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41 posts tagged android
“Did Apple just merged Windows Phone 8 with Android?”
Google is winning market share. Apple is winning profit share. What is more interesting than owning a unprofitable market segment?
“To put this another way, looking at ‘smartphone share’ or ‘profit share’ or ‘platform share’ all tell you something about the industry, but all three metrics mislead you if you try to treat them as a way to see who’s ‘winning’, because ‘winning’ means different things for Apple, Samsung or Google. After all, Google may well still make more money from searches on iOS than it does from searches on Android.”
Malware targeting mobile devices is rapidly growing in both the number of variants found in the wild and in their complexity and sophistication, but the only platform being actively targeted is Google’s Android, which researchers now say is resembling Windows on the desktop PC.
More and more obvious that Android is just a glorified and repeating story of the PC story.
I would have liked Gruber to say why he thinks Apple doesn’t do iTunes for Android (beside the obvious problem of platform fragmentation). Is it a marketing choice? Would this be perceived as a failure to dominate with iOS? Is it because the lack of engagement of Android users wouldn’t add much to Apple’s bottom line?
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97% of iOS users can use Google Now (iOS 5.0+). 25% of Android users can use Google Now (Jelly Bean+).
Fragmentation not a big deal?
”I explain the market share of Androïd by the systematic dumping of Androïd devices by mobile operators. How? They give (literally) smartphones to people who just don’t care about apps and mobile surfing. Many of them just want to place calls or send text messages. This explain why Androïd users seem to be less engaged, why profits aren’t there and why the vast majority of developers just go iOS first.
Now that Facebook is about to invade every Android device home screen (well, half of it, thanks to Android market fragmentation), how long will it take for Facebook to push ads on this thing? Sooner than later.
Samsung is presenting the Galaxy S4. Samsung kind of forget to mention this in an Android device. The number of software features (add-ons if you prefer, or gimmicks I prefer) is impressive. Nobody really care about most of the new features except all the geeks on earth. The others? They prefer products with a sense of balance between feature set, usefulness and really great device.
When I read news about Phil Schiller bashing on Android and indireclty Samsung products, I just hope this is not the start of losing focus at Apple. I think this is not a good idea to bash at others in order to send your message that your products or your things are better. Politicians do this all the time and I hate this.
Microsoft lost focused in the 90s for this reason. They made a lot of products just in respond to others taking lead in emerging markets. One prime example of that is Internet Explorer. They went after Netscape. When Netscape died, they went after AOL. Microsoft lost it eventually when the mobile industry picked and started to replace PCs.
I wish Apple keep their focus at doing great products that shows a perfect union of hardware and software tightly integrated. Don’t chase Android or Samsung. Follow your own destiny. Keep looking ahead.