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We’ve been away but we are back! Android vrs iPhone
June 11th, 2008 by Head Robot
Lot’s of stories this week with what is being dubbed, the iPhone 2.0 and how it compares to Android.
From Popular Mechanics:
Apple didn’t reinvent the phone. But it came close with the iPhone, creating an entirely new breed of mobile device–and promptly selling 6 million of them. In other words, the first iPhone wasn’t the Sputnik of cellphones, but it may have been the Apollo 11.
A year later, as Apple launches its second-generation iPhone, the competition must realize that time is running out. If someone doesn’t build a comparable touchscreen phone—right now—then the iPhone could become more than a historic success story. It will be unassailable, and the concept of an iPhone killer will become as mythical and useless as that other holy grail of consumer electronics: the iPod killer.
From Ostatic:
I think the key to the answer there lies in financing good applications. Google was smart to offer cash prizes to the best developers in the Android Developer Challenge, and should continue to fund open source efforts to make good applications for its mobile platform. Apple has more than $100 million dollars in its fund to seed iPhone applications, and RIM–which makes the Blackberry–has more than that in a similar fund. Check out some of the applications that won cash prizes in Google’s Android Developer Challenge:
From portfolio.com:
Blaise Zerega wants reliable mobile service: Yesterday, Steve Jobs’ announcement of a souped-up and priced-down iPhone says a lot about what keeps him up at night. In the year ahead, Android phones will come online, and LiMo phones may ultimately be the must-have devices. There’s a no-holds barred price war looming and Apple is especially vulnerable if the software used by its competitors is free. The $199 iPhone is a pre-emptive attack aimed at establishing a larger market share for the nasty times ahead.
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Apple’s open source sweet spot
June 10th, 2008 by Head RobotFrom ZDNet:
When Matt mentioned last week that Googlers are spending their extra time noodling around with their Macs, I ignored it.
Despite all the hype and the neat commercials, Macintosh market share remains anemic. The server market is virtually closed. It’s an elite machine.
But that’s not true throughout Apple. It’s not true with the iPhone.
When it comes to mobile Internet data, the iPhone is the 800-pound gorilla. People don’t browse the Web with their Blackberries, Samsungs or Razrs. They do with the iPhone.
This has caused a massive sea change in the mobile business. Carriers are boosting their digital capacity. Both the LiMo and Google Android are responses to the new reality.
Read the rest of the article, Apple’s open source sweet spot.
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