What is Digg?Sponsored by HowLifeWorks
Who Gets To Use Unsold Cruise Cabins at Huge Discounts view!
howlifeworks.com - How to access once-in-a-lifetime trips at significantly less than full price
168 Comments
- thecosmicpope, on 05/11/2009, -6/+88Surely it is easier to 'grow faster' if your current market is tiny in comparison?
- kentifer, on 05/11/2009, -5/+39Android == Anyone who wants to use it.
Apple Phone OS == Apple.
Many companies vs. 1 Company. - bodger, on 05/11/2009, -11/+41Android doesn't need iTunes.
WIN! - miketest, on 05/11/2009, -19/+46Growth by 900% would not still shadow iPhone users numbers.
- BalancingAct, on 05/11/2009, -5/+29One thing worth bearing in mind is that the number of Android based phones are going to increase significantly this year and next, so it won't take long to eclipse iphone numbers. Note that the vast bulk of those iphone numbers are due to the fact that they are tied to a long contract, but they will start looking around after their contract has expired. Apple only have the up and coming iphone 2 to offer as an upgrade, and the iphone hype responsible for the huge initial numbers has long since passed......
- NinjaBoy, on 05/11/2009, -0/+21Retort: Ask people if they would buy a phone made by Google. I know Google is only making the OS and a few apps but i think when people see GOOGLE in the product description it will sway a decent percentage of buyers.
- redrabbit, on 05/11/2009, -4/+23^This guy, he's a quick one!
- Hota, on 05/11/2009, -2/+19As long as we're spinning things with statistics...
Android has seen a staggering dropoff in growth already. 900% projected growth for Android in 2009 sucks compared to the infinite growth they had in 2008. - warnipples, on 05/11/2009, -3/+19Android is coming, and its going to work across all hardware platforms making it far more ubiquitous.
Not to mention applications made for android wont have to be rubber stamped by Steve Jobs himself to become available. Hands off my free speech please. - fanboydcs, on 05/11/2009, -11/+27Hah with that logic Windows Mobile would rule them all
- web2pointYo, on 05/11/2009, -5/+19lol.
Your probably right about the "iPhone hype". It will probably end up being as much a fad as that iPod thing Apple made a few years ago that everyone was only buying because it was white and was the fashion fad of the moment. - ReinMasamuri, on 05/11/2009, -3/+17As much as I'm starting to like Android, it's comparing apples and oranges.
Android is an OS, and the iPhone has 2 phones total. It's a different kind of achievement to have a large saturation for Android than it is for the iPhone. - louiemantia, on 05/11/2009, -9/+22People want iPhones. Go ask some average people out there if they even know what Android is.
- dicketj8050, on 05/11/2009, -0/+11Sam Sun?
- Hercules, on 05/11/2009, -2/+13And this is also the year of the Linux desktop.
*yawn* - Chirp08, on 05/11/2009, -2/+11I bet his intelligence is doubling daily!
- SlipStream89, on 05/11/2009, -1/+9I'm looking forward to owning an Android phone later this year. Especially since more markets are getting 3G on T-Mo and that there are going to be more options other than the G1
- osko2052, on 05/11/2009, -1/+8The average person still uses a Motorola Razr and your point is?
- clickmyface, on 05/11/2009, -5/+12If I sell 1 phone in 2009, and then sell 10 phones in 2010, i'll grow faster than Android and iPhone combined.
Suck on that math, bitches. - SpiderTeets, on 05/11/2009, -1/+8agreed.
physical keyboard wins every time. - AlexWiggy, on 05/11/2009, -4/+10Seems like it will be a good year or 2 for Android, they are branching out well.
Including many new phones and even an operating system. - priegog, on 05/12/2009, -0/+6@louiemantia:
Could you please care to explain how on earth is the iPhone open? And for that matter how does it not matter that the app store is closed, when it's the ONLY way to get apps on an iPhone? - Heidenreich12, on 05/11/2009, -3/+9of course... the iPhone is 1 Phone... Android will be on multiple phones. This isn't really a comparison
- dicketj8050, on 05/11/2009, -5/+11Yeah, I remember that iPod fad, what ever happened to those weird little things?
- DarkLaughingMan, on 05/11/2009, -2/+7How about computers?
PCs = Tons of manufacturers
Macs = Apple
Windows marketshare > Apple's marketshare - jeremymccurdy, on 05/11/2009, -1/+6That you`re trying to reference a ***** retarded meme.
- iritegood, on 05/11/2009, -1/+6But if any user is -that- computer-illiterate, they would still have to 'learn' how to use iTunes. Speaking frankly, I'm having hard time teaching my grandfather to synch his iPod and his iTunes. It would be much simpler if they worked as files on a portable thumb drive because he already has rudimentary computer skills (copying/moving files).
- jeremymccurdy, on 05/11/2009, -0/+5That one fighter would have never even gotten close to the Death Star without backup.
- Ellipsys, on 05/11/2009, -0/+5Android the OS, from what I can see, is excellent. However, the HARDWARE is what needs an upgrade. The T-Mobile G1 is a big, clunky mess compared to the iPhone. When selecting the hardware for the next Android phone, big wigs need to ask themselves "will this fit in the pocket of an average pair of men's jeans, without making it impossible to sit down, or look like have a huge, flat, square erection"? Give it a iPhone-like multitouch, finger-based screen. (no single touch, no stylus required). Make sure it has equal or greater power than the iPhone. If you're going to give it a physical keyboard, make sure it /feels/ good. The phone needs to have the latest revision Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3.5-4G, and possibly new technologies like Wi-Max. Use open standards for connectors (USB, headphone jack etc.) etc.
Android has the power of Linux and can bring unprecedented openness and features to a phone, but much like the PC world, you need to sell both the hardware and the software. While it would be an excellent day if Android was able to be installed on any phone, much like putting Arch or Ubuntu on your PC, but until that happens you need to sell the physical brick, not just the OS. The iPhone has the market cornered on /sexy/ and ergonomic, aside from expensive phones that typically have to be purchased direct, without contract discount ($600+ Samsungs/Sonys). Those same expensive phones, are usually laden with a clunky Windows Mobile OS. The iPhone is on top now and if there's a chance of anything competing with it, it needs to be a better physical phone, as well as a better OS. - vitriolix, on 05/11/2009, -1/+6Yes, many many times I've had people walk up to me and ask if they can see my G1 when I'm out typing on it in public. Its about evenly split if they refer to it as a G1, "Google Phone" or "Android". So yes, they do.
- wejmahtin, on 05/12/2009, -1/+6And Google isn't a company whose fanbase is ready to follow them off a cliff? You're giving over every spec of privacy you had left to a company who has no problem selling it to the highest bidder, yet you praise them as if they've invented something.
- BalancingAct, on 05/11/2009, -1/+6The article says 900%, not 90%
- gizzymo, on 05/11/2009, -2/+7finally someone with a clue!
- christinme, on 05/12/2009, -0/+5it is sad....really. I always thought that google was good at staying above the "standard". Guess not. Nothing new with this OS that hasn't been done. Iphone OS 3 will bring all and more to the iphone than the gphone OS. This article obviously states the fact that the gphone is just trying to maintain similar specs to the OS 3.0. Which means that google knows that the iphone is better and it is just trying to keep a close distant. If google actually tried to do something new and inventive then maybe it would gain ground, but right now barely anyone has used a gphone extensively. Most use it because it is the new and latest toy.
- geodebug, on 05/11/2009, -0/+4I knew that I'd be annoyed by the comments here and I wasn't let down. At least digg is consistent.
- AlexWiggy, on 05/11/2009, -2/+6Win!
100 internets to you my sir.
Someone finally understands. - quarando, on 05/12/2009, -0/+4iPhone will never be "just another cell phone". Apple will ensure that the iPhone is always differentiated from the market in some significant way and then they will market the hell out of it. Have you been paying attention to Apple's strategy for the last 25 years? Furthermore, the rather loyal Apple fan base will ensure that there is always a buzz surrounding what Apple is doing with the iPhone.
- magneteye, on 05/12/2009, -0/+4It will be interesting to see how it actually pans out, but I kind of feel that Android missed the boat.
- cowboy86, on 05/11/2009, -1/+5FAIL.
- curlybracket, on 05/11/2009, -0/+4And the only reason it worked was because the whole thing was a fictional story.
- diesel3291, on 05/12/2009, -0/+4900% of 1 is only 9
- ghostcat, on 05/11/2009, -0/+4This article is pretty misleading. That said, it's good to see that another platform is poised to give the iPhone some competition in the future. They need someone breathing down their necks matching them feature for feature so they don't wait forever to include simple things like cut and paste and mms. Competition is healthy. The only problem I see is that it'll probably take android a couple of years before they have hardware and software to match the iPhone's. (and to get said hardware into people's hands at a reasonable price) What android desperately needs is a hub to get apps that matches, or surpasses, iTunes. Right now there is no central place to easily search for and download apps for android.
- loconet, on 05/11/2009, -0/+4Huh? Android _is_ the Operating System (plus userland stuff).
- tnoy, on 05/12/2009, -0/+4Apple has been using that marketing stragety for years now.
- Schmich, on 05/11/2009, -0/+3Also a lot of people who want the iPhone already got one so it's harder (less easy?) to get buyers compared to before.
- nutmac, on 05/11/2009, -1/+4iTunes is both one of iPhone's major weaknesses and strengths. On one hand, it lets you sync various important data to your PC, Mac, or Yahoo! or Google. But on the other hand, it's a bloated beast, with each click frequently taking few seconds to respond on anything but a quad- or octo-core computer.
- quarando, on 05/12/2009, -1/+4Did PC win the PC vs Mac war? Windows PCs have over an 88% market share, but Apple is among the most profitable tech companies in the world. They are sure doing much better than Dell, HP or Gateway.
My point is not that Mac won the 'war', but that comparing Mac OS X market share to Windows and declaring Apple a failure misses the point. Apple doesn't compete for overall market share, they sell premium products at high margins and are quite successful at it.
iPhone will be the same way. iPhone will not be dominant in terms of market share in the long run, but they will have a solid user base and a very profitable product. - hyderalamgir, on 05/11/2009, -0/+3The time you wasted watching that video
- MScrip, on 05/12/2009, -0/+3>> "Android is coming, and its going to work across all hardware platforms making it far more ubiquitous."
But the problem is... an Android phone will be sitting next to an LG What-the-***** at the store and someone will think the LG is cooler looking, and buy it... completely clueless as to why Android is better.
People just won't know what the hell Android is. - inactive, on 05/11/2009, -2/+5Yeah, the part of the iphone that is going to kill android, is that 30 pin connector in the bottom. Apple is giving manufacturers access to build peripherals for it.
Imagine you are joe average consumer with diabetes.
I can buy a glucose meter for iPhone.
I can buy an android glucose meter for Sony Ericsson.
I can buy an android glucose meter for Nokia.
I can buy an android glucose meter for HTC.
I can buy an android glucose meter for Motorola.
Or you are getting barcode scanners, or you are getting any hardware to go with it.
It's the same reason why you can find a bajillion docks for iPod but not for generic MP3 players.
(It reminds me of Palm OS in a way. You could buy a Sony Clié which was great but took memory stick. Or you could buy a palm but it wouldn't do the media stuff the Clié did. Different external keyboards for different PDAs.) -
Show 51 - 100 of 170 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is