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In particular they need to keep selling a big chunk of all tablets in order for people to see Flash as non-viable for tablet experiences. How low does their share have to get before people think "We'll do this tablet optimised site in Flash and work out a plan for iOS later"?
Android tablets were up to 22% of the market last quarter... on what? Galaxy Tab? That's an absolutely incredible number with really no great product on the market. Unless Apple has a trick up their sleeve for iPad2, Q2-Q4 of 2011 will likely split 75/25 for Android in the tablet space. For all the grief I give Google, their dev model around Chrome and Android have been lessons to the industry. Why is no one paying a…
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/01/31/samsung.admits...
Really. This article overlooks things.
Also.... and this is a big one...... owning a smart phone does not mean you use it as a smart phone...... it is meaningless to "win" this battle just by numbers...... some people own a washing machine just to store bottles in it.
Yes. Have fun playing with the open source code to the Google Maps app. Or the Mail app. Or the source code to the Market. Or removing all the vendor spamware. Really. This article overlooks things. Also.... and this is a big one...... owning a smart phone does not mean you use it as a smart phone...... it is meaningless to "win" this battle just by numbers...... some people own a washing machine just to store bottle…
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Emai...
Not a great article belabouring a pretty tired argument. > That's just in the US, of course, but it's likely that the rest of the world will f Except that the iPhone is on only one of four major US carriers (it hasn't shipped a single unit on Verizon yet). Also the economics are different elsewhere. In the US there isn't actually much handset subsidizatino. Most handsets, iPhone included, are $199. Some are $99. But…
WTF plan do you have? I have had an iphone since day one (gone through 9 handsets since they are such fragile POS) and I have paid $120/month the entire time I have had an iphone.