“That’s about 17% the number of iPhones — 1.75 million — that Morgan Stanley estimates Apple and AT&T sold in the U.S. last quarter,” Frommer reports. “In other words, almost six iPhones for each Android phone.”
Frommer reminds, “Google’s long-term success doesn’t rely on Android: Google’s long-term interest is mostly to get more people using the mobile Web on their phones (and other non-PC devices) so they could see (and click on) more Google-brokered ads. Ad clicks are just as valuable on iPhones as Google phones.”
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MacDailyNews Note: Back in mid-January 2008, The New York Times’ John Markoff reported that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was “skeptical about Google’s decision to develop smartphone software. ‘Having created a phone its a lot harder than it looks,’ he said. ‘We’ll see how good their software is and we’ll see how consumers like it and how quickly it is adopted. I actually think Google has achieved their goal [of seeking not to get locked out of the mobile phone world] without Android, and I now think Android hurts them more than it helps them. It’s just going to divide them and people who want to be their partners.'”