Apple has never been a company that felt forced to offer responses to each and every press investigation about Apple-related news. So it’s interesting to watch that it offer the Loop’s Jim Dalrymple a statement about yesterday’s study that explained Android phones outselling iPhones in terms of units in the U.S.:

This is a very limited report on 150,000 US users responding to an online survey and does not account for the over 85 million iPhone and iPod touch users worldwide, Apple representative Natalie Harrison, told The Loop. IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1% of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android on a worldwide basis. We had a record quarter with iPhone sales growing by 131 % and with our new iPhone OS 4.0 software coming this summer; we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”