Posted on 04/02/2012 10:00:13 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
In short order, Google will launch its tablet. And in doing so it will start down the path of abandoning Android.
As I explained in my article on how to think about Android fragmentation, fragmentation is not the end of android, but means Google has lost control of Android. Google has lost control of both the Android platform and the Android brand.
Google is desperate to compete in the phone and tablet spaces (not to mention social networking). Android is a perfectly suitable technical platform to build on, but as a brand it is atrocious.
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I’ve never owned or liked Apple products. I bought a Droid Pro to avoid buying an iPhone.
My wife gave up on her droid and got an iPhone 4s. Being intellectually honest I will have a hard time not buying an iPhone when I upgrade.
It simply works and works quickly...
Unlike my Droid Pro. :(
My Windows phone works great as well. Quite flawless.
However, now I have an iPhone 4s and am on my second iPad and I have to admit that no one is better than Apple at producing a product that is elegant and refined in its design and operation. As you said, they just work. In fact, I have a very high-end desktop PC that now collects dust because it is just so much easier and more convenient to use my iPad for 90% of what I use a computer for. Ironically, the only time I really use my PC now is when I remotely log into in from my iPad via Splashtop to access something that I can't access directly from the iPad.
Android is by comparison just a clunky mess. Android has succeeded thus far mainly on the basis of price and heavy marketing by cellular carriers that make a larger margin on Android sales. It has great technical potential, but is too fragmented and desperately needs a software guru who can design an elegant, seamless OS for it. Android also lacks the "ecosystem" that Apple has excelled at producing. Everything Apple works with everything else Apple and the user rarely has to worry about settings, configuration, etc.
I am now a year into my ownership of an HTC (’droid) Inspire. It has been an awesome “phone” and one that my wife (with an iPhone) is very interested in switching to. She has declared that she will go to an Android/HTC phone when the iJunk finally croaks.
The problem with making judgements on Droid phones is that there are so many implementations on so many different phones your mileage WILL vary rather dramatically. That’s what review websites are for, but even then you still might wind up with one that’s no good. For iPhones it’s all about you, can you do things the Apple way (I can’t, the way Apple steers users in their UI is counter intuitive to me, all their products irritate me). For Droids you need a good implementation that ALSO matches your user habits, harder to find but almost certainly out there somewhere.
I am hoping another competitor (Windows) can start taking real market share, so as to keep prices low, while hopefully increasing operating system quality.
Kind of interesting considering they are still gaining marketshare and absolute growth.
Makes about as much sense at saying the Apple is planning on leaving the business too.
Kind of interesting considering they are still gaining marketshare and absolute growth.
Makes about as much sense at saying the Apple is planning on leaving the business too.
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