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Translation: Our manufacturers are getting desperate, and are about to subsidize and/or give away a metric assload of phones to a lot of people who are too chea
by CamperBob 17y ago
Translation: Our manufacturers are getting desperate, and are about to subsidize and/or give away a metric assload of phones to a lot of people who are too cheap to buy your apps.
- dminor 17y agoI think your translator is broken -- there's just a bunch of new Android phones all coming out at once, whereas before last month there was only the G1 on T-Mobile. Hence the explosion.
- dminor 17y agoHere's Gartner's prediction of Android going from 2% to 14% by 2012: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139026/Android_to_grab_No._2_spot_by_2012_says_Gartner http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139026/Android_to_gr... There may be as many as 40(!) phones coming out in 2010.
- henrikschroder 17y agoHere's Gartner's prediction of everything: Growth! <insert picture of exponentially growing curve>
- charltones 17y agoDid I imagine it, or was there a website posted here a while ago that tracked these kind of predictions against reality? I had a quick google for it but couldn't find it.
- cmalabs 17y agoYou're thinking of http://wrongtomorrow.com/ http://wrongtomorrow.com/
- blasdel 17y agoThey said the exact same thing a year ago about the cornucopia of phones that would come out in 2009
- StrawberryFrog 17y agoWater runs downhill. The shiny proprietary awesome gadget that apple made last year had been duplicated this year, and that will be mass marketed in a dozen varieties next year. Apple is readying a new shiny proprietary awesome gadget. Water runs downhill.