the smartphone wars

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As AT&T's iPhone exclusivity reluctantly teeters on the brink of
oblivion, it seems a good time to take one last look at the smartphone
playground, the way it is before V-Day. The New York Times has handily
done that job for us with the above chart, which simultaneously gives
us a sense of scale when comparing US carriers and lays out the
concentration of Android devices across those networks. It also shows
a big fat bump of iOS on AT&T, making it the biggest carrier in
terms of combined iPhone and Android users -- nothing shocking there,
but the real fun will be in taking a look at this same data a few
months from now. Will the iPhone fragment itself all over the four
major networks? Will AT&T's Android stable ever be respectable?
Tune in to your next installment of "fun, but mostly irrelevant
statistics" to find out.