“Apple Inc. and Google Inc. have brought mobile giants Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. to their knees and captured more than 80% of the world’s smartphone market. Now they are going after the rest,” Jessica E. Vascellaro and Amir Efrati report for The Wall Street Journal.
“Apple is marching into new markets—most recently U.S. prepaid mobile phones—to continue the growth of its iPhone and iPad devices and iOS software,” Vascellaro and Efrati report. “Google is partly adopting Apple’s integrated model by manufacturing some devices on its own and it plans to sell several devices directly with big marketing campaigns.”
“Google, which gives away its Android software to device makers, doesn’t make much money from the devices, even though it comes preloaded with Google’s search engine and other services, analysts say. Its free software also has spawned devices with hundreds of different screen sizes and versions. Many Android devices are powered by older versions of the software, making it a challenge for apps to work well across them,” Vascellaro and Efrati report. “Google is moving to address such issues: Its $12.5 billion acquisition of handset maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. takes it directly into hardware. Google also opened an online store to sell future Android devices, and is expected to spend heavily to promote the gadgets.”
Vascellaro and Efrati report, “In coming weeks, Google is expected to unveil a lower-priced Android tablet that it developed with Asustek Computer Inc. to dent the market share of Apple’s iPad, people familiar with the matter have said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple is moving like a tremendous machine! Have fun trying to catch Secretariat at The Belmont, assorted Shams.
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LOL!!!!
The fact that ASUSTEK is making it says a lot about Motogoog. That they are on their way to joingin RIMM and NOK in irrelevance. Where are the ASUSTECk and gOOG sweatshops and how much capacity do they have. Appple lawyeers ready to pounce.
The iPad is alive and kickin
See the current Joy of Tech (link on the left of this page) for their take on kickin’.
In short, it ain’t gonna happen.
(permalink http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1704.html)
Or on this side of the Pond Frankel the best horse in the World.
Or our guest for Oz for that matter Black Caviar the fastest filly in the World.
They can throw billions at this problem and still come up short. “Those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. ..”
You know it’s funny. Every time I try to think of something that could compete with the iPad in my head, it comes out 7″ iPad.
*Yawn* How many times has Google released iOS devices killers now?
So suddenly, they are going to get the tablet right? If it still has Android, then it won’t stand a chance.
Oh *Yawn* of *Yawns*.
Been there,
done that,
laughed at it,
went nowhere.
Rinse and repeat.
Wake me up when a REAL competitor arrives on the scene.
zzz
The difference between iOS and Android running smart phone vs the same running a tablet, from strictly a market share point of view: No carrier subsidies.
This is one major reason why Android has acquired so much market share running on phones, but has failed to gain traction on tablets. You still can’t get a free, or nearly free tablet.
And when you can’t virtually give the hardware away, you can’t possibly compete with Apple.
Then there was the interval where the iPhone was only on AT&T (In the US). Android took off on the other carriers. As we’ve seen, that headstart has lost its advantage as the other carriers have gotten the iPhone and it has surpassed their Android sales.
Here is how to make an iPad killer: buy as much iPads as you can, Google, and sell for half the price. In no time you will sell trillions of them. Any other way is impossible. This advise was for free, Google. Good luck.
what a beautiful visual analogy, MDN…lol, the goddamn rest of the field isn’t even in the fscking picture at the finish line. iPad, like Secretariat in ’73, runs alone.
I find the continued use of the word “killer” ridiculous. I don’t waste time getting offended or upset, but it’s really dumb.
That’s a killer comment!
Say what? Google bought their own hardware maker but they’re outsourcing their tablet to Asustek? Huh? I guess that means Moto can’t compete.
I know that this is off topic – but please bear with me… Thank you in advance
AppleInsider continues to censor a simple poll taker
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Dear friends in the Apple community – THIS IS ABOUT CHOICE!
I have been an Apple enthusiast for decades, learned to program on a IIe and have used Macs since 1984.
I have been trying to get a poll of those who would like to save various features in Mobile Me that will be lost very soon. Yesterday in the first 15 minutes after I commented in an AI forum, 42 AI users viewed my page and (statistically) about 15 voted. Pretty good show of interest think. (A typical post is below)
Unfortunately, AI some how was threatened by this and denied YOU the reader the opportunity to decide for yourself by repeatedly censoring my post so no one else could see it. In spite of censoring, 117 AI users have visited my POLL in the last week.
This is not self promotion. I get nothing from this. In fact I have spent many hours trying to do this for the Apple community. Therefore it is a bitter surprise that I get treated in this way.
MacDailyNews, Seeking Alpha, NY Times, Motley Fool, have all allowed my posts. I have asked them all to feature my little poll. none have, but at least these have not censored me. I try to be a “good citizen” and not post more than once (occasionally 2x) in a given day in any blog. That is – I try not to be a spammer. But this is the only way I know of to get this out.
PLEASE – email AI and ask them to run a feature on my little poll so that more people in the Apple community will have the choice to participate if they see fit. Let the individuals decide for themselves.
Many Thanks! – jmmx
=========== post
My apologies for being off topic in this, but time is running out and I know more people are interested in this as several hundred have visited and a good proportion have voted. So please bear with me as I believe this is of interest to many in the Apple community.
Thank you for your patience.
Unfortunately, when MobileMe gets shuttered in 2 weeks some basic functionality will be lost. However, there is a movement to save some of the soon-to-be-lost features. Check out this link. Just vote in the poll to register your vote.
— http://wp.me/p2dvdV-8/
Thank you.
AND THANK YOU MDN FOR BEING SO TOLERANT!
BTW – they immediately pulled that post (surprise?)
Great Analogy video MDN! Basically sums it up.
Maybe they’ll call it the GooGoo Pad.
… Or the PooPoo Platter.
THIS IS WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Google for feeding the Apple’s hate and potential to destroy you with pleasure.
iPad will rise to 70% and Google/Amazon/Samsung/MS/OEMs can fight over the rest.