TechFlash article re: Android gains in smartphone market
Filed in Uncategorized on June 6, 2011 with 1 comment
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/06/android-gains-microsoft-slips.html
I’m not an expert on the smartphone market, so I won’t pretend to be one here. But a few random thoughts on this article:
- I haven’t been hiding under a rock, just in my basement office. But I didn’t realize Android was so far ahead of Apple. I guess this doesn’t include iPads, especially since it counts “subscribers” and a lot of iPad users just use Wi-Fi. Still, it’s looking good for Android. (Full disclosure: I converted from BlackBerry to Android about a month and a half ago.)
- Does anybody seriously think that Microsoft’s deal with Nokia is going to help them close the 30% gap? I worked at Microsoft for 10 years and I can tell you there are a lot of smart people there. If they can’t figure this out on their own, I’m not sure how Nokia can help.
- I keep hearing people insist that BlackBerry is still THE phone for business use. Have they ever bothered to ask “Why?” I ditched BB because of the poor performance and lack of apps. The line between one’s business life and personal life is almost non-existent anymore. BB is still in the game, but they’ve got their work cut out for them if they want to stay relevant.
- I’ve yet to produce a mobile application, but I recently reviewed the programming process for both Apple and Android, and I have to say Android looks a lot easier. 20 years ago you had to jump through a lot of hoops to develop apps for the Mac, but you could easily find a pirated copy of Basic or C to do programming for DOS, and later for Windows. I think we all know how that turned out.
Now all I need is a bigger battery for my HTC Thunderbolt…
I agree with your points, and am about to switch myself from BB to Droid.
In light of the pending class action lawsuit brought by RIM’s shareholders against their management for the failure to realize that RIM can’t maintain market share against current competitors, I’m wondering WHO is still saying that BB is “the” phone for business?