Comments on: Android 2.0 vs iPhone: How Google could kill the iPhone this year

By: James Holland

James Holland — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:06:34 +0000

Would love to see a source for those figures Kevin… I’m not totally sold on the argument myself.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:13:56 +0000

Android has as many apps in 6 months as iPhone was able to put out in 5 years. What does that tell you about the scale of open source? It proves that people don’t want to be told how they are to be delivered information, they want to customize their own experience. The fact that iPhone will not support H.264, AIR and Flash only proves that iPhone doesn’t want their customers to be able to freely discover the internet. Sure, the iPhone is pretty, but without AIR and H.264, iPhone will not be able to keep up with the pace of application development vs. Android, or hardware specs for said applications. iPhone is crap, and everyone knows it. When Android 2.2 comes out, there will not even be any competition between firmwares.

By: Tu Jefa

Tu Jefa — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:50:56 +0000

FAN BOY!

By: Rash

Rash — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:21:26 +0000

One thing is for sure, Google certainly knows their game, Its not just the iPhone, Googles gonna be a huge threat to all phone makers! Especially with their free OS, Nokia better do something quick

By: Diana Feldridge

Diana Feldridge — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:42:22 +0000

Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone won’t kill each other. They’re both doing very well, and the market is big enough for the two to coexist.

I’m glad that Android has finally killed Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, and made it irrelevant in the smartphone race. We wouldn’t want a desktop monopoly to be extended into a smartphone monopoly.

By: D Lindsay

D Lindsay — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:34:35 +0000

yea yea yea but when does it come out on tmobile??!!!??

By: Johann Blake

Johann Blake — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:05:05 +0000

iPhones will still be around and thriving in 2010. The hype for the iPhone will probably die down as the hype for Android increases. Probably the biggest feature for Android isn’t Google Maps and Navigation but support for Flash. This is because Flash does open up the door for a lot of web based apps. It may even be possible to run a Flash app while offline although that depends on the capability of the browser supporting that. This of course is a major threat to the iPhone because as long as Apple continues to avoid supporting Flash, customers comparing phones will be impressed that they can view Flash-enabled sites on an Android device and that alone could be a selling feature. Apple is simply afraid that once they include Flash support, many developers will then begin to write Flash apps that could potentially run offline and therefore circumvent the need for customers to use the App Store to download apps.

As much as I like the iPhone, it would be naive to think that Apple’s competitor’s are just going to sit on sidelines and watch Apple gobble up the market. The greatest benefit that Android will offer both customers and developers is freedom from being locked in. When customers buy Android apps, in most cases, it is highly likely that the app will run on most Android devices.

Customers will be able to choose from a broad range of devices that compare to or exceed the features of the iPhone and developers will be able to maximize their profits by not having to hand over 30% of the sales of an app to Apple.

If I were a betting man, I would bet that in 2010, Android will have a higher rate of increase in market share than the iPhone. That doesn’t mean that Android devices will outnumber iPhone devices nor will there be more Android apps than iPhone apps. But the rate at which the Android ecosystem increases will be much higher than it is for the iPhone.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:21:58 +0000

Apple are just slick marketing and presentation, nothing they do hasn’t been done as well if not better by someone else, their “core market” are people who will always put device status before device function. On the odd occassions I go to London it’s full of them Iclone owners but tell them there are devices better than the one in their hot little hands and they are adament there isn’t, they’ve been brainwashed to that degree.

The thing that suprises me is that Sony shook up the gaming console world with the playstation and with the other phone manufacturers were caught napping by the original Iphone which was good in it’s time but now everyone has caught up. There are a number of handsets that are better than the present Iphone and will probably be better than the next, in fact there are too many and they are competing against each other rather than the Iphone. Android is making feature rich smartphones available to everyone rather than an exclusive, well marketed and overpriced status gadget. I’m actually waiting for the Apple Ivehadanoriginalidea but I’m not holding my breath.

By: jc

jc — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:00:43 +0000

i tunes blows…my wife got an i pod touch for xmas now I have to completely redo my music library on my pc to get it to sync music to her ipod. I just got the motorola droid with verizon and so far it is great and super easy to use on any pc. I guess if your a mac person the iphone is probably more impressive but I find the droid easier to use all the features. iTunes and iStore are just ways for apple to suck more money out of consumers that should have to spend it.

By: sean

sean — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:46:21 +0000

you couldn’t have said it better and i couldnt agree more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1