If you guys haven't noticed. There are three reason why Apple will lose,
If you're going to make a claim like that, you really need to define "winning" and "losing". To use an automotive analogy, Apple has a larger share of the PC market than Mercedes, Porsche, and BMW combined have of the auto market, but is anyone saying that those companies are "losing"? Likewise, Bentley produces fewer cars in a year than Honda does during the first shift on a slow Monday, but do you think that fact bothers Bentley?
Apple may never have 80-90% market share in any of its markets, but I don't think that's a prerequisite for "winning". Frankly, I'd be happy to let the rest of the computer makers scramble for the bottom end of the market - there's no profit margin there anyway, and no chance to express the kind of engineering prowess that Apple puts into its machines. They may only have 10% of the overall market, but what's their share of the $1k+ machines, where the real money is being made?
Even though Apple may never dominate their market, they've still got the second or third-highest market cap of any public company in the world. Hell, their cash reserves alone are bigger than the market cap of most companies. And the trend has only been going up - care to explain to us how that's "losing"?
As long as Honeycomb has great full-power, easy-to-use tablet apps that can match the quality of GarageBand, iDraw, SketchBook, Numbers, Keynote, iTeleport, and a few hundred more of the very best, plus a couple thousand really good games to choose from (because we all want choice), who cares if Android tablets have less of the mediocre and poor apps?
So... how do these Honeycomb apps stack up with the best of iPad offerings? Are they ?good enough? in the sense of marking a checklist (?we have an app for that?) or are they truly great?
It already has... someday in the future!
(That, quite literally, is the stance of all nine Android tablet zealots, and the most dedicated Android phone zealots too. The rest of us wait and see and hope for healthier competition to arrive some day. I think it might happen AND I think it could be from Android... but only if some big company takes Android and makes their own unique, incompatible, closed flavor of it, and manages to design it as well as Apple has. A tall order, but time is long!)
If you all just kindly step over to the Android Market.
You will all see there are (using Apple metrics to count apps).
1. 66 Apps optimized for Honeycomb
2. 638 Featured books (that are not free)
3. 470 Free books
These ARE optimized for tablet experience and it totals over 1174 apps (using Apple's version of app definition... (148Appbiz currently reports that Iphone has Books - 56409 active Apps).
So clearly all the iPhone community lives in la la land. But thats alright, keep on doing so. It happened with the G1 and look where we are now. Looking at reality through distorted glasses doesn't change reality, just your perception of it.
Now, unlike Apple. Honeycomb games don't need any recoding to be optimized for a Tablet. So in reality Android tablets can make full use of all submitted Android apps, which by the way this week crossed 300K mark as per AndroidLib metrics, out of which 187K are active. Android adds 30K apps a month growing at 10% rate, while iPhone ecosystem grows under 5% a month and currently has 450K apps).
This year alone, this is another metric that the iOS ecosystem will surrender to Android.
Sorry to bust the bubble and I do realize most of you will rant against this.
Thats not a problem, its just reality.
you r counting each book for the android as a book? the website you mention in your other post (http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/) mentions 56 409 books, but you misunderstood that count. the books is the app category, not how many books there are on the app store. they are not counting each book as a seperate app, they are counting the apps that relate to books...
Steve is just being kind. He knows from experience so understands what it is like to be an underdog so why kick Androidophiles when they are so far behind even if the dog doesn't have a hind leg to stand on. I am sure Droids get their fair share of time in his meditative thoughts. Release anger, hug your enemy and peace shall clear the mind. Something like that.
Yeah I do some light yoga and meditation from time to time, even so sometimes you just want to smash someone's face in... eg. these Android tablet fandroids. And some loser last night showing off his iPad 2 to me, which where I am is selling, if you can get them, for ridiculous prices. He only buys Apple stuff when he knows he can get it ahead of everyone else, hardly buys anything officially released, and obviously he got a white one to make it clear to everyone it's an iPad 2. Grrrr the worse kind if Apple "enthusiast".
I guess Steve might tell me "your holding [the posture] wrong". Yes I am envious and shallow at times.
Am I just reaching here, or is this a M*A*S*H reference?
I think it's actually from "Spaceballs". It's the scene where the characters in the movie find a videotape of the movie itself and begin watching themselves in near-realtime.
Why wouldn?t an Android dev not focus on Android-based tablets if they are the future and they are going to trounce Apple in the redefined category Apple created?
If we go back nearly a ¼ of a year to CES 2011 we see that there was a plethora of Honeycomb-based iPad-killers stating their impending reign in the tablet market. So what happened? Where are they?
PS: I forget who it was on this forum, but they claimed Apple would not be able to get a Cortex-A9-based chip ready for the iPad 2 release this early in the year. I recall them stating Apple simply wouldn?t have the time to use ARM?s reference designs and that their competitors would be overtaking the original iPad long before an iPad with a Cortex-A9 reference could be brought to market. I?m still curious about that concept.
Good one! -- and you you know Apple is working on a Quad-Quad for the next iteration.
Very soon, this bastard device with an "improper OS" is going to be the "go-to" system for apps... if it hasn't already happened.
MSFT better get some apps (Word, Excel, PP) in the game or they will be listed among the "Also Rans".
If you all just kindly step over to the Android Market.
You will all see there are (using Apple metrics to count apps).
1. 66 Apps optimized for Honeycomb
2. 638 Featured books (that are not free)
3. 470 Free books
These ARE optimized for tablet experience and it totals over 1174 apps (using Apple's version of app definition... (148Appbiz currently reports that Iphone has Books - 56409 active Apps).
So clearly all the iPhone community lives in la la land. But thats alright, keep on doing so. It happened with the G1 and look where we are now. Looking at reality through distorted glasses doesn't change reality, just your perception of it.
Now, unlike Apple. Honeycomb games don't need any recoding to be optimized for a Tablet. So in reality Android tablets can make full use of all submitted Android apps, which by the way this week crossed 300K mark as per AndroidLib metrics, out of which 187K are active. Android adds 30K apps a month growing at 10% rate, while iPhone ecosystem grows under 5% a month and currently has 450K apps).
This year alone, this is another metric that the iOS ecosystem will surrender to Android.
Sorry to bust the bubble and I do realize most of you will rant against this.
Thats just it, I think you will sell more apps if you are 1 of 17 and have only a couple 100,000 users that are likely to see your app at around 100% certainty than being 1 of 350,000....but it really depends on the app.
If the only way you'll sell an app is to be 1 out of 17... then maybe your app isn't all that great.
Put your app out there... get it reviewed by websites and blogs... and make sure it's something people actually need. That's how you sell an app.
Developers aren't shying away from iOS because it's too big and they fear they won't get noticed... they go there because it's a huge opportunity.
Which is why I'm saying... no one is hopping on Honeycomb just yet... because there are no customers yet!
What about them? There are plenty of Honeycomb tablets "coming soon"
While Apple is already on their 2nd iPad...
But we have always had Android tablets, the so called "iPad killers" since last year. Those products seemed to have been rushed out too soon to compete with Apple's iPad without knowing the long term intentions for iPad. What did they make out of those tablets despite all the noise made about the openness of the Android platform?
Yes, Apple is already on iPad 2, and I bet they are already projecting beyond iPad 3 to iPad 4. They always plan ahead, and they think their projects through before rushing them out. That is why they have tremendous success with most of their products.
But we have always had Android tablets, the so called "iPad killers" since last year. Yes, Apple is already on iPad 2, and I bet they are already projecting beyond iPad 3 to iPad 4. They always plan ahead, and they think their projects through before rushing them out. That is why they have tremendous success with most of their products.
I agree with you... not sure why you're still trying to convince me.
No one is buying the Xoom... and the other Honeycomb tablets are still nowhere to be seen.
And that's why I said I'd rather make apps for the iPad instead of Honeycomb tablets.
The iPad is an established platform in their 2nd year... while Honeycomb is brand new.
I'm with you, man. Apple is rockin' it right now... they plan ahead and are kicking ass. And the others are rushing to keep up.
If you all just kindly step over to the Android Market.
You will all see there are (using Apple metrics to count apps).
1. 66 Apps optimized for Honeycomb
2. 638 Featured books (that are not free)
3. 470 Free books
These ARE optimized for tablet experience and it totals over 1174 apps (using Apple's version of app definition... (148Appbiz currently reports that Iphone has Books - 56409 active Apps).
So clearly all the iPhone community lives in la la land. But thats alright, keep on doing so. It happened with the G1 and look where we are now. Looking at reality through distorted glasses doesn't change reality, just your perception of it.
Now, unlike Apple. Honeycomb games don't need any recoding to be optimized for a Tablet. So in reality Android tablets can make full use of all submitted Android apps, which by the way this week crossed 300K mark as per AndroidLib metrics, out of which 187K are active. Android adds 30K apps a month growing at 10% rate, while iPhone ecosystem grows under 5% a month and currently has 450K apps).
This year alone, this is another metric that the iOS ecosystem will surrender to Android.
Sorry to bust the bubble and I do realize most of you will rant against this.
Thats not a problem, its just reality.
Now that you have opened your bowels kindly clean up your mess and leave the room.
I posted this in a different (wrong) thread, but this is much more apropos:
It all comes down to what you can do with your device, and how well it does it. Open or closed, most users are going to care about the experience first and the politics second.
Android on phones has done well because most people use their phones as communication devices first. Mobile email, texting, voice, maps, browser and some web enabled services. Makes sense for a device that you keep on your person at all times, and plays to Google's strengths as a web first company.
Tablets are another matter. They bode to be the next big personal computing paradigm. As such, they will be expected to deliver engaging computing experiences, not just scaled up phone type web services. There's no huge advantage to checking your email or texting or getting showtimes on a tablet over a phone, yet Google seems to think that will do.
It's ironic, because the smug dismissal of the iPad early on was always about how it was "just a consumption device." Real computing would happen elsewhere, we were told, so if you were content to lay back and stare at stuff go ahead and enjoy your toy computer.
Flash forward to the arrival of Android tablets. All of a sudden applications don't matter. Widgets matter, OS cruft matters, being able to access web services matter.
Meanwhile, the iPad continues to add robust productivity apps, and the they make whats available for Honeycomb look pathetic. No doubt applications will be added in time, but of what quality? Where are the really serious, carefully engineered full on applications going to come from?
For instance: here is screen shot of the current Honeycomb specific drum machine available form the Android Store:
And here is one of a dozen high end drum apps for the iPad:
Yes, I know, drum machines aren't the be all and end all of computer use, but there are actually so few apps specifically available for Honeycomb at the moment it difficult to find head to head comparisons.
But more generally, the delta is so huge it's almost comical. Outside of replicating what their phone can do, Android tablets seem to offer a computing experience from the mid-90s. If Google can't get their act together pretty soon, all those iPads with all those apps are going to start making a real impression on the general public. A great many people will have seen or used an iPad running some kind of extremely polished, powerful application, and when they go to look at buying a tablet for themselves and see the primitive state of Honeycomb apps, they're not going to be impressed. And the last thing they're going to think is "Yeah, it might not do much, but by God it's open!"
I will be a little more giving to the iFan's. I predict Android apps will pass the iPhone in 2012, not in 2011 Of course sales have already suprassed the iOS phones.
A year from now there will be a dozen good Andriod tablets running Honeycomb + and probably for cheaper than the iPad. Again I predict the iPad will drop to number 2 and do so faster than the iPhone did.
Maybe Dan can spin some shiiiiite on that day for the iFan's so they wont feel so bad?? His drible is the best in the iFan blog world when it comes to the pure waste of electrons.
Like the vile dribble coming from your mouth right ?
And how I predicted Android would over take the iPhone when I was among the first 1000 to have a G1 in their hands.
The same way.. this rofl 'Loser' will be smiling at iOS and its fans.. (that includes you) when Android Tablets overwhelm iPads like Android phones are doing so with the iPhone.
If you guys haven't noticed. There are three reason why Apple will lose, that history has proven time and time again (BetaMax, Mac Computers. IBM Computers, are some Examples).
When a company wants total control it can't compete against an open system. This is a proven fact over time. Yes, they will be relevant for a while, but in the long run both Technology and Marketshare depress their market.
iOS devices have the following going against them:
a) Apple Dictatorship
b) Closed System
c) Too long of a development cycle (one year compared to 4 months for Android Hardwarewise)
d) History
e) Price
And its not the best phone out there. Actually Mobiado carries the BEST phone to date, the ctp002 and its Android.
Since when is 6x negligible? Besides, it helps point out the failure of anyone who buys one of these devices to fully understand what they are getting themselves into. It also points out how grossly inferior the forked strategy of Android is. Plus, their "open source" philosophy of "release early, release often" for their OS screws the overwhelming majority of the owners of these handsets who are immediately stuck with obsolete hardware, running an old inferior version of the OS.
Maybe on the log10 scale? Be it 17, 20 or 66, it's not a significant number of apps. Besides, all figures are less than 100, to give the exact number known at the time might be considered the social equivalent of kicking them when they're down. Less than 100 is still not much compared to thousands of native iPad apps within a month of the first devices' release. It's hard to justify chest-thumping when you compare low two digits with high five digits.
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If you guys haven't noticed. There are three reason why Apple will lose,
If you're going to make a claim like that, you really need to define "winning" and "losing". To use an automotive analogy, Apple has a larger share of the PC market than Mercedes, Porsche, and BMW combined have of the auto market, but is anyone saying that those companies are "losing"? Likewise, Bentley produces fewer cars in a year than Honda does during the first shift on a slow Monday, but do you think that fact bothers Bentley?
Apple may never have 80-90% market share in any of its markets, but I don't think that's a prerequisite for "winning". Frankly, I'd be happy to let the rest of the computer makers scramble for the bottom end of the market - there's no profit margin there anyway, and no chance to express the kind of engineering prowess that Apple puts into its machines. They may only have 10% of the overall market, but what's their share of the $1k+ machines, where the real money is being made?
Even though Apple may never dominate their market, they've still got the second or third-highest market cap of any public company in the world. Hell, their cash reserves alone are bigger than the market cap of most companies. And the trend has only been going up - care to explain to us how that's "losing"?
As long as Honeycomb has great full-power, easy-to-use tablet apps that can match the quality of GarageBand, iDraw, SketchBook, Numbers, Keynote, iTeleport, and a few hundred more of the very best, plus a couple thousand really good games to choose from (because we all want choice), who cares if Android tablets have less of the mediocre and poor apps?
So... how do these Honeycomb apps stack up with the best of iPad offerings? Are they ?good enough? in the sense of marking a checklist (?we have an app for that?) or are they truly great?
It already has... someday in the future!
(That, quite literally, is the stance of all nine Android tablet zealots, and the most dedicated Android phone zealots too. The rest of us wait and see and hope for healthier competition to arrive some day. I think it might happen AND I think it could be from Android... but only if some big company takes Android and makes their own unique, incompatible, closed flavor of it, and manages to design it as well as Apple has. A tall order, but time is long!)
+++ QFT Classic Response!
Within 1 year Oracle will own Android.
... so there you go!
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If you all just kindly step over to the Android Market.
You will all see there are (using Apple metrics to count apps).
1. 66 Apps optimized for Honeycomb
2. 638 Featured books (that are not free)
3. 470 Free books
These ARE optimized for tablet experience and it totals over 1174 apps (using Apple's version of app definition... (148Appbiz currently reports that Iphone has Books - 56409 active Apps).
So clearly all the iPhone community lives in la la land. But thats alright, keep on doing so. It happened with the G1 and look where we are now. Looking at reality through distorted glasses doesn't change reality, just your perception of it.
Now, unlike Apple. Honeycomb games don't need any recoding to be optimized for a Tablet. So in reality Android tablets can make full use of all submitted Android apps, which by the way this week crossed 300K mark as per AndroidLib metrics, out of which 187K are active. Android adds 30K apps a month growing at 10% rate, while iPhone ecosystem grows under 5% a month and currently has 450K apps).
This year alone, this is another metric that the iOS ecosystem will surrender to Android.
Sorry to bust the bubble and I do realize most of you will rant against this.
Thats not a problem, its just reality.
you r counting each book for the android as a book? the website you mention in your other post (http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/) mentions 56 409 books, but you misunderstood that count. the books is the app category, not how many books there are on the app store. they are not counting each book as a seperate app, they are counting the apps that relate to books...
Steve is just being kind. He knows from experience so understands what it is like to be an underdog so why kick Androidophiles when they are so far behind even if the dog doesn't have a hind leg to stand on. I am sure Droids get their fair share of time in his meditative thoughts. Release anger, hug your enemy and peace shall clear the mind. Something like that.
Yeah I do some light yoga and meditation from time to time, even so sometimes you just want to smash someone's face in... eg. these Android tablet fandroids. And some loser last night showing off his iPad 2 to me, which where I am is selling, if you can get them, for ridiculous prices. He only buys Apple stuff when he knows he can get it ahead of everyone else, hardly buys anything officially released, and obviously he got a white one to make it clear to everyone it's an iPad 2. Grrrr the worse kind if Apple "enthusiast".
I guess Steve might tell me "your holding [the posture] wrong". Yes I am envious and shallow at times.
Am I just reaching here, or is this a M*A*S*H reference?
I think it's actually from "Spaceballs". It's the scene where the characters in the movie find a videotape of the movie itself and begin watching themselves in near-realtime.
Why wouldn?t an Android dev not focus on Android-based tablets if they are the future and they are going to trounce Apple in the redefined category Apple created?
If we go back nearly a ¼ of a year to CES 2011 we see that there was a plethora of Honeycomb-based iPad-killers stating their impending reign in the tablet market. So what happened? Where are they?
PS: I forget who it was on this forum, but they claimed Apple would not be able to get a Cortex-A9-based chip ready for the iPad 2 release this early in the year. I recall them stating Apple simply wouldn?t have the time to use ARM?s reference designs and that their competitors would be overtaking the original iPad long before an iPad with a Cortex-A9 reference could be brought to market. I?m still curious about that concept.
Good one! -- and you you know Apple is working on a Quad-Quad for the next iteration.
Very soon, this bastard device with an "improper OS" is going to be the "go-to" system for apps... if it hasn't already happened.
MSFT better get some apps (Word, Excel, PP) in the game or they will be listed among the "Also Rans".
I'm talkin' 2011 man!
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Don't you worry... it's going quite smooth...
Literally trying not to spew my tea all over the breakfast table here...
If you all just kindly step over to the Android Market.
You will all see there are (using Apple metrics to count apps).
1. 66 Apps optimized for Honeycomb
2. 638 Featured books (that are not free)
3. 470 Free books
These ARE optimized for tablet experience and it totals over 1174 apps (using Apple's version of app definition... (148Appbiz currently reports that Iphone has Books - 56409 active Apps).
So clearly all the iPhone community lives in la la land. But thats alright, keep on doing so. It happened with the G1 and look where we are now. Looking at reality through distorted glasses doesn't change reality, just your perception of it.
Now, unlike Apple. Honeycomb games don't need any recoding to be optimized for a Tablet. So in reality Android tablets can make full use of all submitted Android apps, which by the way this week crossed 300K mark as per AndroidLib metrics, out of which 187K are active. Android adds 30K apps a month growing at 10% rate, while iPhone ecosystem grows under 5% a month and currently has 450K apps).
This year alone, this is another metric that the iOS ecosystem will surrender to Android.
Sorry to bust the bubble and I do realize most of you will rant against this.
Thats not a problem, its just reality.
Yeah, sure... where can I buy stock?
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Thats just it, I think you will sell more apps if you are 1 of 17 and have only a couple 100,000 users that are likely to see your app at around 100% certainty than being 1 of 350,000....but it really depends on the app.
If the only way you'll sell an app is to be 1 out of 17... then maybe your app isn't all that great.
Put your app out there... get it reviewed by websites and blogs... and make sure it's something people actually need. That's how you sell an app.
Developers aren't shying away from iOS because it's too big and they fear they won't get noticed... they go there because it's a huge opportunity.
Which is why I'm saying... no one is hopping on Honeycomb just yet... because there are no customers yet!
What about them? There are plenty of Honeycomb tablets "coming soon"
While Apple is already on their 2nd iPad...
But we have always had Android tablets, the so called "iPad killers" since last year. Those products seemed to have been rushed out too soon to compete with Apple's iPad without knowing the long term intentions for iPad. What did they make out of those tablets despite all the noise made about the openness of the Android platform?
Yes, Apple is already on iPad 2, and I bet they are already projecting beyond iPad 3 to iPad 4. They always plan ahead, and they think their projects through before rushing them out. That is why they have tremendous success with most of their products.
This just proves how much Apple lies about everything.
I agree! Bloody Jobs and his RDF, always exaggerating, and damn apple fanbois and their kool-aid!!1!
But we have always had Android tablets, the so called "iPad killers" since last year. Yes, Apple is already on iPad 2, and I bet they are already projecting beyond iPad 3 to iPad 4. They always plan ahead, and they think their projects through before rushing them out. That is why they have tremendous success with most of their products.
I agree with you... not sure why you're still trying to convince me.
No one is buying the Xoom... and the other Honeycomb tablets are still nowhere to be seen.
And that's why I said I'd rather make apps for the iPad instead of Honeycomb tablets.
The iPad is an established platform in their 2nd year... while Honeycomb is brand new.
I'm with you, man. Apple is rockin' it right now... they plan ahead and are kicking ass. And the others are rushing to keep up.
Since when is 6x negligible?
When the "x" was negligible to start with.
- I'll pay you 1 cent for a day's work.
- Forget it!
- OK, I'm giving you six times my initial offer...
- ...
Of course it's possible. If you want the best of both worlds, get an iPad2.
HAHAHAHA!
I teared up a bit, thanks for the laugh.
If you all just kindly step over to the Android Market.
You will all see there are (using Apple metrics to count apps).
1. 66 Apps optimized for Honeycomb
2. 638 Featured books (that are not free)
3. 470 Free books
These ARE optimized for tablet experience and it totals over 1174 apps (using Apple's version of app definition... (148Appbiz currently reports that Iphone has Books - 56409 active Apps).
So clearly all the iPhone community lives in la la land. But thats alright, keep on doing so. It happened with the G1 and look where we are now. Looking at reality through distorted glasses doesn't change reality, just your perception of it.
Now, unlike Apple. Honeycomb games don't need any recoding to be optimized for a Tablet. So in reality Android tablets can make full use of all submitted Android apps, which by the way this week crossed 300K mark as per AndroidLib metrics, out of which 187K are active. Android adds 30K apps a month growing at 10% rate, while iPhone ecosystem grows under 5% a month and currently has 450K apps).
This year alone, this is another metric that the iOS ecosystem will surrender to Android.
Sorry to bust the bubble and I do realize most of you will rant against this.
Thats not a problem, its just reality.
Now that you have opened your bowels kindly clean up your mess and leave the room.
Your reality is in your head.
I posted this in a different (wrong) thread, but this is much more apropos:
It all comes down to what you can do with your device, and how well it does it. Open or closed, most users are going to care about the experience first and the politics second.
Android on phones has done well because most people use their phones as communication devices first. Mobile email, texting, voice, maps, browser and some web enabled services. Makes sense for a device that you keep on your person at all times, and plays to Google's strengths as a web first company.
Tablets are another matter. They bode to be the next big personal computing paradigm. As such, they will be expected to deliver engaging computing experiences, not just scaled up phone type web services. There's no huge advantage to checking your email or texting or getting showtimes on a tablet over a phone, yet Google seems to think that will do.
It's ironic, because the smug dismissal of the iPad early on was always about how it was "just a consumption device." Real computing would happen elsewhere, we were told, so if you were content to lay back and stare at stuff go ahead and enjoy your toy computer.
Flash forward to the arrival of Android tablets. All of a sudden applications don't matter. Widgets matter, OS cruft matters, being able to access web services matter.
Meanwhile, the iPad continues to add robust productivity apps, and the they make whats available for Honeycomb look pathetic. No doubt applications will be added in time, but of what quality? Where are the really serious, carefully engineered full on applications going to come from?
For instance: here is screen shot of the current Honeycomb specific drum machine available form the Android Store:
And here is one of a dozen high end drum apps for the iPad:
Yes, I know, drum machines aren't the be all and end all of computer use, but there are actually so few apps specifically available for Honeycomb at the moment it difficult to find head to head comparisons.
But more generally, the delta is so huge it's almost comical. Outside of replicating what their phone can do, Android tablets seem to offer a computing experience from the mid-90s. If Google can't get their act together pretty soon, all those iPads with all those apps are going to start making a real impression on the general public. A great many people will have seen or used an iPad running some kind of extremely polished, powerful application, and when they go to look at buying a tablet for themselves and see the primitive state of Honeycomb apps, they're not going to be impressed. And the last thing they're going to think is "Yeah, it might not do much, but by God it's open!"
Nice one.
Yes open like an old can of fish.
You'll find this clown's picture in the dictionary, right next to 'Loser'.
Snicker. I thought it would be retard.
I will be a little more giving to the iFan's. I predict Android apps will pass the iPhone in 2012, not in 2011
A year from now there will be a dozen good Andriod tablets running Honeycomb + and probably for cheaper than the iPad. Again I predict the iPad will drop to number 2 and do so faster than the iPhone did.
Maybe Dan can spin some shiiiiite on that day for the iFan's so they wont feel so bad?? His drible is the best in the iFan blog world when it comes to the pure waste of electrons.
Like the vile dribble coming from your mouth right ?
And how I predicted Android would over take the iPhone when I was among the first 1000 to have a G1 in their hands.
The same way.. this rofl 'Loser' will be smiling at iOS and its fans.. (that includes you) when Android Tablets overwhelm iPads like Android phones are doing so with the iPhone.
If you guys haven't noticed. There are three reason why Apple will lose, that history has proven time and time again (BetaMax, Mac Computers. IBM Computers, are some Examples).
When a company wants total control it can't compete against an open system. This is a proven fact over time. Yes, they will be relevant for a while, but in the long run both Technology and Marketshare depress their market.
iOS devices have the following going against them:
a) Apple Dictatorship
b) Closed System
c) Too long of a development cycle (one year compared to 4 months for Android Hardwarewise)
d) History
e) Price
And its not the best phone out there. Actually Mobiado carries the BEST phone to date, the ctp002 and its Android.
http://tech2.in.com/news/mobile-phon...android/209582
Give it another three years and Ill be back to smile on you guys like I have done so with the G1.
silly person, let me refute your pathetic claims:
1) Dictatorship, what dictatorship, maybe in your small mind
Big business is just that, same with the others
2) What exactly is closed, just like carriers not giving updates to customers
Android 3.0 being shut off from developers
Google scanning person emails and feed ads to you (immoral and probably illegal)
3, Hardware refresh too long, just your opinion which counts for nought, zero, nil, nothing
4) History, Roman history which one
5) Price, now you are even sillier, iPad 1 & 2 are cheap compared to the competitors
Samsung 7 incher is more expensive than the iPad, the exhume even more so.
Had enough ?
Just another fandroid/Apple hater sigh ...
Since when is 6x negligible? Besides, it helps point out the failure of anyone who buys one of these devices to fully understand what they are getting themselves into. It also points out how grossly inferior the forked strategy of Android is. Plus, their "open source" philosophy of "release early, release often" for their OS screws the overwhelming majority of the owners of these handsets who are immediately stuck with obsolete hardware, running an old inferior version of the OS.
Maybe on the log10 scale? Be it 17, 20 or 66, it's not a significant number of apps. Besides, all figures are less than 100, to give the exact number known at the time might be considered the social equivalent of kicking them when they're down. Less than 100 is still not much compared to thousands of native iPad apps within a month of the first devices' release. It's hard to justify chest-thumping when you compare low two digits with high five digits.