Droid lacks Apple's secret weapon: iTunes

Apple outstripped Wall Street's expectations for the quarter ended September 30, and while the blowout quarter was mostly thanks to higher-than-expectedMac sales, the company also sold a record 7.4 million iPhones. But a lot of commentators think that theiPhone is finally going to meet its match with Droid.

Announced this weekend by Verizon in a cheeky TV commercial, the Droid is a Motorola phone running Google's Android 2.0 operating system. The advertisement notes that the Droid will do things that the iPhone won't.

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