On Jan 8, 9:25 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > Very soon, Android and Apple won't > even be in the same league and Apple's position will depend on whether they > can beat RIM and/or Microsoft.
One thing most Android supporters forget when they count smartphone shipments is the iPod Touch which makes up maybe 35% of the iOS devices (Apple doesn't break down the iPod models they sell). For nearly all iOS developers, it's a perfectly valid target, just like the iPhone. As for Apple's non-Android competition: It's astonishing in which bad shape they all are: Blackberry introduced its OS 6 to yawns in Augutst, along with sub-par hardware (screen resolution!). They also just end-of-lifed OS 6 by announcing that eventually its Playbook OS will be ported down to smartphones, once they can get powerful enough CPUs (because we all know it takes dual-core CPUs to build a smartphone). Palm smartphones got end-of-lifed when then-CEO Hurd announced, just after the Palm purchase, that he won't invest billions into smartphones. The Palm Pre 2 (great software, crappy hardware) didn't help much, either. We'll see if HP can revive this in their February event. Nokia just got a new CEO. That means the organization will be mostly paralyzed until the inevitable restructuring and layoffs occur. The currently shipping smartphone OS Symbian seems to have been end-of- lifed nevertheless, and Meego as the future smartphone / tablet OS doesn't ship on smartphones or tablets. Oh, and the "iPhone killer" N8 isn't one. Microsoft has an impressive OS and good hardware, but got off to lackluster sales. They will continue to pour money into this, but I'm not sure how relevant they will be (see search). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
