Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010
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Re: Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010
#2No news here.
1. More networks, more devices. It's like saying that Windows sells more than Macbook Pros. 2. Everyone and their mothers knows that in a month Apple will introduce a new one 3. Soon the big majority of cell phones will be what we usually call smartphones. It would be fool to think that one single device will maintain dominate the marketshare. The point is that if you look at the single device, no-one is even closed to Apple's number.
Re: Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010
#3There were a lot of iPod Touch devices (and now iPads) sold too though, so the mobile application market is still heavily dominated by Apple devices. Good to see competition in the smartphone space though.
Re: Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010
#4Android is definitely picking up pace. I just hope Apple releases an iPhone for Verizon. I think that will give the iPhone a boost. Apple should also release an iPhone Nano, a smaller version of the iPhone. Maybe also have colors.
Re: Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010
#5I think Android outselling the iPhone (and eventually overtaking it in raw numbers) will soon become pretty obvious. Android is a pretty mass-market product - its flexibility means that manufacturers can put a wide array of products and users can make those products their own.
I really don't think a single product (especially a tightly-defined one like the iPhone) can meet even a majority of people's needs.
Re: Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010
#6No news here. 1. More networks, more devices. It's like saying that Windows sells more than Macbook Pros. 2. Everyone and their mothers knows that in a month Apple will introduce a new one 3. Soon the big majority of cell phones will be what we usually call smartphones. It would be fool to think that one single device will maintain dominate the marketshare. The point is that if you look at the single device, no-one i…
> The point is that if you look at the single device, no-one is even closed to Apple's number.
Really? Is that what matters? It seems to me the more significant thing would be the OS and not any one device, especially for HN-types that write apps and build sites for OSes/browsers and not a piece of hardware.
Re: Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010
#7No news here. 1. More networks, more devices. It's like saying that Windows sells more than Macbook Pros. 2. Everyone and their mothers knows that in a month Apple will introduce a new one 3. Soon the big majority of cell phones will be what we usually call smartphones. It would be fool to think that one single device will maintain dominate the marketshare. The point is that if you look at the single device, no-one i…
Does that matter to us? When I'm deciding what to support as a developer I care only about the size of the platform.
Re: Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010
#8No news here. 1. More networks, more devices. It's like saying that Windows sells more than Macbook Pros. 2. Everyone and their mothers knows that in a month Apple will introduce a new one 3. Soon the big majority of cell phones will be what we usually call smartphones. It would be fool to think that one single device will maintain dominate the marketshare. The point is that if you look at the single device, no-one i…
"Soon the big majority of cell phones will be what we usually call smartphones."
My guess here is, that this will be a major winning point for Android, as i think that the next-gen low cost smartphones (presumably the ones that will most likely be bought by current featurephone owners) will be Android ones. Vodafone in germany will sell an Android phone for 130€ (prepaid, 1€ with contract) soon, for example.
Even more so, this may be a huge advantage in the emerging markets like china and india.
Re: Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010
#9I think Android outselling the iPhone (and eventually overtaking it in raw numbers) will soon become pretty obvious. Android is a pretty mass-market product - its flexibility means that manufacturers can put a wide array of products and users can make those products their own. I really don't think a single product (especially a tightly-defined one like the iPhone) can meet even a majority of people's needs.
I agree.
And I think this is why Adobe's anti-trust activity against Apple won't go very far.
Apple is very comfortable taking part of the market, owning it, doing things their way, and making boatloads of money. They are not trying to be everything to everyone.
Disclosure: I just switched from iPhone to a Google N1 because I was tired of the box Apple put me in.
Re: Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010
#10No news here. 1. More networks, more devices. It's like saying that Windows sells more than Macbook Pros. 2. Everyone and their mothers knows that in a month Apple will introduce a new one 3. Soon the big majority of cell phones will be what we usually call smartphones. It would be fool to think that one single device will maintain dominate the marketshare. The point is that if you look at the single device, no-one i…
> The point is that if you look at the single device, no-one is even closed to Apple's number. Really? Is that what matters? It seems to me the more significant thing would be the OS and not any one device, especially for HN-types that write apps and build sites for OSes/browsers and not a piece of hardware.
The most significant thing is actually what kind of market there is for the apps/sites we are building. Market is not just about the number of users, it's about how much those users are buying. It's the reason that Mac developers can make more than their PC counterparts on many types of applications, because the Mac users buy more software. (at least I know I have since I switched).