Replies

The world-phone issue is really a dead one. Apple appears to be using both CDMA and GSM, as well as 'maybe' LTE in the iPhone5.Source

The Cloud is going to be a major issue, with Apple releasing IOS5, there are a couple neat features that no-one else has. Consider the songs of dubious origion. For a $20/yr fee; Apple 'legitimizes' your entire MP3 library - and the Artist/Song are listed in your iTunes personal library. DRM-Free; downloadable for up to 10 devices - indefinite storage - free. So, for people who have thousands of Napster songs from 10 years ago - for $20 - they are all 'legetimized'. No one else offers anything like this. For songs that you have, that are simply not recognizable - those will be copied into your account. The idea that this whole operation will consume about 20 minutes for the average user - not an overnight affair. From the Cloud - you can download music as you need it for up to 10 devices. Win7 and Android have nothing to compare with this, yet.Source

While on a transpacific flight, assuming you don't drop $$ for Go-Go Inflight internet; you are basically screwed if you have the $99 iPhone4. But, you are screwed with ANYONE's $99 phone. If you have a fully loaded iPhone3/3GS/4/5 - you have 16/32 Gig.

So your response is data that’s over a year old, and is for the US only - like the rest of the world doesn’t matter... I’ll take the StatCounter data I posted above - it’s more recent and it’s more inclusive.

As far as the world phone, that remains to be seen - it’s still a rumor, even your source admits as much. We’ll find out in a few more weeks, supposedly.

Transpacific flights are an issue - no GoGo Internet available. And I’m not screwed with the Droid 3 that I bought for $99 - it has a microSD card, in addition to the built-in 16 GB storage. So my 32 GB card (I have 2, actually) is a 20 second swap away. No worries there. I have 48 GB on tap at all times, and another 32 GB when I want it.

And I never have to worry about using slow 3G networks overseas (they’re often much slower than what we have in the US); tethering to the cloud is great if you have wide coverage of fast 3G data, AND your carrier doesn’t limit your usage. How good will that cloud service work when you’re limited to 2 GB of data?

Oh, about your graph - here's a new one from Nielsen (the same source) but a little more up-to-date. US Smartphone OS share and manufacturer share:

Android has 39% share in the US, iOS is at 28%. Pretty big change from the data you showed. The market has shifted quite a bit in the last 10 months!