I doubt that Android has staying power for 5 years let alone 10. Google can only do so much to avoid patent warfare.
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What will it take for Apple to overtake Android's vast marketshare?
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I doubt that Android has staying power for 5 years let alone 10. Google can only do so much to avoid patent warfare.
Apple needs to be more concerned about infringing on patents. Motorola basically owns the patent to anything regarding mobile communications. Apple could be screwed.
http://allthingsd.com/20120829/moto...andard-essential-patents-to-apple-in-germany/
Nope. Patents are not carte blanche to sue the hell out of competitors.
Famous last words.
RIM was hot 5 years ago. Where are they headed today? Around the toilet bowl.
Or iOS could be MySpace and Android could be Facebook
You can apply such comparisons to more than one mobile OS.
RIM was never hot. Dumbphones were the norm in RIM's time. RIM was engulfed by the iPhone and now, phones like the iPhone are the norm. Much bigger gamechanger than RIM ever was.
Since you seem to think Android will die in 5-10 years, what will take its place?
The smartphone market has never been this big until the iPhone came along. Most people had dumbphones when RIM was king. Now, most people in the US have smartphones. Apple did what RIM could never do.
That doesn't prove your claim that RIM was never hot. In fact it supports it: "...when RIM was king."
I remember the on RIM forums. Blah blah it's stale, I'm bored etc etc. then oh boy here comes the next one....another mildly changed phone with a boring OS.
That sound a lot like Andr....oh wait it sounds like the iPhone....
Apple and Google are hot. RIM was warm.
It's easy to be the king when you're at the top of a hill (smartphones pre-iPhone) instead of the mountain (dumbphones pre-iPhone)
Yep! It's still offered on Apple's website:
http://store.apple.com/au/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone/iphone4
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Well then you've also just drastically reduced the number of Android devices out there. Applying your logic to Android means that all of the Nexus line are basically the same phone. This would also mean the Galaxy S, Galaxy S 2 and Galaxy S 3 are not different phones, but a "marketing strategy".
Or wait, is the Apple case special? When Apple does it, it is a "marketing strategy" and when Android does it, it's "fragmentation".
Also, their low end phones are offered at absolutely insane prices. In Australia, a 8GB 3GS which is more than 3 years old and bordering on useless is $449AU. I can get a 16GB unlocked Galaxy Nexus for under $350-$400AU ($1AU = $1.03US)
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Ah, Hello! Have we not been in a recession for some time? Our unemployment is pretty high too. Maybe not as high as theirs and i really dont know but it is pretty high for us.
Lol that was just to describe how addictive they are to their owners to use. It doesn't mean they were wildly popular.
Yea and 50% of not much is even less. The smartphone market was relatively tiny at RIMs peak.
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50% is meaningless without raw data.
I sold 4 drinks. One Orange, two Apple and one Pineapple. Apple has a 50% share. Is it "wildly popular"?
How can you possibly talk about market share and leave out margins? People don't walk into a phone store and say "I'm going to buy this Android phone because it has sold more units than this iPhone." If you want to talk about market share than lets talk about how much money those Android developers are making off of their millions of sales.
Make a phone that makes sense again? Just saw what the new iphone is supposed to look like. Its jut taller and skinnier than the current iphone and the resolution is obscure and flat out stupid, 1136x640? Apple would have been much wiser going with a standard like, oh I dunno 1280x720? You know, those HD displays every other high end phone on the planet has had or is coming out with? I can only imagine how horrific it will be trying to text on a display that narrow and how retarded that will make websites look. Apple should just stick to music players and computers, they have apparently lost it when it comes to phones.
Apple would have been much wiser going with a standard like, oh I dunno 1280x720? You know, those HD displays every other high end phone on the planet has had or is coming out with? I can only imagine how horrific it will be trying to text on a display that narrow and how retarded that will make websites look. Apple should just stick to music players and computers, they have apparently lost it when it comes to phones.Apple would have to completely break its business model. They would have to sell multiple models of smartphones all at different prices ranging from free to what they sell for now. Or they would have to license out iOS to third party manufactures.
Neither of which are going to happen, because from a business standpoint, Apple is way more successful than any other company (profits), whether it be manufactures, or Google itself.
Neither of which are going to happen, because from a business standpoint, Apple is way more successful than any other company (profits), whether it be manufactures, or Google itself.
Perhaps because margin have nothing to do with market share?
People don't walk into a phone store and say "I'm going to buy this iPhone phone because it has more margin than this Android."
Or we can talk about the weather, it has the same relation with marketshare
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The same can be said about Symbian, iOS or other OSes
And what they will face?