MacDailyNews Take: Yes, Scott has more hair than sense, but many MacDailyNews readers requested this one, so here we go!
Moritz continues, “Riding the touchscreen trend launched by iPhone in 2007, Apple and Android phones were essentially the only two players in the game. Now that wide-open field is changing shape.”
Here are five reasons why the Google Android heyday is ending:
5: Hewlett-Packard’s Palm OS: Palm created one of the best touchscreen operating systems to rival Apple’s iPhone. Hewlett-Packard pickup of Palm gives it a viable smartphone software to power its mobile device attack.
MacDailyNews Take: Like we said, hair and sense or lack thereof. Palm’s WebOS is a failure. It is a double that needed to be a grand slam. It is superfluous in the market today. Let’s see if HP can get a CEO to stick around for more than few years before we proclaim their pickup of Palm – and subsequent shedding of key Palm personnel – as a viable threat to anyone.
4: Nokia: Down, but not yet out, Nokia, the Finnish phone colossus which still ranks as the world’s largest smartphone player, could make a go of MeeGo, its restart in smartphone software.
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, and Steve Ballmer could win “Dancing With The Stars.”
3: Microsoft Windows Phone 7
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, please. Android vs. WebOS vs. Windows 7 vs. MeeGo – it’s the battle of the also-rans! Who can make the closest iOS facsimile without getting sued back into the stone age?
2: RIM BlackBerry 6
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, yeah, BlackBerry. Tellingly, we forgot. Add it to the list in our previous Take above.
1: Verizon iPhone
MacDailyNews Take: BINGO. Damn you, Scott, for toying with us by serving up four jokes before finally getting to the one real reason why Google’s Android has peaked.
Full article – recommended, gasp! – here.