I’ve been touting in pretty much this past month’s blog posts that we need not pit Android phones against iPhones. Why can’t we do both? Why do we always  need to choose teams? Why does  it always have to be a battle?

Today’s Android Twitter stream was inundated with links to an article on eMarketer, “How Alike Are Android and iPhone Users?”

Awareness of the Android mobile operating system is rising, and users have a lot in common with iPhone fans, according to research from comScore and Compete.

Bingo! It’s happening and we’re slowly seeing signs of the parallel rise of both mobile operating systems.

I for one, know quite a few Mac users that  have jumped on the Android Band Wagon and have NOT deserted their Apple products at all. They live, guilt free and have the best of both worlds. The rules are changing people and one rule is —> we don’t have to follow any rules!

Whether or not comScore’s and Compete’s research are accurate, the fact remains that the numbers are changing and we’ll definitely be seeing more and more research firms grinding out more data that will give us a better picture of where the two celebrity mobile operating systems fare.

The cartoon above, was originally created for an upcoming article on Mashable and was entitled “iCompromise”.

I’ve created two more updated cartoons to compliment eMarketer’s article.