[dba-Tech] Android Is Destroying Everyone

I use win phone 7. Really impressed

Martin

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lawrence
Sent: 07 April 2011 18:02
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'; 'Off Topic'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Android Is Destroying Everyone


I would not say iPhone is dead in the water, just that they are loosing
ground to Android. Mind you everyone is lossing ground to Android:

http://www.businessinsider.com/android-iphone-market-share-2011-4

" The Android gains matter because technology platform markets tend to
standardize around a single dominant platform (see Windows in PCs, Facebook
in social, Google in search). And the more dominant the platform becomes,
the more valuable it becomes and the harder it becomes to dislodge. The
network effect kicks in, and developers building products designed to work
with the platform devote more and more of their energy to the platform. The
reward for building and working with other platforms, meanwhile, drops, and
gradually developers stop developing for them.

Importantly, it's not a question of which platform is "better." (This is
irrelevant.) It's a question of which platform everyone else uses.  And
increasingly, in the smartphone market, barring a radical change in trend,
that's Android.

So that's why Android's gains matter. And, yes, Apple fans should be scared
to death about them. "

Google may have created a near perfect business model and that model has the
potential of consuming not only the Cell phone market but with the eventual
release of the ChromeOS desktop.

" .Google has organized this defensive play with precision. Carriers and
handset makers that use Android are given economics to do so. The Android
version of the "AppStore" shares the majority of its economics with the
carrier and handset makers. Once again, they are not building a business,
they are building a moat (sorry for the repetitiveness, it's intentional).
Because they are "giving away" money to use their product, this creates a
rather substantial conundrum for someone trying to extract economic rent for
a competitive product in the same market.

This is the part that amazes me the most. I don't know if a large organized
industry has ever faced this fierce a form of competition - someone who is
not trying to "win" in the classic sense. They want market share, but they
don't need economics. Imagine if Ford were faced with GM paying people to
take Chevrolets? How many would they be able to sell? What if you received
$0.10 for every free Pepsi you consumed? Would you still pay $1.50 for a
Coke?... "

http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/03/24/freight-train-that-is-android/

Microsoft may have been described as the Borg but Google more closely fits
that description given their business model and implementation. Other
business may not even be able to compete as who can beat Free?

Jim

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