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Antonio Rodriguez, a successful serial entrepreneur and now a VC, is very pessimistic about the future of Android.In this post titled: Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you, he argues that the splintering of the Android market into many different versions will create an unsupportable multitude of operating systems and mobile hardware that will doom the operating system.I used to think that, as with Linux and web services in ...
Fragmentation is busy killing Google’s OS, as Apple comes close to outselling Android for the first time. Sales of Apple iOS and Android smartphones are now neck and neck in the US. According to research outfit NPD Group, iOS phones accounted for 43% of smartphones sold in the US in October and November. Android’s share? 47%. That's the closest Apple’s operating system has ever been to Google’s “juggernaut”. But, "Android is winning". Yes, Apple’s share of sales in those months ... It’s "all Android, all the time". That's what they’ll tell you. It's "totally blowing away the competition".According to Gartner, Google's pet project (which as we all know, doesn't generate any meaningful revenue) Android now commands 52.5% of the global smartphone market. Huh?Where are all these Android phones?On the face of it, the market share numbers make sense. You have a powerful operating system and ecosystem (second in number of apps only to Apple). You have numerous device makers, including ... We've all read the comparisons, we know about the rivalry, but one thing that has recently started bugging me about the epic Android vs Apple battle is the omission of a key fact. One of Android's strengths, as I mentioned in a previous post, is that it’s available on a wide range of handsets, giving you plenty of choice. With this choice, however, comes a few sacrifices and I've only come to realise this key fact now.Samsung, HTC, Motorola, ...
Mobile phone manufacturers, operators and of course Google started a big push on Android into Africa this year.Samsung, HTC and Huawei are moving Android phones into the market. Some operators are seeing the signals and starting to subsidise Android handsets to get them to a price point that is palatable by a larger number of buyers. Google continues to push for local content, works with developers, does g-[country] events and puts on contests.While the primary phones in Africa are ...
Probably the most significant development in smartphone technology, apart from the technology itself, is the rise of mobile applications. In fact, the International Data Corporation predicts that the number of mobile application downloads worldwide will grow from 10.9-billion in 2010 to 76.9-billion in 2014 and mobile app revenues will surpass US$35-billion in the same year. Paulo Ferreira, Head of Product and Software Solutions at Samsung, reckons the most important reason for apps becoming so successful is that people’s most important ...
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