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Again?
It seems like we get this story every week.
The story was news at some point, at least. It's a major milestone in the mobile OS wars.
I hope this serves as a wakeup call to Apple, that their position is not so unassailable that they can continue looking for new ways to drive away partners and developers without consequences.
Why? Apple makes much of the profit. A report claims that Apple makes with 4% global market share 50% of the profits: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/31/apples_4_mobil... Google does not even really sell a phone. Google sells you, the user.
And god, if I never heard the "Google sells you" line again, it would be too soon. Apple has an ad platform too, you know.
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If they did, though, it would make sense. Apple's business model is to make money by selling hardware; Google's is to make money by selling advertising.
> Google's is to make money by selling advertising. They also collect licensing fees when phone makers use the Android name, Google trademarks and Google's software in the phones. I assume their foray into mobile phones is to fragment the market and prevent any other player from gaining a dominant market share.
Is that accurate? Everything I've seen has indicated that if anything money moves the other way - Google sharing revenue on platform ads (and possibly other services) with oems and carriers. I haven't seen anyone claim that oems pay licensing fees to google for google apps and trademarks - I believe they are use granted based on platform spec compliance.
I assume their foray into mobile phones is to fragment the market and prevent any other player from gaining a dominant market share.
While undoubtedly google doesn't want another player to dominate the market, I believe the primary goals for android were to increase global pageviews, drive mobile adoption, and to avoid large upfront costs of paying for placement as the default search engine.
Would be cool to see this data over a longer window.
Used browser; 36.2%; 37.0%; 0.8 Used downloaded apps; 33.7%; 35.3%; 1.6
I hope this serves as a wakeup call to Apple, that their position is not so unassailable that they can continue looking for new ways to drive away partners and developers without consequences.
Why? Apple makes much of the profit. A report claims that Apple makes with 4% global market share 50% of the profits: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/31/apples_4_mobil... Google does not even really sell a phone. Google sells you, the user.
>that their position is not so unassailable that they can continue looking for new ways to drive away partners and developers without consequences
I think most everyone wants more competition to keep any single company from being abusive, but your response to this is essentially "Apple is still #1!" I don't understand what you are saying here. Is it that you think Apple isn't really under any pressure? That you don't want them to make their developer/partner deals more generous?
Somewhat off-topic: is there any reason not to get Virgin Mobile's $150 LG Optimus V for the purpose of exploring Android development? Aside from smaller memory and lower-res camera, it looks like I don't miss out on anything from top of the line models.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? Apple makes much of the profit. A report claims that Apple makes with 4% global market share 50% of the profits: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/31/apples_4_mobil... Google does not even really sell a phone. Google sells you, the user.
They currently make most of the profit. But with declining market share puts those profits in severe danger in the future. And god, if I never heard the "Google sells you" line again, it would be too soon. Apple has an ad platform too, you know.
What declining market share?
Somewhat off-topic: is there any reason not to get Virgin Mobile's $150 LG Optimus V for the purpose of exploring Android development? Aside from smaller memory and lower-res camera, it looks like I don't miss out on anything from top of the line models.
This is so funny. Android is gaining it's share and everyone is trying to create iPhone killer. Noone is doing an Android killer:)
ex.: http://macdailynews.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/110303_andro...
