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The thing about articles like this is that the authors are not interested in a real analysis of the situation. It is just unvarnished cheerleading. "Android"

The thing about articles like this is that the authors are not interested in a real analysis of the situation. It is just unvarnished cheerleading. "Android" is always going to sell more units than Apple's phones, because Android phones are much cheaper for the cell phone stores to buy and sell. They are to the phone store as the Promaster lens is to the camera store. Comparing meaningless graphs like percentage of market share is deceptive, and it is clear from his analysis that he doesn't actually want the people who skim his little blurbs to actually understand what they are seeing. If he did, he'd show a graph of the dollar turnover of the various app stores. Short version: you can roll into any phone store in the world and pick up an iPhone clone, and it will be cheaper for you, and more profitable to the phone store. Refute if you can. On the edit: typing this on my iPad and yes, a soft keyboard, while pretty good, still isn't good if you a re a touch typist. Corrected for spelling errors.

Andrewski 16y ago
By the way, this is about the millionth blog post I have seen like this. They could be machine generated for all I know. "Android will take over because they sell more phones, therefore one should code for an Android app store and platform." Something to ponder: Are the people who get Android phones (with the exception of a few Java or Linux geeks), because they are cheaper or "free" with the contract, the kind of people you want to target as your customer? Cheap people aren't flashing their cash. Another point to ponder: Oracle is targeting Google's Java (ok Dalvik, but it if quacks like a duck...) that has been thrown onto every iPhone and iPad clone out there. And Oracle will win their lawsuit, because a jury will simply say, if it walks like a duck... Is this a safe platform to code for? Maybe, but it is a gamble. Apple is facing a whole horde of jackals and vultures who want a scrap of meat, but they are much more vertically integrated and this includes the development environment, the language, the processor cores, you name it.
- gte910h 16y ago
  I really want current numbers. As of April, 90% of the app sales were in Apple although android had 40% of the phones.

Andrewski 16y ago

By the way, this is about the millionth blog post I have seen like this. They could be machine generated for all I know. "Android will take over because they sell more phones, therefore one should code for an Android app store and platform." Something to ponder: Are the people who get Android phones (with the exception of a few Java or Linux geeks), because they are cheaper or "free" with the contract, the kind of people you want to target as your customer? Cheap people aren't flashing their cash. Another point to ponder: Oracle is targeting Google's Java (ok Dalvik, but it if quacks like a duck...) that has been thrown onto every iPhone and iPad clone out there. And Oracle will win their lawsuit, because a jury will simply say, if it walks like a duck... Is this a safe platform to code for? Maybe, but it is a gamble. Apple is facing a whole horde of jackals and vultures who want a scrap of meat, but they are much more vertically integrated and this includes the development environment, the language, the processor cores, you name it.

gte910h 16y ago
I really want current numbers. As of April, 90% of the app sales were in Apple although android had 40% of the phones.