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This year maybe. But in two years time most phones will be Androids. We've been down this road before, except this time around an unencumbered OS is there from
by olefoo 18y ago
This year maybe. But in two years time most phones will be Androids. We've been down this road before, except this time around an unencumbered OS is there from the inception of the environment.
- Viper 18y agoIf the iphone is the jesus phone. Is the gphone the God phone? or is the android phone the agnostic phone?
- tptacek 18y agoWant to put $100 on that?
- olefoo 18y agoWhat exactly would we be betting and how are we going to judge the outcome? new phones in the preceding month? estimates of phones in use at time t[0] and t[1]? iPhones are in the minority of total phones in use right now. What geographic area do you want to restrict it to? Remember that most of the world cannot buy and operate a 2nd gen iPhone without voiding the warranty, and if you think that iPhones are going to dominate the market in asia and africa, you are being optimistic.
- redrobot5050 18y agoStop me if I'm wrong, but Apple actually got AT&T to develop features on the backend of their network to get visual voicemail working. Android was also a bid from Google to have the newly opened bit of spectrum be a "utility" band, where any device that gets FCC certified can plug into that network -- regardless of carrier or manufacturer. That didn't fly. I would wager that's a more telling indication of who's going to come out on top of the scrap heap. The wireless handheld market is not beholden to perfect competition. Especially not within the US of A.