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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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Quest To Be ‘Next’ Platform: Idea One Player Will Win Is So ‘Old Status Quo’
June 6th, 2008 by Head RobotFrom the Washington Post,
Then there’s the mobile platform: the iPhone, expected June 9 (mocoNews’s Tricia Duryee will be covering it for us live), and Google’s Android. Evangelists like Kleiner Perkins’ Matt Murphy argue that Apple has already provided an open platform. Google says it’s a contender before Android even debuts.
Quittner suggests that everyone wins with this kind of competition. But these are far from the only contenders, just the best fits in a construct. Aggressive Nokia ( NYSE: NOK) controls far more handsets than Apple, for instance. Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT) may be the PC platform of the past but it’s very much part of the present and a future without it isn’t coming anytime soon. Yes, as he points out, IBM was superceded by Microsoft, which is “losing its power to the Web” but any “next great” will have to go a long way before it’s independent of Windows.
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