I am curious to know why tens of millions of iPhone owners should have a lesser device because less than 1% can?t be bothered to go the cheaper route of plugging in an external battery pack if they happen to run out of juice.
As an iPhone owner and Family Plan user, AT&T is expensive relative to Sprint and T-mobile unlimited bundling plans, but not so much, relative to Verizon. For Family Plans, there are many ways in which AT&T can be cheaper than Sprint.
As an AAPL shareholder, I want Apple to sell lots of iPhones. As a AT&T customer, I want AT&T to not get new subscribers so that they will feel compelled to lower their prices. (If AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, what's one thing that will happen? They'll cut prices.) Finally, as an iPhone owner, I don't want any more new iPhone users eating up the precious bandwidth. It's no fun being an AAPL shareholder.
I wouldn't be claiming doom and gloom for RIM they have quite a few new products coming out this quarter namely the 9700 and Curve 2, although I think they are marketing the Curve 2 wrong (as a budget entry level phone this thing should be 99 bucks, and it still sports some solid hardware). While I don't like the small form factor of the new Bold (I have the old one) its still an amazing device and will do quite well now that its not exclusive to AT&T and T-Mo lacking good phones at a 199 price.
Most of RIMs new customers are BIS users (I believe Lazardis said 80% of their new subscribers were not corporate users) so they are still doing quite well with steady growth in the consumer market.
Most corporations and banks and government agencies aren't jumping to the iphone, BES is just too powerful and the devices security runs circles around the iphone, so everyone has to step their game up regarding enterprise usage. Oh and Apple certainly didn't do themselves any good faking on device encryption for previous models before the 3GS...The only downside is that its expensive to buy, but isn't that something that mac users are used to and love to trumpet all the time "you pay for quality"?
Besides I think this needs to be said, blackberries are made for a different audience, ill take my BBM, push email, flash browser (yay skyfire) and awesome qwerty keyboard any day over the iPhone, but simply put both phones do things better than others and someones preference of what they want their phone to do and ill be honest and tell you 3/4ths of the people whom I know who own an iphone bought it cause it can double as an iPod.
That can't be so - Google is the new Apple! I mean, look - their motto is "Do No Evil" - they have to be good if that's their motto!
It was pointed out in an article that it's strange that a company would think they had to use "Do no evil" as their motto. But they have done, haven't they?
People who are moving to Android because they think, somehow, that the phone is
"open" are wrong. Developers have already pointed out that you can't remove Google's applications, and that you MUST use their "cloud" back-up services, and that they use your data. Also, you're served up with Ads all the time.
Nothing is perfect. And I don't expect the iPhone to be perfect, and I don't expect Android phones to be perfect.
But this openness thing is silly.
Will we see a greater range of apps on Android? Not likely. Will we see more hardware compatible with it? Not likely.
The whole point for Google is to get these people using Google's software, so they can spread Ads throughout, and sell the data the users are sending to Google all the time.
If they don't make enough money doing that, what will happen to development? After all, they make no money on the product itself. It has to come from somewhere.
The entire project is more like Win Mobile than the iPhone.
As an iPhone owner and Family Plan user, AT&T is expensive relative to Sprint and T-mobile unlimited bundling plans, but not so much, relative to Verizon. For Family Plans, there are many ways in which AT&T can be cheaper than Sprint.
As an AAPL shareholder, I want Apple to sell lots of iPhones. As a AT&T customer, I want AT&T to not get new subscribers so that they will feel compelled to lower their prices. (If AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, what's one thing that will happen? They'll cut prices.) Finally, as an iPhone owner, I don't want any more new iPhone users eating up the precious bandwidth. It's no fun being an AAPL shareholder.
Both Sprint and T-Mobile are having problems. Sprint is raining customers over to Verizon and AT&T, and T-Mobile is static.
Of course they'll offer cheaper plans. They have to. It just cuts their profits, and cuts their R&D along with their expansion plans, which makes their service worse over the years.
While I have no experience with T-Mobile, Sprint customer service really sucks. They cheated me out of two $75 rebates, and for the third, I was so ticked, I fought with them for the third until I wore them down (having my lawyer send them a letter helped).
Having cheaper plans doesn't mean that they are good, just desperate.
I wouldn't be claiming doom and gloom for RIM they have quite a few new products coming out this quarter namely the 9700 and Curve 2, although I think they are marketing the Curve 2 wrong (as a budget entry level phone this thing should be 99 bucks, and it still sports some solid hardware). While I don't like the small form factor of the new Bold (I have the old one) its still an amazing device and will do quite well now that its not exclusive to AT&T and T-Mo lacking good phones at a 199 price.
Most of RIMs new customers are BIS users (I believe Lazardis said 80% of their new subscribers were not corporate users) so they are still doing quite well with steady growth in the consumer market.
Most corporations and banks and government agencies aren't jumping to the iphone, BES is just too powerful and the devices security runs circles around the iphone, so everyone has to step their game up regarding enterprise usage. Oh and Apple certainly didn't do themselves any good faking on device encryption for previous models before the 3GS...The only downside is that its expensive to buy, but isn't that something that mac users are used to and love to trumpet all the time "you pay for quality"?
Besides I think this needs to be said, blackberries are made for a different audience, ill take my BBM, push email, flash browser (yay skyfire) and awesome qwerty keyboard any day over the iPhone, but simply put both phones do things better than others and someones preference of what they want their phone to do and ill be honest and tell you 3/4ths of the people whom I know who own an iphone bought it cause it can double as an iPod.
While RIM is doing ok, their increase in phone sales and subscriptions has slowed down noticeably. This is due to the iPhone.
And corporations ARE moving over to the iPhone is good numbers. Government as well. It's a myth that they aren't.
I have more articles like these, but these should be enough to give you the idea.
Your last link doesn't work so idk what was on it but I read the other three.
The iphone in enterprise lacks features that BES offers, and BES is an expensive solution but "it works". If you have a small amount of employees and security is not a main issue (the example you provided showed Kraft foods lol not to say they aren't a company but seriously they are cutting costs where they can especially during the recession ) then an iphone deployment would be ok but limiting factors such as being available on one carrier kills that from being truly successful. Companies like Boeing aren't leaving for the iphone from BES and that's because the platform isn't ready.
Security wise the BB is unmatched, and seeing as how there are regulations in place for transfer of sensitive data (financial institutions like banks have to follow this) this is a big deal as well as government agencies. Ill be honest I haven't heard of any government agency deploying iPhones either (not saying they can't use them because I know some do) but when transmission of secure data is the main issue and being able to control every function of the phone remotely the iphone falls flat on its face sadly.
Ill be real, as long as you can consistently jailbreak iphones I wouldn't even consider them as a worthy option and that goes for 'droid and palm.
As for revenue we'll have to see next quarter. An analyst speculating cost is useless since most of the parts are rehashed from previous models (the 8520 and 8320 are practically identical except faster processor which comes from the 8900, lack of flash on camera, more memory and a trackpad which eliminates having to replace models with faulty trackballs example the Tour) and the same thing with the 9700 using parts from other phones
Oh and some asked me about using skyfire and incurring more charges. The answer is no and if my carrier did try something like that I'd wreak all kinds of hell lol
Your last link doesn't work so idk what was on it but I read the other three.
The iphone in enterprise lacks features that BES offers, and BES is an expensive solution but "it works". If you have a small amount of employees and security is not a main issue (the example you provided showed Kraft foods lol not to say they aren't a company but seriously they are cutting costs where they can especially during the recession ) then an iphone deployment would be ok but limiting factors such as being available on one carrier kills that from being truly successful. Companies like Boeing aren't leaving for the iphone from BES and that's because the platform isn't ready.
Security wise the BB is unmatched, and seeing as how there are regulations in place for transfer of sensitive data (financial institutions like banks have to follow this) this is a big deal as well as government agencies. Ill be honest I haven't heard of any government agency deploying iPhones either (not saying they can't use them because I know some do) but when transmission of secure data is the main issue and being able to control every function of the phone remotely the iphone falls flat on its face sadly.
Ill be real, as long as you can consistently jailbreak iphones I wouldn't even consider them as a worthy option and that goes for 'droid and palm.
As for revenue we'll have to see next quarter. An analyst speculating cost is useless since most of the parts are rehashed from previous models (the 8520 and 8320 are practically identical except faster processor which comes from the 8900, lack of flash on camera, more memory and a trackpad which eliminates having to replace models with faulty trackballs example the Tour) and the same thing with the 9700 using parts from other phones
Oh and some asked me about using skyfire and incurring more charges. The answer is no and if my carrier did try something like that I'd wreak all kinds of hell lol
I just tried the last link, and it worked, so it could have been a temporary server burp.
What seems interesting is that neither business nor government seem to care as much about that extra layer of security as do people such as yourself who are writing about it. The estimate is that there are three quarters of a million laptops lost or stolen every year in the US alone, and many more than that elsewhere. Many of these are from business and government. Many don't have much security on them. Yet, business and government gives these out to carry around with critical data on them. Go figure.
BES isn't that popular, it's been considered to be necessary, but that doesn't seem to be as true now. Win Mobile never was that secure, neither were Palm phones, or Nokia, but they ruled the roost for years.
RIMs success wasn't due to BES, it was due to the excellent e-mail abilities of the phones. I used to have people on their BB's checking email during meetings, and I'd have to tell them to stop it.
Oh and some asked me about using skyfire and incurring more charges. The answer is no and if my carrier did try something like that I'd wreak all kinds of hell lol
An interesting perspective. Are you the type that likes to hack your phone? Or are you the type that just want it to work?
I'm of the former when it comes to Phone/PDA's. It needs to be available to me without having to fart around with it to get it to work.
What leads you to the point Android needs to be hacked to be usable ? Out of the box it works comparable with iPhone in terms of usability. No tweaking, extra setup, it is no different from iPhone. It gives you more options, though, as Google are not such control-freak and don't limit you in ways what you can do with your device. One example...applications are limited to the Market (equal to AppStore), but you can bypass that and install whatever you want to your device. It is as easy to use for BFU and doesn't limit power users the way iPhone does. Win-win to me.
Out of curiosity, what is it that the iphone does not, that draws you to purchase an inferior product with limited software?
Are you sure your post is based on facts ? There is plenty of stuff that is impossible on iPhone but can be done on Android, such as multitasking, offline notifications, system-wide events, better search, better messaging. iPhone interface is more "polished" but I wouldn't call Android an inferior product nor it software limited, because in many ways, it is just opposite.
[Android] gives you more options, though, as Google are not such control-freak and don't limit you in ways what you can do with your device.
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Originally Posted by melgross
... Developers have already pointed out that you can't remove Google's applications, and that you MUST use their "cloud" back-up services, and that they use your data. Also, you're served up with Ads all the time. ...
I don't know, seems kind of controlling and limiting to me.
I don't know, seems kind of controlling and limiting to me.
I don't think the citation you provided is true. You can replace pretty much everything in the system, there is no need to use any built in features or cloud services. Sounds like FUD to me.
On the other hand it is fact that you only can legally install on iPhone what is in AppStore and that Apple won't permit certain applications. You don't have access to various parts of the system limiting what you can do with the device. Multitasking, notification, inter-application communication, all that is pretty limited on the iPhone. If it is ok for you fine, but please let other people make their decisions on their priorities.
It was pointed out in an article that it's strange that a company would think they had to use "Do no evil" as their motto. But they have done, haven't they?
People who are moving to Android because they think, somehow, that the phone is
"open" are wrong. Developers have already pointed out that you can't remove Google's applications, and that you MUST use their "cloud" back-up services, and that they use your data. Also, you're served up with Ads all the time.
Nothing is perfect. And I don't expect the iPhone to be perfect, and I don't expect Android phones to be perfect.
But this openness thing is silly.
Will we see a greater range of apps on Android? Not likely. Will we see more hardware compatible with it? Not likely.
The whole point for Google is to get these people using Google's software, so they can spread Ads throughout, and sell the data the users are sending to Google all the time.
If they don't make enough money doing that, what will happen to development? After all, they make no money on the product itself. It has to come from somewhere.
The entire project is more like Win Mobile than the iPhone.
This entire post is rubbish. Haven't seen that "served up with Ads all the time" on my Android yet. Definitely it is more open than iPhone.
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You're seriously expecting a sensible response?
I?m either an optimist or a sadist.
I am curious to know why tens of millions of iPhone owners should have a lesser device because less than 1% can?t be bothered to go the cheaper route of plugging in an external battery pack if they happen to run out of juice.
How is ATT so expensive?
As an iPhone owner and Family Plan user, AT&T is expensive relative to Sprint and T-mobile unlimited bundling plans, but not so much, relative to Verizon. For Family Plans, there are many ways in which AT&T can be cheaper than Sprint.
As an AAPL shareholder, I want Apple to sell lots of iPhones. As a AT&T customer, I want AT&T to not get new subscribers so that they will feel compelled to lower their prices. (If AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, what's one thing that will happen? They'll cut prices.) Finally, as an iPhone owner, I don't want any more new iPhone users eating up the precious bandwidth. It's no fun being an AAPL shareholder.
Most of RIMs new customers are BIS users (I believe Lazardis said 80% of their new subscribers were not corporate users) so they are still doing quite well with steady growth in the consumer market.
Most corporations and banks and government agencies aren't jumping to the iphone, BES is just too powerful and the devices security runs circles around the iphone, so everyone has to step their game up regarding enterprise usage. Oh and Apple certainly didn't do themselves any good faking on device encryption for previous models before the 3GS...The only downside is that its expensive to buy, but isn't that something that mac users are used to and love to trumpet all the time "you pay for quality"?
Besides I think this needs to be said, blackberries are made for a different audience, ill take my BBM, push email, flash browser (yay skyfire) and awesome qwerty keyboard any day over the iPhone, but simply put both phones do things better than others and someones preference of what they want their phone to do and ill be honest and tell you 3/4ths of the people whom I know who own an iphone bought it cause it can double as an iPod.
I want more variety if I'm stuck in a contract.
This should make for an "interesting" marriage.
Wow, I may have to add a row to teckstud_knowledge.
Let's not be hasty ....might just be a glitch!
..flash browser (yay skyfire)
Maybe....I believe exclusivity with a carrier with he lowest subscribers is ultimately what will make Palm fail.
That would be T-Mobile.
That can't be so - Google is the new Apple! I mean, look - their motto is "Do No Evil" - they have to be good if that's their motto!
It was pointed out in an article that it's strange that a company would think they had to use "Do no evil" as their motto. But they have done, haven't they?
People who are moving to Android because they think, somehow, that the phone is
"open" are wrong. Developers have already pointed out that you can't remove Google's applications, and that you MUST use their "cloud" back-up services, and that they use your data. Also, you're served up with Ads all the time.
Nothing is perfect. And I don't expect the iPhone to be perfect, and I don't expect Android phones to be perfect.
But this openness thing is silly.
Will we see a greater range of apps on Android? Not likely. Will we see more hardware compatible with it? Not likely.
The whole point for Google is to get these people using Google's software, so they can spread Ads throughout, and sell the data the users are sending to Google all the time.
If they don't make enough money doing that, what will happen to development? After all, they make no money on the product itself. It has to come from somewhere.
The entire project is more like Win Mobile than the iPhone.
As an iPhone owner and Family Plan user, AT&T is expensive relative to Sprint and T-mobile unlimited bundling plans, but not so much, relative to Verizon. For Family Plans, there are many ways in which AT&T can be cheaper than Sprint.
As an AAPL shareholder, I want Apple to sell lots of iPhones. As a AT&T customer, I want AT&T to not get new subscribers so that they will feel compelled to lower their prices. (If AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, what's one thing that will happen? They'll cut prices.) Finally, as an iPhone owner, I don't want any more new iPhone users eating up the precious bandwidth. It's no fun being an AAPL shareholder.
Both Sprint and T-Mobile are having problems. Sprint is raining customers over to Verizon and AT&T, and T-Mobile is static.
Of course they'll offer cheaper plans. They have to. It just cuts their profits, and cuts their R&D along with their expansion plans, which makes their service worse over the years.
While I have no experience with T-Mobile, Sprint customer service really sucks. They cheated me out of two $75 rebates, and for the third, I was so ticked, I fought with them for the third until I wore them down (having my lawyer send them a letter helped).
Having cheaper plans doesn't mean that they are good, just desperate.
I wouldn't be claiming doom and gloom for RIM they have quite a few new products coming out this quarter namely the 9700 and Curve 2, although I think they are marketing the Curve 2 wrong (as a budget entry level phone this thing should be 99 bucks, and it still sports some solid hardware). While I don't like the small form factor of the new Bold (I have the old one) its still an amazing device and will do quite well now that its not exclusive to AT&T and T-Mo lacking good phones at a 199 price.
Most of RIMs new customers are BIS users (I believe Lazardis said 80% of their new subscribers were not corporate users) so they are still doing quite well with steady growth in the consumer market.
Most corporations and banks and government agencies aren't jumping to the iphone, BES is just too powerful and the devices security runs circles around the iphone, so everyone has to step their game up regarding enterprise usage. Oh and Apple certainly didn't do themselves any good faking on device encryption for previous models before the 3GS...The only downside is that its expensive to buy, but isn't that something that mac users are used to and love to trumpet all the time "you pay for quality"?
Besides I think this needs to be said, blackberries are made for a different audience, ill take my BBM, push email, flash browser (yay skyfire) and awesome qwerty keyboard any day over the iPhone, but simply put both phones do things better than others and someones preference of what they want their phone to do and ill be honest and tell you 3/4ths of the people whom I know who own an iphone bought it cause it can double as an iPod.
While RIM is doing ok, their increase in phone sales and subscriptions has slowed down noticeably. This is due to the iPhone.
And corporations ARE moving over to the iPhone is good numbers. Government as well. It's a myth that they aren't.
http://www.businessinsider.com/smart...lients-2009-10
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB...178039307.html
http://iphonecto.com/2009/05/01/tren...he-enterprise/
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/s...leID=219200351
I have more articles like these, but these should be enough to give you the idea.
While RIM is doing ok, their increase in phone sales and subscriptions has slowed down noticeably. This is due to the iPhone.
And corporations ARE moving over to the iPhone is good numbers. Government as well. It's a myth that they aren't.
http://www.businessinsider.com/smart...lients-2009-10
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB...178039307.html
http://iphonecto.com/2009/05/01/tren...he-enterprise/
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/s...leID=219200351
I have more articles like these, but these should be enough to give you the idea.
Your last link doesn't work so idk what was on it but I read the other three.
The iphone in enterprise lacks features that BES offers, and BES is an expensive solution but "it works". If you have a small amount of employees and security is not a main issue (the example you provided showed Kraft foods lol not to say they aren't a company but seriously they are cutting costs where they can especially during the recession ) then an iphone deployment would be ok but limiting factors such as being available on one carrier kills that from being truly successful. Companies like Boeing aren't leaving for the iphone from BES and that's because the platform isn't ready.
Security wise the BB is unmatched, and seeing as how there are regulations in place for transfer of sensitive data (financial institutions like banks have to follow this) this is a big deal as well as government agencies. Ill be honest I haven't heard of any government agency deploying iPhones either (not saying they can't use them because I know some do) but when transmission of secure data is the main issue and being able to control every function of the phone remotely the iphone falls flat on its face sadly.
Ill be real, as long as you can consistently jailbreak iphones I wouldn't even consider them as a worthy option and that goes for 'droid and palm.
As for revenue we'll have to see next quarter. An analyst speculating cost is useless since most of the parts are rehashed from previous models (the 8520 and 8320 are practically identical except faster processor which comes from the 8900, lack of flash on camera, more memory and a trackpad which eliminates having to replace models with faulty trackballs example the Tour) and the same thing with the 9700 using parts from other phones
Oh and some asked me about using skyfire and incurring more charges. The answer is no and if my carrier did try something like that I'd wreak all kinds of hell lol
Your last link doesn't work so idk what was on it but I read the other three.
The iphone in enterprise lacks features that BES offers, and BES is an expensive solution but "it works". If you have a small amount of employees and security is not a main issue (the example you provided showed Kraft foods lol not to say they aren't a company but seriously they are cutting costs where they can especially during the recession ) then an iphone deployment would be ok but limiting factors such as being available on one carrier kills that from being truly successful. Companies like Boeing aren't leaving for the iphone from BES and that's because the platform isn't ready.
Security wise the BB is unmatched, and seeing as how there are regulations in place for transfer of sensitive data (financial institutions like banks have to follow this) this is a big deal as well as government agencies. Ill be honest I haven't heard of any government agency deploying iPhones either (not saying they can't use them because I know some do) but when transmission of secure data is the main issue and being able to control every function of the phone remotely the iphone falls flat on its face sadly.
Ill be real, as long as you can consistently jailbreak iphones I wouldn't even consider them as a worthy option and that goes for 'droid and palm.
As for revenue we'll have to see next quarter. An analyst speculating cost is useless since most of the parts are rehashed from previous models (the 8520 and 8320 are practically identical except faster processor which comes from the 8900, lack of flash on camera, more memory and a trackpad which eliminates having to replace models with faulty trackballs example the Tour) and the same thing with the 9700 using parts from other phones
Oh and some asked me about using skyfire and incurring more charges. The answer is no and if my carrier did try something like that I'd wreak all kinds of hell lol
I just tried the last link, and it worked, so it could have been a temporary server burp.
What seems interesting is that neither business nor government seem to care as much about that extra layer of security as do people such as yourself who are writing about it. The estimate is that there are three quarters of a million laptops lost or stolen every year in the US alone, and many more than that elsewhere. Many of these are from business and government. Many don't have much security on them. Yet, business and government gives these out to carry around with critical data on them. Go figure.
BES isn't that popular, it's been considered to be necessary, but that doesn't seem to be as true now. Win Mobile never was that secure, neither were Palm phones, or Nokia, but they ruled the roost for years.
RIMs success wasn't due to BES, it was due to the excellent e-mail abilities of the phones. I used to have people on their BB's checking email during meetings, and I'd have to tell them to stop it.
But those days are long over.
Ill be real, as long as you can consistently jailbreak iphones I wouldn't even consider them as a worthy option and that goes for 'droid and palm.
Well if you consider 50MB adequate for streaming flash, maybe you should wreak hell over here:-
http://www.vodafone.com.au/business/...scap/index.htm
Oh and some asked me about using skyfire and incurring more charges. The answer is no and if my carrier did try something like that I'd wreak all kinds of hell lol
An interesting perspective. Are you the type that likes to hack your phone? Or are you the type that just want it to work?
I'm of the former when it comes to Phone/PDA's. It needs to be available to me without having to fart around with it to get it to work.
What leads you to the point Android needs to be hacked to be usable ? Out of the box it works comparable with iPhone in terms of usability. No tweaking, extra setup, it is no different from iPhone. It gives you more options, though, as Google are not such control-freak and don't limit you in ways what you can do with your device. One example...applications are limited to the Market (equal to AppStore), but you can bypass that and install whatever you want to your device. It is as easy to use for BFU and doesn't limit power users the way iPhone does. Win-win to me.
Good luck with that!
Out of curiosity, what is it that the iphone does not, that draws you to purchase an inferior product with limited software?
Are you sure your post is based on facts ? There is plenty of stuff that is impossible on iPhone but can be done on Android, such as multitasking, offline notifications, system-wide events, better search, better messaging. iPhone interface is more "polished" but I wouldn't call Android an inferior product nor it software limited, because in many ways, it is just opposite.
[Android] gives you more options, though, as Google are not such control-freak and don't limit you in ways what you can do with your device.
... Developers have already pointed out that you can't remove Google's applications, and that you MUST use their "cloud" back-up services, and that they use your data. Also, you're served up with Ads all the time. ...
I don't know, seems kind of controlling and limiting to me.
I don't know, seems kind of controlling and limiting to me.
I don't think the citation you provided is true. You can replace pretty much everything in the system, there is no need to use any built in features or cloud services. Sounds like FUD to me.
On the other hand it is fact that you only can legally install on iPhone what is in AppStore and that Apple won't permit certain applications. You don't have access to various parts of the system limiting what you can do with the device. Multitasking, notification, inter-application communication, all that is pretty limited on the iPhone. If it is ok for you fine, but please let other people make their decisions on their priorities.
It was pointed out in an article that it's strange that a company would think they had to use "Do no evil" as their motto. But they have done, haven't they?
People who are moving to Android because they think, somehow, that the phone is
"open" are wrong. Developers have already pointed out that you can't remove Google's applications, and that you MUST use their "cloud" back-up services, and that they use your data. Also, you're served up with Ads all the time.
Nothing is perfect. And I don't expect the iPhone to be perfect, and I don't expect Android phones to be perfect.
But this openness thing is silly.
Will we see a greater range of apps on Android? Not likely. Will we see more hardware compatible with it? Not likely.
The whole point for Google is to get these people using Google's software, so they can spread Ads throughout, and sell the data the users are sending to Google all the time.
If they don't make enough money doing that, what will happen to development? After all, they make no money on the product itself. It has to come from somewhere.
The entire project is more like Win Mobile than the iPhone.
This entire post is rubbish. Haven't seen that "served up with Ads all the time" on my Android yet. Definitely it is more open than iPhone.
... but please let other people make their decisions on their priorities.
Don't you mean on your priorities?