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Actually, the real battle will be between Apple and Microsoft for spots #3 and #4 in the mobile market, as explained here: http://beust.com/weblog/2010/05/22/m
by billmcneale 16y ago
Actually, the real battle will be between Apple and Microsoft for spots #3 and #4 in the mobile market, as explained here:
http://beust.com/weblog/2010/05/22/more-on-android-and-the-iphone-2/ http://beust.com/weblog/2010/05/22/more-on-android-and-the-i...
Android is already #2 and poised to become #1 in the next three years. Apple and Microsoft will soon not even be in the same league.
- evgen 16y agoThey will definitely lag in number of handsets, but will also completely destroy the Android players in terms of profit. If you consider the ecosystem as a whole, I am betting that Microsoft will also knock Android down into third-place in terms of third-party developer profit as well.
- billmcneale 16y agoThe profit argument stopped being true a few days ago, when Google announced their earnings including the mobile break down.
- evgen 16y agoGoogle does not profit from Android, they profit through mobile advertising which has very little to do with a specific phone OS. The profit argument simply points out that the people who are producing Android phones have the lowest profit/handset in the industry and having a "sell more regardless of the low profit levels" strategy such as what Nokia used for the past decade is a recipe for disaster.