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It's Admob ad traffic, not "web traffic". Very important distinction. Still, hooray for Android! This is just the first of many passes Android will do in the future.
It's Admob ad traffic, not "web traffic". Very important distinction. Still, hooray for Android! This is just the first of many passes Android will do in the future.
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Allowing only signed apps has one huge advantage: no malware. I do feel that Apple should weaken its requirements and only disallow bad apps.
I understand what you're saying, but what the iPhone really excludes is unapproved malware.
Which has always seemed like an elephant in the room for Apple, legally speaking. By aggressively vetting applications, aren't they warranting to their end users that the applications are free from harmful or illegal side effects? What stops me from writing an app that only turns into malware after a certain date, for instance?
My prediction is that we will be in the same situation with iPhone vs Andriod that we are now with Mac vs Windows in 5-7 years. Andriod will be the cheaper but less polished product sold to the masses, while the iPhone will be a more upscale, more expensive product for the people with discriminating taste. Right now there is a lot of innovation going on in the mobile market, but the reality is that soon some features…
> Andriod will be the cheaper but less polished product sold to the masses, while the iPhone will be a more upscale, more expensive product for the people with discriminating taste Okay a lot of people have given you a pass for this (as Hacker's News, almost entirely as a reflection PG's spoken beliefs, is very Apple-fawning), but this is silly. You aren't special for buying a Mac, nor are your tastes better. Everyon…
It's Admob ad traffic, not "web traffic". Very important distinction. Still, hooray for Android! This is just the first of many passes Android will do in the future.
Our analytics data has US iPhone visits at 5x Android, so there is quite a way to go. I think as long as iPhone remains exclusively at AT&T it will happen eventually.
Please forgive the metacomment, but god TechCrunch is terrible, I've never been so frustrated reading a blog 1) What's with the unreadable, unlinked graphs? I can barely make them out 2) I tried to go to the source by clicking the "released" link, which took me to... another TechCrunch article! 3) All the other links in the article are to other TechCrunch articles too! How's that for sourcing... 4) I looked all over…
5) When I copy and paste a line from their article, they add "Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/admob-android-passes-iphone... . IMHO That's just lame.
The only number I want to see from Android is app sales. Until then, it will always be second banana because nobody develops for a platform just because its users see a lot of AdMob ads.
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I agree, but only if Apple allows unsigned apps on the iPhone. Then its a matter of taste & money. Money that I would be willing to spend if I owned the phone after purchasing it, like I own my MacBook Pro. My hope is that Android is so successful that Apple has to allow unsigned App. Until then I am happy developing apps for Android.
Allowing only signed apps has one huge advantage: no malware. I do feel that Apple should weaken its requirements and only disallow bad apps.
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The biggest flaw with the numbers is that it doesn't include iPod Touch or iPad traffic, as they are not smartphones. A second issue is that, because it is US numbers, there is only one carrier with iPhones, which will limit their numbers (presumably in exchange for a big bag of cash).
The biggest flaw with the numbers is that it doesn't include iPod Touch or iPad traffic, as they are not smartphones. Why is that a flaw? Why should the numbers include those devices?
Ignoring it would be the equivalent of comparing iPhone sales against a single Android phone (which I've also seen done repeatedly) which ignores the Android advantage of being available on multiple phones from multiple manufacturers.
Almost any actual decision you'd want to make about iPhone or Android as competing platforms will need to take into account the existance of iPod Touches or Android phones by a variety of manufacturers.
The numbers in each case may be correct for the limited arena they cover, but they're still misleading for any realistic purpose.