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Analyst Predicts Android Overtaking iPhone In 2012
Market watcher Gartner is claiming that by Q4 2012 Google's Android smartphone OS will have overtaken Apple's iPhone. Currently only the sixth most popular phone OS, Android is set to rocket into second place behind Symbian if the predictions are to be believed. The reason for the changing of the guard is that "many handset makers are betting their futures on Android, while Apple is just one company." 2012 rankings place Symbian at the top followed by Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry."
gartner is not some "dude". just because you've been an unqualified consultant, it doesn't follow that every other consultant is also unqualified.
When will you people stop this "Sybian joke"? Not only the toy is quite a niche/local product, generally not getting into the picture (mind?) when somebody hears the name "Symbian", but also...was this EVER funny?
One that hath name thou can not otter
a. more R&D spent by Apple (the closed ecosystem actually sped up development time)
b. 1yr head start (related to above. and look at openMoko, started 6mos before Apple and they still can't get the startup sequence right!)
c. copied the WinMo approach (water down a version of OSX and slap it on a phone!)
d. 1 hardware builder (part of the closed platform).
Otherwise, it's undeniable the appstore is crucial to making apple better than the other platforms. But iTunes syncing apps, 100MB+ apps and $5 crappy apps such are flooding the market.
To the OP, please tell where an android falls flat on "touch-wise, accelerometer-wise, GPS-wise, compass-wise, iTunes-wise.."... cause I must be stupid as my 1.6 donut does those functions equally or even better thana 3GS (and considering the compass was on all Android phones before it was on the iPhone). Sure it may not have the eye candy or glitzy fad-ins when it comes to UI design, but it works, has the same features and is rock solid...
Otherwise, your fanboy post has FAIL written all over it.
And don't worry: you guys forget the native/JNI layer recently added to Android, slap a snapdragon processor and it will be very hard for Apple to touch with dumping a lot into R&D to create any game changing features (when really the game changers to them are: multitouch, video!?, cut-n-paste!?, MMS!?, appstore).