[The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-27 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Sigh. Quoting apple _rumours_ to make your points is always going to lead to tears. Never do it, just makes you look like a fool. http://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/14850981422 On May 27, 6:18 pm, Karsten Silz wrote: > On 27 Mai, 14:50, "Vince O'Sullivan" wrote: > > > On May 26, 9:55 pm, Karst

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-27 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/27/10 20:27 , Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > On 5/27/10 18:15 , Casper Bang wrote: > > >> Perhaps Apple recognizes this and that's why apparently Ballmer >> will join Jobs on stage at WWDC: >> http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-ballmer-steve-jobs-wwd

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-27 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/27/10 18:15 , Casper Bang wrote: > > > Perhaps Apple recognizes this and that's why apparently Ballmer > will join Jobs on stage at WWDC: > http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-ballmer-steve-jobs-wwdc-2010-5 Sounds > as I'll have some fun reading

[The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-27 Thread Karsten Silz
On 27 Mai, 14:50, "Vince O'Sullivan" wrote: > On May 26, 9:55 pm, Karsten Silz wrote: > > > Speaking of money - Apple has now a bigger market cap than Microsoft, > > Although Microsoft is making almost three times higher profits. In the most recent quarter, it's actually "just" 4 billion (MS) vs

[The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-27 Thread Casper Bang
Yup, Microsoft is just sorta cruising along on existing inertia trying to minimize drag, while Apple continues to ignite new booster stages of their rocket. However that's purely from a gadget viewpoint, if you look at development tools and technologies (which we should be concerned with in a progr

[The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-27 Thread Karsten Silz
On 27 Mai, 14:50, "Vince O'Sullivan" wrote: > On May 26, 9:55 pm, Karsten Silz wrote: > > > Speaking of money - Apple has now a bigger market cap than Microsoft, > > Although Microsoft is making almost three times higher profits. If you assume any sort of rationality in the stock market, then th

[The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-27 Thread Vince O'Sullivan
On May 26, 9:55 pm, Karsten Silz wrote: > Speaking of money - Apple has now a bigger market cap than Microsoft, Although Microsoft is making almost three times higher profits. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this g

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-26 Thread Marcelo Fukushima
that reminds me of a funny thing that happened with a major newspaper here on brazil: its main page had a link to an iPad version that would open the flash version of the page it was taken down after a couple of days (it lasted a bit because the iPad is not officially here yet) On Wed, May 26, 201

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-26 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/26/10 22:51 , Karsten Silz wrote: > > Right now, I guess the gap between iPhone OS and Android is still > widening. Google says that there are 100,000 Android phones > activated a day. Assuming that's for every day in the week, then > this comes

[The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-26 Thread Karsten Silz
On 26 Mai, 22:51, Karsten Silz wrote: > competitor to Android.  The other one is how much Apple values market > share over profits: Nokia sells more than times the amount of phones > that Apples does, but Apple makes more money doing this. Speaking of money - Apple has now a bigger market cap tha

[The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-26 Thread Karsten Silz
On 26 Mai, 20:04, Casper Bang wrote: > Of course, it also tells the story of how afraid Apple and Nokia > should be with Android artillery quietly moving in and getting ready > to carpet-bomb and saturate the marked. Right now, I guess the gap between iPhone OS and Android is still widening. Goo

[The Java Posse] Re: Android - the "American Nokia" of smartphones?

2010-05-26 Thread Casper Bang
At least you have paid apps in Italy! :) I'm on my second Android phone, running 2.2 and yet it is not possible for me to (officially) purchase commercial apps in the entire Scandinavia (or Canada and various other countries). That's Google's biggest blunder by far and it fits your theory that Goog