Those numbers will change in a year. Apple is spending a shit ton of money for ramping up manufacturing equipment, forecast for $7B this year. What other company has ever spent that much just on mfg equipment? One obvious reason is growth in China.
Money is really the only measuring stick because it's the only incentive to keep using an ecosystem - for hardware developers, software developers, carriers, third parties, etc.
Everyone involved should care about which ecosystem is sustainable. And money is the only way to make sure an ecosystem is sustainable.
As for platform issues, you might want to look into how much of Android's profits the purchase of Motorola cost Google. Something like 30 years worth. All the while, pissing off other hardware makers. Not sure how that doesn't bring up the issue of platform abandonment.
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The first amendment doesn't apply to the NY State Legislature....
Uh, last I checked, Congress wasn't the legislature of the state of New York.
Shirley.
Those numbers will change in a year. Apple is spending a shit ton of money for ramping up manufacturing equipment, forecast for $7B this year. What other company has ever spent that much just on mfg equipment? One obvious reason is growth in China.
http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/22/up-to-eleven/
Did you take yesterday off?
That's too precise.
They're not new...
Next month, when it's Firefox 15, someone will just add a '1'
Old customers, not new customers.
HTC doesn't make any money if you have the latest & greatest version of Android.
If people come in after you sprain your knee, I'm taking a baseball bat to every joint in your body.
That was kind of my point, hidden in sarcasm.
Pretty sure you don't understand their business model.
I just don't see that they did the right research.
Did the advertising increase business? Nobody seems to know.
Did the customers remember seeing a Facebook ad? No.
Those aren't the same thing.
So what if no one *said* they had come in because of FB?
Did more people come in or not? If yes, then the advertising worked. Whether the customers remembered Facebook or not.
Point taken. Except that doesn't seem to be happening, until after the fact of spending money there.
Glad at least someone got that I was being sarcastic.
That story doesn't ask or answer the question: Was there more business coming in after the Facebook ads?
They just asked if the people coming in the door were there because of Facebook.
Which one is more important?
You sound like you don't have an MBA. So what could you possibly know?
From the article:
"Comparing revenue “run rates”, on a yearly basis Android is 2.5% of iPhone or 1.6% of iOS."
OS to OS comparison.
Bigger by what measure?
Money is really the only measuring stick because it's the only incentive to keep using an ecosystem - for hardware developers, software developers, carriers, third parties, etc.
Everyone involved should care about which ecosystem is sustainable. And money is the only way to make sure an ecosystem is sustainable.
As for platform issues, you might want to look into how much of Android's profits the purchase of Motorola cost Google. Something like 30 years worth. All the while, pissing off other hardware makers. Not sure how that doesn't bring up the issue of platform abandonment.
I seriously, seriously doubt it. Android basically makes no money relative to Apple.
http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/15/android-revenues-in-perspective/
Why?
http://www.youtube.com/html5
It's Step 2.
How many businesses do what is best for the rest of society?
Do other market leaders act like that, such as Microsoft? IBM? Oracle? PeopleSoft? VMware? Dell? Lenovo?
On a tangent, since when do you get to decide what is best for the rest of society?
Why should they?
There are already other options to do that.
They make more money than anyone else - revenues and profits.
They control their destiny rather than relying on someone else.
Or alcohol!
Ever wonder why it's *always* turned on?
I just set up 2 servers that had 128GB RAM, running MS Server 2008 Enterprise. Guess what the boot drives had? Yep, a 128GB swap file.