“Public awareness of the importance with which commercial companies regard their private digital data is growing,” Evans writes. “Ordinary consumers are beginning to understand just how much information about them is being collected by these unaccountable corporations, with or without satisfactory permission or adequate explanation. They don’t like it.”
“Privacy is important. And privacy is Google’s Achilles’ Heel. It doesn’t understand it, doesn’t respect it, and thinks everyone should change their identity now and then in order to avoid the limiting effects of a world without privacy,” Evans writes. “But why should we?”
“Consumers haven’t yet begun abandoning use of Google products, but as they begin to understand the data-mining nature of those Android handsets, some may find they’d prefer to use the smartphone Google seems to be basing its Android OS ideas on,” Evans writes. “And that’s an iPhone.”
Evans writes, “There’s no guarantee Android will prevail. There’s lots of Google partners and potential partners raising their hands into the air and praying for rain, but collectively shared incantations don’t always come true… While others look to Google for innovation in Android 3.0, Apple is already quietly dreaming up what’s to come in iOS 5.0. And while Google has proven expertise in data and search technologies, Apple has an edge in, you know, operating system design. And what is to stop Apple continuing to diversify its product range? iPhone nano, anyone? An iOS Mac? An Apple TV with iOS and a pico video projector? The sky really is the limit.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Price, price, price, price, price. There is no meaningful price advantage for an Android phone over an iPhone. That’s the main reason why most people settled for Windows PCs instead of the Macs they really wanted. The reason most people settle for Android phones instead of the iPhone they really want is because they can’t get an iPhone on their carrier. This is mainly a U.S. phenomenon. That’s where Android has its toe-hold; its big claim to “success.” The second Apple takes iPhone to multiple carriers in the U.S. is the very second that Google’s warped dream begins to die.
Android. Never do with one button that which you can do with four.™
And, oh-by-the-way, Steve Jobs is in charge this time, not cast out to create another company (one that would ultimately save Apple) while far lesser minds drive Apple into the ground.
So, no, Google, another upside-down, backwards, second-rate knockoff will not dominate this time; because your “partners'” knockoffs have no meaningful price advantage with which to sway the ignorant. iPhone starts at $99. iPad starts at $499. Plus, Apple has the economies of scale to do whatever the hell they want, whenever they hell they want.
iCal us: iPhone will not play out like the Mac. Neither will iPad. The iPhone/iPad are not the Mac, so stop comparing them. Anyone who does so is ignorant of the very basic business forces that shaped the PC wars. And any CEO that claims such a thing is either lying or incompetent or, most likely, both.
If you want to see how the iPhone and iPad competition will play out, look not at the Mac, but at the iPod.