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Android vs. iPhone — Who Wins In 2011?
Hugh Pickens writes "Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes in Fortune Magazine that Apple and Google have two very different strategies in the competition shaping up in 2011 between Android and iPhone. According to the conventional wisdom as espoused by Don Dodge, a Developer Advocate at Google, both Apple and Google will win because they are playing different games. Android will win the market share battle, but Apple will generate bigger profits. 'Apple goes for the high end of the market where they can charge high prices and enjoy great profit margins. Apple has been successful with this strategy multiple times, and will do it again with iPhone,' writes Dodge adding that Google's strategy with Android is to generate revenue streams from mobile search and advertising. Another Google employee, Tim Bray, sees things differently and says he won't be surprised if Apple ships a cheap iPhone and if this time next year, dirt-cheap iPhones were competing against Androids that push the user-experience lever farther than Apple. 'There's nothing fundamental in Android that would get in the way of a industrial-design and user-experience rock-star team, whether at Google or one of the handset makers, testing the hypothesis that these things are central to Apple's success.'"
You can't have the Apple faithful comparing themselves to Sony. Then they might have to admit that their chosen pet brand is not as special as they think it is.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Yeah, like OTA is a good thing.
Like when my HTC incredible forced an OTA update from verizon that didn't allow me to root it anymore and installed 3 new Verizon Applications.
At least on iOS you have the choice. (ha, you never thought i could say that)
"the hoops" as you put it, are basically registering and activating the device, and letting you put music on it. Your saying putting syncing and updating movies and music is easier on an android phone? Cause that's not the case, not by miles with my HTC incredible.
Almost every default app is terrible, and has to be replaced. I even hate the replacements, so it just forwards everything to my real phone (a jailbroken ip4)
app quality - don't even get started. Hows infinity blade coming along for android? sigh.