Market Researcher: Google Phones Will Overtake iPhone

A fascinating post from this past July, over at googleandblog.com:
“Bill Hughes, from the market research firm In-Stat, predicts in 2009 Google Android phones will have 17.1 million units sold which is almost twice the predicted amount of iPhones at 9.5 million - with the help of China.”
Frequent comparison of the iPhone and Android is a media favorite. Does the scale of Android’s impact make the iPhone a footnote?