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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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Who will rule the new internet?
June 9th, 2008 by Head RobotI was forwarded this article today from the San Francisco area newspaper, The San Francisco Sentinel. Many people believe that we are on the footsteps of an entirely new computer platform - the handheld mobile phone. Will the leader be Android devices with the Linux operating system or Apple’s iPhone? Are we forgetting Microsoft?
Yet again, Google, which is fighting the platform wars on multiple fronts, could be Apple’s stiffest competition. It is leading another coalition to build an open-operating system called Android that will work in the next generation of cell phones as well as other consumer devices. The Open Handset Alliance has 34 members — mobile-phone carriers as well as handset makers, including Motorola, LG Electronics, Samsung, China Mobile, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. Though Google ceo Eric Schmidt sits on Apple’s board of directors and Jobs saluted Google as a partner whose apps were on the iPhone, Apple is notably not in the alliance.
This appears to be a case of — in Valleyspeak — “frenemies,” companies that work together in some businesses while competing in others.
The first Android-powered phones will arrive, Google says, in the second half of the year, possibly around the same time as the new iPhone. At a recent Google developers’ conference, the company showed off, for the first time, a generic cell phone running the operating system. Touch sensitive, with an onboard, motion-sensing accelerometer that can also place a user precisely on a Google satellite map, the device resembles nothing so much as an iPhone. Android, explains Andy Rubin, Google’s director of mobile platforms, is an open platform for developers: Facebook; the code is theirs to modify. He says developers have so far written more than 1,800 applications, which could be distributed on a Google site arranged according to popularity, as YouTube is. “There’s some pretty innovative stuff there,” Rubin explains. “This is merging the handset and the Web and coming up with something completely new.”
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