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**baru gabung elementary class wkwkwk On Jun 6, 2010 5:40 AM, "Agus Hamonangan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Windows vs. the Mac OS. Internet Explorer vs. Netscape Navigator. The > iPhone vs. Android. > > The first two of those battles have defined computing over the past 25 > years, shaping how consumers use their PCs and how they surf the > Internet. Now many tech observers are predicting that the third battle > will dominate the coming era, determining how consumers use whole > classes of new devices from smartphones to tablet computers to > Internet-connected televisions. > > While many people still cling to their BlackBerrys, and a few to > Windows Mobile devices, Google's Android in little more than 20 months > has surged to become the strongest rival to Apple's iPhone and its > companion iPad, outselling the iPhone in the U.S. for the first time > in the first quarter of this year. > > Apple will seek to bolster its position Monday at its Worldwide > Developers Conference, where CEO Steve Jobs is expected to unveil the > next version of the iPhone, with new features that may help it regain > its advantage. Many also see the event as an opportunity for Apple to > fire back at Google, whose representatives made a number of verbal > gibes at Apple during its own developer conference last month. > > Talking smack may be good fun, but both companies are well aware of > the stakes. In recent months they've also engaged in dueling > acquisitions, each purchasing startups specializing in mobile > advertising and streaming media. > > "It's probably going to be an even bloodier battle this > > time around," said Tim Bajarin, a principal analyst at Creative > Strategies, a consulting firm. > > The two companies weren't always at odds. As recently as last summer, > Google CEO Eric Schmidt still sat on Apple's board, and when Apple > launched the iPhone in 2007, Schmidt was on stage to praise Apple's > achievement. > > But the battle started brewing not long after Google's move in fall > 2007 to unveil Android, its smartphone operating system. Jobs and > Apple were reportedly blindsided by the move. > > As Jobs put it last week at the D: All Things Digital Conference, put > on by a unit of Dow Jones, in describing how the two companies' > formerly friendly relationship had soured, "They decided to compete > with us (in mobile phones). And it got more and more serious." > > But the magnitude of the budding rivalry started to become clear only > in recent months, as the market for Android phones exploded. Google > has rapidly polished the software, and phone manufacturers have > responded: More than 50 phones made by more than 20 manufacturers in > 48 countries now run the operating system, up from just three models a > year ago. In the U.S., Android phones are on all four of the major > carriers. > > Consumers are starting to respond, too: According to the latest report > from Gartner, an industry research firm, Android-based phones outsold > iPhones in North America for the first time in the first quarter of > this year. Compared with the year-earlier period, Android phone sales > grew an eye-popping 707 percent. > > And analysts think that Android is only getting started. > > "In a couple of short years, they are going to be the No. 2 operating > system in the world — with virtually no marketing," Will Stofega, a > smartphone analyst with research firm IDC, said of Android, putting it > ahead of the BlackBerry OS and Apple iPhone. > > For many observers, it seems a familiar story, similar to what > happened in personal computer operating systems in the 1980s. Apple's > software was elegant, Microsoft's clunky. Many observers make the same > comparison between the iPhone OS and Android's "rough edges." > > But Microsoft allowed any personal computer maker to license and > install DOS, then Windows, while Apple kept Mac OS to itself. > Microsoft's strategy so trounced Apple's that by the mid-1990s, > Windows was on the vast majority of personal computers in the world — > and Apple was nearly bankrupt. > > For its part, Google has been eager to play up the parallels, > emphasizing how Android is "open" and the iPhone is "closed" and > asserting that openness will eventually win. > > At its recent developers conference, Google executive Vic Gundotra > even brought his daughter into the fray, saying she couldn't watch her > favorite Nickelodeon videos on her family's new iPad because the site > uses Adobe's Flash, and had to use Gundotra's Android phone. > > "That's what openness means," Gundotra said, in a reference to Apple's > shunning of Flash. "It's much nicer than just saying no." > > But it's not at all clear yet whether the smartphone market — much > less the emerging markets for tablets or smart TVs or other, new > "smart" devices — will play out the same way as the personal computer > market did. In fact, many analysts believe that while personal > computers eventually boiled down to two primary operating systems, > with one hugely dominant, the smartphone market is big and diverse > enough to sustain four or five. > > Apple still has its strengths. The more than 200,000 applications in > its Apps Store outnumbers by far the number of applications available > for Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile phones combined. And Apple > has sold 85 million iPhone OS-based devices in the past three years, > representing a sizable user base that Android has yet to approach. > > Still, as much interest as the Android-iPhone battle is drawing, it's > important to note that neither yet ranks among the top two smartphone > operating systems worldwide. Symbian — largely linked to cell phone > giant Nokia — still owns a commanding 44 percent share of the global > market for smartphone operating systems. Research In Motion's > BlackBerry operating system still leads among smartphones in North > America and is No. 2 worldwide. > > And Google has its vulnerabilities. While Apple is closely tuned to > consumer demand, Google has had a tough time reaching smartphone > customers. Google is soon to introduce the latest version of Android > with many new features, but its effort to sell the Nexus One > smartphone through the Internet was a self-acknowledged flop. > > Google and its manufacturing partners "have done a great job, they've > got a lot of fundamental advantages over Apple. The hardware has now > eclipsed Apple's," Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney said. "But Apple > continues to be successful because their message to the end user is > clear and singular and very easy to understand." > > The battle might not result in a clear winner and loser. After Jobs' > return to Apple, the company figured out a way to succeed in the > personal computer business without being the dominant player. Today, > while still having a minor share of the business, the company's > profits on its Macs are the envy of the industry and it is a leader in > adopting new technologies and making more environmentally friendly > machines. > > Apple could end up playing a similar role in smartphones. > > "We want to make better products than them," Jobs said at the D > conference. "What I love about the marketplace is that we do our > products, we tell people about them, and if they like them, we get to > come to work tomorrow." > > http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15228764 > > -- > Salam, > > > Agus Hamonangan > > http://groups.google.com/group/id-android > http://groups.google.com/group/id-gtug > Gtalk : agus.hamonangan > Follow : @agushamonangan > E-mail : [email protected] > > -- > "Indonesian Android Community [id-android]" > > Join: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android/subscribe?hl=en-GB > Moderator: [email protected] > ID Android Developer: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android-dev > ID Android Surabaya: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android-sby > ID Android on FB: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112207700729 -- "Indonesian Android Community [id-android]" Join: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android/subscribe?hl=en-GB Moderator: [email protected] ID Android Developer: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android-dev ID Android Surabaya: http://groups.google.com/group/id-android-sby ID Android on FB: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112207700729
