Sigh. iPhone sales are not "stagnating." They've slowed in North America, as one might expect this close to a major refresh. Worldwide they're skyrocketing. You guys sure are committed to that particular meme, though. Wonder why?
And an endless procession of OMG! AWESOME! Android phones, each almost indistinguishable from the rest save the kind of spec bumps the average buyer actually could care less about are more likely to dilute the brand than maintain hype
It's pretty clear who the market leader is when the 4th carrier in a country that has had the iPhone for 3 years(?) with the current model halfway through its update cycle completely trounces a new "open" phone that is so super-duper better on a spec sheet that the crappy 3GS. Oh yeah, it's also much cheaper, as pointed out to me yesterday.
Excluding the strikes against the handset for 3 other carriers selling the 3GS since June 2009 and deficient technology (laff) in the 3GS, the Nexus One was still released to a country 5x larger population than the UK and still had had poor sales.
Vodafone, the fourth carrier in the UK to get the iPhone, had an impressive first day of sales, unloading more than 50,000 iPhones on Thursday alone, according to The Independent. To put that in perspective, Vodafone sold 30,000 more iPhones in a single day than Google sold Nexus Ones in a full week.
In fact, the only an Android-based handset can even look decent against against the iPhone is to use the impressive numbers from the original iPhone with an odd 74 day measure. Yet, as the graph shows, it's impossible to make the Nexus One's sales look decent.
I have all but the Blackberry Storm used in these tests. I've tried, now using the same software, and can't reproduce MOTO's results in the slightest.
All the phones draw straight lines with no problems.
When the first claims were made I tested then and I tested again now that I have more phones and a list of the software used. Same results - all the phones draw straight lines and more importantly - the results don't match the test displays at all.
Regardless of this, the science is simply poor.
There are no multiple devices tested to provide a statistical sample on the same platform.
Different OSs with different screen drivers used (of course).
Vastly different hardware configurations.
Different drawing software used.
Despite the use of a robot, since the screens have different sizes, even automated drawing would be readjusted per machine.
Ultimately, these aren't monitors running from a baseline platform. They're complete devices with no actual points of commonality except in generalities. To attempt this sort of comparison was flawed to begin with and the fact that the results aren't even reproducible elsewhere makes this a silly exercise.
Finally - are there issues with screens on the phones? Yes. But not the issues presented. Droids, and other capacitance-based soft-button Android phones, have occasional issues with registering a button touch. Nexus Ones have issues with multi-touch of three points or more. And, sit down for this one, iPhones have a documented issue with half their screens ceasing to register touch at all and requiring replacement.
I have all but the Blackberry Storm used in these tests. I've tried, now using the same software, and can't reproduce MOTO's results in the slightest.
All the phones draw straight lines with no problems.
When the first claims were made I tested then and I tested again now that I have more phones and a list of the software used. Same results - all the phones draw straight lines and more importantly - the results don't match the test displays at all.
Regardless of this, the science is simply poor.
There are no multiple devices tested to provide a statistical sample on the same platform.
Different OSs with different screen drivers used (of course).
Vastly different hardware configurations.
Different drawing software used.
Despite the use of a robot, since the screens have different sizes, even automated drawing would be readjusted per machine.
Ultimately, these aren't monitors running from a baseline platform. They're complete devices with no actual points of commonality except in generalities. To attempt this sort of comparison was flawed to begin with and the fact that the results aren't even reproducible elsewhere makes this a silly exercise.
Finally - are there issues with screens on the phones? Yes. But not the issues presented. Droids, and other capacitance-based soft-button Android phones, have occasional issues with registering a button touch. Nexus Ones have issues with multi-touch of three points or more. And, sit down for this one, iPhones have a documented issue with half their screens ceasing to register touch at all and requiring replacement.
Nah. there was an article on AnandTech about US Army signing a contract with Microsoft about accepting Windows Vista for desktop platform for next 5 or so years.
Yes, Windows Vista, not 7. Figure that out. Maybe Army likes the idea that Vista will be less exposed with people moving from XP to 7, thus leaving Vista as almost exclusive product for Army. Who knows? Anyway, number was 800,000 desktops - not bad for a single contract.
What folks don't understand is the procurement cycle for DoD is borked when it comes to large volume purchases of technology AND the security testing they want takes a while to finish. WinXP didn't get EAL4 certification until 2005. Snow Leopard is EAL3. MS has been working toward EAL4 for Vista and I'm guessin' they're finally close now.
About the only thing you can depend on that DISA will do is to standardize on technology that is already outdated and that industry has already largely moved on from while abandoning mature technology it has painstakingly finally to get to not suck. Like standardizing on SOAP based SOA where pretty much everyone has already jumped ship to REST based SOA and abandoning CORBA that has finally stopped completely sucking.
I have all but the Blackberry Storm used in these tests. I've tried, now using the same software, and can't reproduce MOTO's results in the slightest.
Explain the process of how you conducted the test or, better yet, post a video on YouTube doing the same test with each phone showing how it's not true. BTW, drawing lines quickly don't count as the sensors can more easily determine two points in succession. The point of the test is to determine touchscreen accuracy, which is why even when no zoomed small links in Safari can be executed with precision.
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And, sit down for this one, iPhones have a documented issue with half their screens ceasing to register touch at all and requiring replacement.
While you're sitting down please post some documented evidence that shows that 50% of every iPhone (and, because they use the exact same touch panel, iPod Touch) sold that are being returned. That is a lot of fault product, several times more units than all the other devices Moto tested put together.
Yes, Android is still not as polished as iPhone OS. However, it does remind me at OSX/Windows situation as observed by Apple fans, with iPhone being about "user experience" while Android catering for economy smartphone shoppers on one side and performance/feature rich shoppers on the other.
Ah yes, the old "today's smartphone market is exactly the same as the global PC market of 20 years ago when nearly everyone ended up standardising on one operating system...... (breath!)..... and history is bound to repeat itself." chestnut.
Why do you guys keep coming up with this stuff!
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but I have gut feeling .....
Great. I knew there must be a good reason.
Is that the same "gut feeling" that gave us year after year of iPod killers? Or is it the one that gave us the standardised "plays for sure" platform? Perhaps it's the "gut feeling" that told us that Vista would put a stop to Mac market share gains... or no phone could be successful without a real keyboard.
For nearly a decade I have been reading the words of forum geeks, tech bloggers, journos and pundits.... all telling me... "What's going to happen next." I think you're right Nikon. "Gut feeling" is so much better than objective reasoning or real market knowledge or .... you know.... facts.
So, with respect, I call it BS. Gut feeling is the refuge of those who are just (ever so patiently ) waiting for Apple to fail.
Android market is developing at speed of light, so many new models appearing each year and competing with each other, trying to be better then the one before them... such chaotic environment, while not the best from manufacturers' point of view (as they are forced to keep pushing development all the time and cannot milk one solution for too long) does force technology progress at much more accelerated rate.
This is the iPhone adoption rate from october of last year.
The droid and nexus one may have sold 1.4M vs 1M iphone 2g in the first 74 days but the iPhone slope didn't ramp until the 3G sold and angled upwards again with the 3GS.
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Think of where Android phones were in 2007 and where they are now, and think of where iPhone was in 2007 and where it is now; Android went from non-existence to some of most advanced smart phones on the market, and they have just started, while iPhone hasn't really changed that much at all. Here's hope that iPhone 4 will be significantly improved, but somehow I doubt that.
And the iPhone went from non-existence to the most advanced smart phone on the market.
If you seriously think that the iPhone hasn't changed much from the 2G to the 3GS I think you're pretty unobservant. There's been a major OS revision that completely changed the game (you, know that thing called the App Store) and the hardware has greatly improved each step.
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If Android continues to improve at current rate - and they seem to have momentum
If Android continues to improve at the current rate it loses. Beating the 2G sales is nice...although lets be honest. The 2G was damned expensive. The 3GS sold 1.6M in the first week...not in 74 days. And amazingly the iPhone became Japan's best selling smartphone in 2009 with 46% share and the iPhone doubled it's market share in 2009.
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- I don't think anyone will be able to follow them, not Apple, not Microsoft, not RIM.
Given they still need to accelerate to match Apple it's easy to say that the folks doing the following isn't Apple.
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With so many good phone hardware manufacturers having knowledge, experience and technology to create great devices, all that was required was good enough software platform, and it is just possible Google has provided exactly that.
Possible. I like Android but there are still some rough edges. The iPhone had them too but I view Apple as far more anal than Google about user experience. And far more skilled.
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I don't have doubts that RIM will keep nice share of business users, iPhone will retain enough loyals and people more concerned about smooth experience then with performance and features, while MS might find it's place with good integration on Exchange, Office, SharePoint levels... but if I'd have to bet on single platform to dominate in the next 5 years, I'd say Android has the best chances.
For everyone else, it may be a race to nowhere. The longer the iPhone stays a step ahead, the more entrenched they will be. At some point it doesn't matter if the iPhone is technologically the same as the rest because it will have the largest user base and most software. People will rely on it's solutions and be unwilling to switch (even if it falls a step behind in hardware). The iPhone originally beat everyone else with hardware superiority. Now they beat them with market share and solutions. I think that they will find it more difficult to compete with that. Apple may not be years ahead in hardware anymore, but they certainly are in creating an ecosystem. This reminds me of age of empires. When you build an empire large enough and efficient enough it doesn't matter what age your in, everyone else loses.
Your temper is obviously off scale, leading you to spew useless remarks. If you wanted to contrast the techniques, you should have done so to begin with and limited your remarks to that.
Nah. there was an article on AnandTech about US Army signing a contract with Microsoft about accepting Windows Vista for desktop platform for next 5 or so years.
Yes, Windows Vista, not 7. Figure that out. Maybe Army likes the idea that Vista will be less exposed with people moving from XP to 7, thus leaving Vista as almost exclusive product for Army. Who knows? Anyway, number was 800,000 desktops - not bad for a single contract.
Just like most corporations, the military lags in adopting new OS versions. It adopted Vista in 2009 because it takes about two years to test and make the decision to deploy.
800K is a subset of the number of office computers in the Army. The Army is actually the most likely of the services to veer from the military IT standards and use Macs.
Conquest? Last time I've checked here at AI it was stagnation. Apple was deep in trenches, no more blitzkrieg. Maybe 4 will move them forward. I don't, however, think that iPhone can move forward as quick as Android - which is the main problem the way I see it. They've just lost their momentum. 3 years of minor updates (which is not much different from what Apple does with their PCs) didn't help much. iPhone is still good device (not so good phone) but technological marvel it ain't no more. A friend of mine - who is one of those gadget lovers - just dumped his 3G and got Nexus One... first Android among my friends. I'm still happy with my 3Gs, but when replacement time comes... we'll see.
Android has grown, but it's rate of growth has been slower than iPhone, whether we use units sold or smartphone market share. Just overlay the numbers with iPhone starting in 3Q07 and Android starting in 4Q08. One year after launch, in 4Q09 (Christmas quarter when most phones are sold and Droid launch quarter), Canalys estimates about 4m Android phones sold or about 7.7% of smartphone market. One year after launch, in 3Q08 (not Christmas quarter but iPhone 3G launch quarter), Canalys estimates 6.9m iPhones sold or about 16.6% of smartphone market.
As for iPhone sales stagnation and loss of momentum, Apple shipped 8.7m in 4Q09 compared to 4.4m in 4Q08. That's almost a 100% increase. For this current quarter, analysts are moving projections upward to 7 or 7.5m; compared to 3.8m during Q1 2009, it's almost another 100% increase. Not sure I'd call that stagnation.
As for iPhone updates, how can the App Store, Exchange support, increased responsiveness (partially due to much faster hardware), and longer battery life be considered minor updates? The App Store by itself has added huge amounts of functionality to the iPhone. In 13 months, the Android market just made it to 30K apps. Within 1 year, the App Store already had over 65K apps and 1.5B downloads. (And likely 200K apps and 5B downloads by its 2nd birthday.)
Gadget lovers just love the specs that the other handset makers love to toss around, regardless of whether it makes a real difference in user experience. Some Android phones have 1GHz processors and 5MP cameras, but still reviewers say that iPhone 3Gs is more responsive, and its camera takes better pictures (except when flash is needed). The iPhone was never intended to be a tech marvel, it was intended to be the best phone, iPod, and Internet communicator one would want to use. Even at launch in 2007, it lagged the Nokia N95 in megapixels, 3G, MMS, etc.
I have all but the Blackberry Storm used in these tests. I've tried, now using the same software, and can't reproduce MOTO's results in the slightest.
All the phones draw straight lines with no problems.
When the first claims were made I tested then and I tested again now that I have more phones and a list of the software used. Same results - all the phones draw straight lines and more importantly - the results don't match the test displays at all.
Regardless of this, the science is simply poor.
There are no multiple devices tested to provide a statistical sample on the same platform.
Different OSs with different screen drivers used (of course).
Vastly different hardware configurations.
Different drawing software used.
Despite the use of a robot, since the screens have different sizes, even automated drawing would be readjusted per machine.
Ultimately, these aren't monitors running from a baseline platform. They're complete devices with no actual points of commonality except in generalities. To attempt this sort of comparison was flawed to begin with and the fact that the results aren't even reproducible elsewhere makes this a silly exercise.
Finally - are there issues with screens on the phones? Yes. But not the issues presented. Droids, and other capacitance-based soft-button Android phones, have occasional issues with registering a button touch. Nexus Ones have issues with multi-touch of three points or more. And, sit down for this one, iPhones have a documented issue with half their screens ceasing to register touch at all and requiring replacement.
Kermit Woodall
Managing Editor
GadgetNutz.com
We just have your word for this. You would have to show some proof which would include some undoctored pictures of each phone, using software that allows the blank screen with drawn lines. Otherwise, what you're saying is just an offhand comment without any weight.
There's little doubt that the iPhone's screen is easier to get a correct location tapped. I've tried to tap links on sites where the links were very small and with other links in the same area. Using my 3G, a Palm Pre, and over time, a couple of other phones, the links were properly accessed most of the time, whereas with the other phones, most of the time they were not. This could be one of the reasons. Reviews often point out that the screens from other phones aren't as sensitive, or aren't as accurate. Again, this could be one of the reasons.
Two, even if the iPhone wasn?t superior in this analysis to me it?s about integration with a Mac. Can Droid users integrate their phones with Macs as easily as I could with an iPhone and a Mac?
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You should learn to read more carefully.
Looks like you omitted something: useful content.
Sigh. iPhone sales are not "stagnating." They've slowed in North America, as one might expect this close to a major refresh. Worldwide they're skyrocketing. You guys sure are committed to that particular meme, though. Wonder why?
And an endless procession of OMG! AWESOME! Android phones, each almost indistinguishable from the rest save the kind of spec bumps the average buyer actually could care less about are more likely to dilute the brand than maintain hype
It's pretty clear who the market leader is when the 4th carrier in a country that has had the iPhone for 3 years(?) with the current model halfway through its update cycle completely trounces a new "open" phone that is so super-duper better on a spec sheet that the crappy 3GS. Oh yeah, it's also much cheaper, as pointed out to me yesterday.
Excluding the strikes against the handset for 3 other carriers selling the 3GS since June 2009 and deficient technology (laff) in the 3GS, the Nexus One was still released to a country 5x larger population than the UK and still had had poor sales. In fact, the only an Android-based handset can even look decent against against the iPhone is to use the impressive numbers from the original iPhone with an odd 74 day measure. Yet, as the graph shows, it's impossible to make the Nexus One's sales look decent.
All the phones draw straight lines with no problems.
When the first claims were made I tested then and I tested again now that I have more phones and a list of the software used. Same results - all the phones draw straight lines and more importantly - the results don't match the test displays at all.
Regardless of this, the science is simply poor.
There are no multiple devices tested to provide a statistical sample on the same platform.
Different OSs with different screen drivers used (of course).
Vastly different hardware configurations.
Different drawing software used.
Despite the use of a robot, since the screens have different sizes, even automated drawing would be readjusted per machine.
Ultimately, these aren't monitors running from a baseline platform. They're complete devices with no actual points of commonality except in generalities. To attempt this sort of comparison was flawed to begin with and the fact that the results aren't even reproducible elsewhere makes this a silly exercise.
Finally - are there issues with screens on the phones? Yes. But not the issues presented. Droids, and other capacitance-based soft-button Android phones, have occasional issues with registering a button touch. Nexus Ones have issues with multi-touch of three points or more. And, sit down for this one, iPhones have a documented issue with half their screens ceasing to register touch at all and requiring replacement.
Kermit Woodall
Managing Editor
GadgetNutz.com
iPhone vs. Droid comparison chart
I have all but the Blackberry Storm used in these tests. I've tried, now using the same software, and can't reproduce MOTO's results in the slightest.
All the phones draw straight lines with no problems.
When the first claims were made I tested then and I tested again now that I have more phones and a list of the software used. Same results - all the phones draw straight lines and more importantly - the results don't match the test displays at all.
Regardless of this, the science is simply poor.
There are no multiple devices tested to provide a statistical sample on the same platform.
Different OSs with different screen drivers used (of course).
Vastly different hardware configurations.
Different drawing software used.
Despite the use of a robot, since the screens have different sizes, even automated drawing would be readjusted per machine.
Ultimately, these aren't monitors running from a baseline platform. They're complete devices with no actual points of commonality except in generalities. To attempt this sort of comparison was flawed to begin with and the fact that the results aren't even reproducible elsewhere makes this a silly exercise.
Finally - are there issues with screens on the phones? Yes. But not the issues presented. Droids, and other capacitance-based soft-button Android phones, have occasional issues with registering a button touch. Nexus Ones have issues with multi-touch of three points or more. And, sit down for this one, iPhones have a documented issue with half their screens ceasing to register touch at all and requiring replacement.
Kermit Woodall
Managing Editor
GadgetNutz.com
The previous test showed similar results.
Nah. there was an article on AnandTech about US Army signing a contract with Microsoft about accepting Windows Vista for desktop platform for next 5 or so years.
Yes, Windows Vista, not 7. Figure that out. Maybe Army likes the idea that Vista will be less exposed with people moving from XP to 7, thus leaving Vista as almost exclusive product for Army. Who knows? Anyway, number was 800,000 desktops - not bad for a single contract.
What folks don't understand is the procurement cycle for DoD is borked when it comes to large volume purchases of technology AND the security testing they want takes a while to finish. WinXP didn't get EAL4 certification until 2005. Snow Leopard is EAL3. MS has been working toward EAL4 for Vista and I'm guessin' they're finally close now.
About the only thing you can depend on that DISA will do is to standardize on technology that is already outdated and that industry has already largely moved on from while abandoning mature technology it has painstakingly finally to get to not suck. Like standardizing on SOAP based SOA where pretty much everyone has already jumped ship to REST based SOA and abandoning CORBA that has finally stopped completely sucking.
Looks like you omitted something: useful content.
You also need to learn to think, obviously.
Robot. Human finger.
You figure it out. If your brain won't explode.
I have all but the Blackberry Storm used in these tests. I've tried, now using the same software, and can't reproduce MOTO's results in the slightest.
Explain the process of how you conducted the test or, better yet, post a video on YouTube doing the same test with each phone showing how it's not true. BTW, drawing lines quickly don't count as the sensors can more easily determine two points in succession. The point of the test is to determine touchscreen accuracy, which is why even when no zoomed small links in Safari can be executed with precision.
And, sit down for this one, iPhones have a documented issue with half their screens ceasing to register touch at all and requiring replacement.
While you're sitting down please post some documented evidence that shows that 50% of every iPhone (and, because they use the exact same touch panel, iPod Touch) sold that are being returned. That is a lot of fault product, several times more units than all the other devices Moto tested put together.
Yes, Android is still not as polished as iPhone OS. However, it does remind me at OSX/Windows situation as observed by Apple fans, with iPhone being about "user experience" while Android catering for economy smartphone shoppers on one side and performance/feature rich shoppers on the other.
Ah yes, the old "today's smartphone market is exactly the same as the global PC market of 20 years ago when nearly everyone ended up standardising on one operating system...... (breath!)..... and history is bound to repeat itself." chestnut.
Why do you guys keep coming up with this stuff!
but I have gut feeling .....
Great. I knew there must be a good reason.
Is that the same "gut feeling" that gave us year after year of iPod killers? Or is it the one that gave us the standardised "plays for sure" platform? Perhaps it's the "gut feeling" that told us that Vista would put a stop to Mac market share gains... or no phone could be successful without a real keyboard.
For nearly a decade I have been reading the words of forum geeks, tech bloggers, journos and pundits.... all telling me... "What's going to happen next." I think you're right Nikon. "Gut feeling" is so much better than objective reasoning or real market knowledge or .... you know.... facts.
So, with respect, I call it BS. Gut feeling is the refuge of those who are just (ever so patiently
Android market is developing at speed of light, so many new models appearing each year and competing with each other, trying to be better then the one before them... such chaotic environment, while not the best from manufacturers' point of view (as they are forced to keep pushing development all the time and cannot milk one solution for too long) does force technology progress at much more accelerated rate.
This is the iPhone adoption rate from october of last year.
The droid and nexus one may have sold 1.4M vs 1M iphone 2g in the first 74 days but the iPhone slope didn't ramp until the 3G sold and angled upwards again with the 3GS.
Think of where Android phones were in 2007 and where they are now, and think of where iPhone was in 2007 and where it is now; Android went from non-existence to some of most advanced smart phones on the market, and they have just started, while iPhone hasn't really changed that much at all. Here's hope that iPhone 4 will be significantly improved, but somehow I doubt that.
And the iPhone went from non-existence to the most advanced smart phone on the market.
If you seriously think that the iPhone hasn't changed much from the 2G to the 3GS I think you're pretty unobservant. There's been a major OS revision that completely changed the game (you, know that thing called the App Store) and the hardware has greatly improved each step.
If Android continues to improve at current rate - and they seem to have momentum
If Android continues to improve at the current rate it loses. Beating the 2G sales is nice...although lets be honest. The 2G was damned expensive. The 3GS sold 1.6M in the first week...not in 74 days. And amazingly the iPhone became Japan's best selling smartphone in 2009 with 46% share and the iPhone doubled it's market share in 2009.
- I don't think anyone will be able to follow them, not Apple, not Microsoft, not RIM.
Given they still need to accelerate to match Apple it's easy to say that the folks doing the following isn't Apple.
With so many good phone hardware manufacturers having knowledge, experience and technology to create great devices, all that was required was good enough software platform, and it is just possible Google has provided exactly that.
Possible. I like Android but there are still some rough edges. The iPhone had them too but I view Apple as far more anal than Google about user experience. And far more skilled.
I don't have doubts that RIM will keep nice share of business users, iPhone will retain enough loyals and people more concerned about smooth experience then with performance and features, while MS might find it's place with good integration on Exchange, Office, SharePoint levels... but if I'd have to bet on single platform to dominate in the next 5 years, I'd say Android has the best chances.
I'll take that bet.
I have all but the Blackberry Storm used in these tests. I've tried, now using the same software, and can't reproduce MOTO's results in the slightest.
Something tells me you're not doing it right.
There's a methodology.
That's how science works.
50% btw? Got any other stats up there? Can't be comfortable.
You also need to learn to think, obviously.
Robot. Human finger.
You figure it out. If your brain won't explode.
Your temper is obviously off scale, leading you to spew useless remarks. If you wanted to contrast the techniques, you should have done so to begin with and limited your remarks to that.
Nah. there was an article on AnandTech about US Army signing a contract with Microsoft about accepting Windows Vista for desktop platform for next 5 or so years.
Yes, Windows Vista, not 7. Figure that out. Maybe Army likes the idea that Vista will be less exposed with people moving from XP to 7, thus leaving Vista as almost exclusive product for Army. Who knows? Anyway, number was 800,000 desktops - not bad for a single contract.
Just like most corporations, the military lags in adopting new OS versions. It adopted Vista in 2009 because it takes about two years to test and make the decision to deploy.
800K is a subset of the number of office computers in the Army. The Army is actually the most likely of the services to veer from the military IT standards and use Macs.
Conquest? Last time I've checked here at AI it was stagnation. Apple was deep in trenches, no more blitzkrieg. Maybe 4 will move them forward. I don't, however, think that iPhone can move forward as quick as Android - which is the main problem the way I see it. They've just lost their momentum. 3 years of minor updates (which is not much different from what Apple does with their PCs) didn't help much. iPhone is still good device (not so good phone) but technological marvel it ain't no more. A friend of mine - who is one of those gadget lovers - just dumped his 3G and got Nexus One... first Android among my friends. I'm still happy with my 3Gs, but when replacement time comes... we'll see.
Android has grown, but it's rate of growth has been slower than iPhone, whether we use units sold or smartphone market share. Just overlay the numbers with iPhone starting in 3Q07 and Android starting in 4Q08. One year after launch, in 4Q09 (Christmas quarter when most phones are sold and Droid launch quarter), Canalys estimates about 4m Android phones sold or about 7.7% of smartphone market. One year after launch, in 3Q08 (not Christmas quarter but iPhone 3G launch quarter), Canalys estimates 6.9m iPhones sold or about 16.6% of smartphone market.
As for iPhone sales stagnation and loss of momentum, Apple shipped 8.7m in 4Q09 compared to 4.4m in 4Q08. That's almost a 100% increase. For this current quarter, analysts are moving projections upward to 7 or 7.5m; compared to 3.8m during Q1 2009, it's almost another 100% increase. Not sure I'd call that stagnation.
As for iPhone updates, how can the App Store, Exchange support, increased responsiveness (partially due to much faster hardware), and longer battery life be considered minor updates? The App Store by itself has added huge amounts of functionality to the iPhone. In 13 months, the Android market just made it to 30K apps. Within 1 year, the App Store already had over 65K apps and 1.5B downloads. (And likely 200K apps and 5B downloads by its 2nd birthday.)
Gadget lovers just love the specs that the other handset makers love to toss around, regardless of whether it makes a real difference in user experience. Some Android phones have 1GHz processors and 5MP cameras, but still reviewers say that iPhone 3Gs is more responsive, and its camera takes better pictures (except when flash is needed). The iPhone was never intended to be a tech marvel, it was intended to be the best phone, iPod, and Internet communicator one would want to use. Even at launch in 2007, it lagged the Nokia N95 in megapixels, 3G, MMS, etc.
I have all but the Blackberry Storm used in these tests. I've tried, now using the same software, and can't reproduce MOTO's results in the slightest.
All the phones draw straight lines with no problems.
When the first claims were made I tested then and I tested again now that I have more phones and a list of the software used. Same results - all the phones draw straight lines and more importantly - the results don't match the test displays at all.
Regardless of this, the science is simply poor.
There are no multiple devices tested to provide a statistical sample on the same platform.
Different OSs with different screen drivers used (of course).
Vastly different hardware configurations.
Different drawing software used.
Despite the use of a robot, since the screens have different sizes, even automated drawing would be readjusted per machine.
Ultimately, these aren't monitors running from a baseline platform. They're complete devices with no actual points of commonality except in generalities. To attempt this sort of comparison was flawed to begin with and the fact that the results aren't even reproducible elsewhere makes this a silly exercise.
Finally - are there issues with screens on the phones? Yes. But not the issues presented. Droids, and other capacitance-based soft-button Android phones, have occasional issues with registering a button touch. Nexus Ones have issues with multi-touch of three points or more. And, sit down for this one, iPhones have a documented issue with half their screens ceasing to register touch at all and requiring replacement.
Kermit Woodall
Managing Editor
GadgetNutz.com
We just have your word for this. You would have to show some proof which would include some undoctored pictures of each phone, using software that allows the blank screen with drawn lines. Otherwise, what you're saying is just an offhand comment without any weight.
There's little doubt that the iPhone's screen is easier to get a correct location tapped. I've tried to tap links on sites where the links were very small and with other links in the same area. Using my 3G, a Palm Pre, and over time, a couple of other phones, the links were properly accessed most of the time, whereas with the other phones, most of the time they were not. This could be one of the reasons. Reviews often point out that the screens from other phones aren't as sensitive, or aren't as accurate. Again, this could be one of the reasons.
Come back again with some proof, if you have it.
One, where?s the Windows phone?
Two, even if the iPhone wasn?t superior in this analysis to me it?s about integration with a Mac. Can Droid users integrate their phones with Macs as easily as I could with an iPhone and a Mac?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/...-and-hacks.ars