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Originally Posted by
joindup 
A previous comment nailed it. As App Developers, we develop for 4 platforms - iOS, Android, Windows Phone and webOS, but when it comes to pricing a warranty for a client for an Android App, we have to consider - Dell Android? HTC Android? Samsung Android? 2.1? 2.2? Screen resolution? etc. etc.
It's very interesting you don't develop for BlackBerry. Why not? Thoughts on BlackBerry 6?
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Originally Posted by
joindup
As a company that designs and build custom iOS-specific Chips, Batteries, Screens, Hardware and Software, Apple does create supply problems for itself. But not being able to build products fast enough to satisfy demand is a problem I'd like to have.
Maybe you, but not me, not here. When there's such a demand for phones, that you're losing sales, this is a more serious problem than most think. It's one thing if customers hear "Sorry, five-week wait", and they choose to wait. That's one thing. But it's a whole 'nuther story if they walk out of the store with an Android phone. Those people may be satisfied with Android, and buy apps, and stick with the platform. That's lost money on Apple's end, for years on end. If Apple made enough to keep up with demand, then perhaps they could sell over 200,000 per day.
Right now, Apple makes about 160,000 iPhones per day, and that's not enough. Foxconn's building another factory that will make another 200,000 per day, meaning within a year, Apple could make 360,000 iPhones per day. But another thing I hear is that smartphone demand is increasing by 100% year to year. So it's not impossible to think that by 2012, demand for iPhones could reach 500,000 per day. This supply shortage problem is likely a chronic issue for Apple, I'm afraid. It's easier to keep up with iOS demand if Apple allows multiple manufacturers to use many more factories to build iOS phones. Steve won't do that, however, and I can't entirely blame him for that.
The one thing that may save Apple, here, is Android's Oracle patent suit. If Apple and Microsoft can work separately or together to sell to HTC, Samsung, and all these other Android makers, the concept that continuing to support the platform is an expensive mistake, then perhaps the Android makers will stop developing Android products. Then, customers would be forced to switch from Android. This gives Apple the chance to, in the meantime, build enough factories to make a million iPhones, or more, per day, and hopefully get back on the right track with supply vs. demand.
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Its been resolved with 4.1 from everyone I know, and it wasnt even present on the 3G of one family member who installed 4.0 against by recommendation.
) create apps for iOS. Microsoft won out partly because of the lockstep Office/Windows and because of third party developments. The Android market is so immature compared to the iOS market that the development is still in Apple's favour. Phones like Android phones, RIM phones, Nokia and a future WinPhone7 have a lot of catching up top do still. And the actual money made in Android market is still not much (let alone the other contenders). As long as that is the case, the Mac/Win95 comparison is not really applicable.
