Android v iPhone is a bit like Alien v Predator
Android is catching up – according to google pr.
Quick ! Some boring sales data worth billions.
There were 314.7 million mobiles sold at end of May. Symbian number one with 44.3 %. BlackBerry OS 19.4% percent and dropping, 15.4% and rising, Android 9.6 % and rising fast, while Windows Mobile 6.8% and plummeting like the baloney it is.
Considering Android started from 0 while iPhone applications have been flying for 5 years, how
serious is this competitor?
Very, we’re told. Hold it. You walk into the room, pencil in your hand, you see someone naked and you say “who is that woman?” – to misquote Dylan.
That, my friend, is the blonde with the sliver of aluminium (sorry US folk) – while the other chap clinging onto his chunk of black plastic brick is kind of battling to wave his new phone in your face.
“look – I got Android..on my Android. Buy one -get – one free”
Believe it. In the US, the sales pitch was buy one phone, get one free. So halve the actual sales.
Sounds like a North Korean campaign to me. But really, the Android is about as sexy as a cough drop
.. at the moment.
Android? Why not call it Predator? Give it vicious teeth and night vision and the perceptions of an alien.
Can iPhone run Google’s main app, Google Search apps and Google earth?
Yup.
Android app developers better start thinking differentiation fast, and denial. Deny iPhone something.
Anything. Or else catch up is going to be a long and winding road.
But what will it take to actually catch up, let alone overtake?
Time and quality and word of mouth flogs iPhones. You haul one out and your buddies go “oooh I want one!”
Pull out your android-loaded alien and folk go ..
“What the funk is that ?” Looks like a cross between a Nokia and an iPhone version 1. Like raw
Finnish fish, a Nokia.
Androids are not exactly pneumatic, to use an Aldous Huxley phrase.
One thing is for sure, applications are like secret personal playthings. They sit patiently waiting for your input and bring results without complaints and on an iPhone, they don’t argue. They look beautiful.
Wait… developers tell me Android is pretty much the same. Don’t judge a phone by its cover.
Google has one up on Apple though. Google earth. Traveling from playing a gig the other night in Durban we four tired musos in the vintage V6 loaded with gear crested a hill in Durban North and stretched out below us was the truly impressive World Cup Moses Mabidha soccer stadium bathed in
light.
Martin the double-bass player/vocalist/developer/bestfriend had his iPhone open, but was using a Google app. Google Earth, with directions and photos. We steamed through Westville to a tiny street
at 01h00 Central African time, and drove straight into the driveway of our digs for the night. Not
one wrong turn. Passout.
Too dark for the map book – the iPhone was the natural device to use. The Android may have eaten us.
While Google has the edge with its Earth mapping, they made the fatal error of giving it to the MAc folk. Bit like giving your nuclear device to Kim Diseased Sung.
Does Siff Bladder have an iPhone… I mean does Sepp Blatter have an iPhone or a Blackerry? I reckon
a Blackberry.
Smartphones and Blackberry are for managers who’re too slow to figure anything out, and their IT managers have been shmoozed and they think they’re clever.
i-Phones are to people who are actually clever, and Android is for those who want to be clever. But
that’s just my view. Subject to change linked to IP.
Hold on! My wife has reminded me that Obama has a Blackberry. General McChrystal should be told.
But because Android is quite clever and its IP is growing, and the apps are free – watch out iPhone.
Nothing sells faster than the stuff’s thats’ for free. In the gnarled words of Eddie Izzard – do you
have an iPad?
That’s differentiation. Problem for Apple – it doesn’t talk to i-Phones. And its hard to hide in your
Kulta.
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Android is catching up – according to google pr.
Quick ! Some boring sales data worth billions.
There were 314.7 million mobiles sold at end of May. Symbian number one with 44.3 %. BlackBerry OS 19.4% percent and dropping, 15.4% and rising, Android 9.6 % and rising fast, while Windows Mobile 6.8% and plummeting like the baloney it is.
Considering Android started from 0 while iPhone applications have been flying for 5 years, how serious is this competitor?
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