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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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Digg founder says: Mobile Web is Next
November 29th, 2007 by Head RobotDigg founder says: Mobile Web is Next
Still looking for reasons to port your mobile application to the Android platform? This was found at www.siliconrepublic.com.
“We are on the verge of mobile application explosion,” Kevin Rose, founder of social news site Digg.com, tells siliconrepublic.com, and he credits devices like the iPhone for bringing a “true, full-featured computing experience to a small handheld device”.
Rose’s site www.digg.com was one of the first to create an iPhone-friendly version but he says that though mobile devices are the next big trend it is the internet that is driving changes in how people are accessing information with innovations like search, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), blogs and social networking as major catalysts.
“The tollbooths of information are being torn down: the cost of creating and distributing content is now so low that anyone can produce content and blast it out to the world.
“And you can access just about any type of content anywhere, so content is abundant and accessible.”
He says that the challenge now is sifting through the overwhelming amount of content we come across on a daily basis to find what is most interesting and relevant.
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