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Android is larger - no question. We have 4 vendors, each with numerous models - all competing with Apple’s 3 iPhones. And each of Apple’s iPhones are at least 18 months old - I’d say that ain’t too shabby.

I agree, according to RUMORs (that’s all we have, until a ‘rumored’ Sept 7th announcement) is that pre-orders for the iPhone 5 will be Sept 30th, with release for Oct. 7th.

Personally, I suspect that Apple has some tricks up their sleeve. I expect the iPhone5 will be a World-Phone (same phone, any network), in addition to LTE. LTE was installed in the Apple retail stores for both Verizon and AT&T. Timing is everything .... why install LTE in your retail stores, if you have no products that will use it? Why install it now, if the ‘rumored’ iPad 3 will have it; but that won’t be released until 2012.

Apple is very good at keeping things under wraps. Too bad no Apple intern has gone to a bar and gotten drunk, and left their proto-type iPhone5 on a bar stool, like last year.

I do know that in the tablet space; Apple is totally kicking butt, which is unexpected. I didn’t expect Blackberry and HP to fold so quickly - and I don’t understand how Apple can have the margins they do - and HP can’t make an Android tablet that undercuts the iPad in price. This was a total cluster-muck.

One of the problems that Android is going to have going forward, is the plethora of processors that it’s required to support. Apple has the ARM platform - and that’s it. Each device is known and streamlined in the OS. Android supports over a dozen processors, and a plethora of displays, Wi-Fi chipsets, memory, USB, Bluetooth, et. al. chipsets. There is no reference design base that is published by Google. I suspect this is one of the reasons they bought Motorola Mobile.