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1, as long asApple and Google's full competition
2, Apple have the advantage - the user experience, industrial design, consistency. Google - Cloud Computing, variety and openness.
3, Apple immediately faces the dare that they had not shown that they can get rid of USB, rotated to the clouds. Wireless synchronization, backup and update the system needs some (Apple's MobileMe, although the cloud, but the high charges, it is said to be free)
4, the biggest loser this week to the number of Microsoft, and they even had no accident to compete
5, but Microsoft do? They did not. Lack of attractive products, sluggish sales and a shrinking group of users;
6, Nokia's sales volume is ten periods the Apple, but Apple still higher than the Nokia big profits.
7, Gartner reported, Windows Mobile smartphone sales in the global market share was only 6.8%. A year ago, or 10.2% of the (report also said that, iPhone has a market share of 15.2%, while the Android 9.6%).
8, at the Google I / O keynote, they were not even mentioned even once! Indeed little chance is gone.

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Google I / O after, iPhone and Android championship seems less obvious, but now thatApple and Google's overall emulation. This is a great old-fashioned but competitive. We all like to watch this intense, even drastic competition, and we consumers will be the final beneficiaries of this competition. Competition, subserve innovation, while innovation is the new technology, new technology sources. It is because of innovation, a kind of smart machines with new features continue to emerge in recent years. Like before history of the competition as people memorize, Apple and Google both do not hold every other's core strengths are, and they both try to use their core strengths to define this new market.
Apple have the advantage of what is it? - User experience, industrial design, consistency. Google? - Cloud Computing, diversity and openness.
in Froyo many new features, most people feel is perhaps interesting to Google in the I / O keynote address shown on the Here is an instance of the use of this API: You can use PC's browser in the Android Marketplace to purchase an application (songs, or other), then choose one of them associated with your account Android product, you will must purchase something transmitted through the wireless network directly to your Android products.
Similarly, the same way you can use your current computer's browser to the residence on the telegraph web to your Android, if a web page, this page will open on Android's browser, if it is a Google Maps the URL, the link will map through the Android application opens.
data backup and data recovery in this regard, iPhone has the absolute advantage of Android, which purchased a new iPhone or upgrading a new system, you can use iTunes on the PC to re-sync, ahead you purchased applications or data will be restored (3GS recently upgraded to OS 4 betas, I base that even before the open on the page MobileSafari was restored) Android does not have what aspect of function, design, after a system, Android,GHD Gold Classic, and there is no provides a way for users to return data, Google is now trying to increase the application of cloud-based backup microcomputer to compensate for this deficiency. This approximate is feasible: Android to purchase a new product, log in to your Google account, your microprocessor ahead the subsistence of cloud applications and data can be sent to the wireless network on your Android.
currently no ashore Google Android, alike to the iPad such products, merely we clearly know thatsimilar products ambition presently be listed. As I mentioned in My iPad reiterate for, iPad maximum strange experience for you when you type out the carton when they feel: the iPad when you premier bring an end to ... of the box, the 1st thing you to do is use the USB wire to connect to your Mac alternatively PC, then synchronize with iTunes. iPad in this zone too much favor the iPhone. IPad USB is the only competent to convey melody, video and email account course. If you do no use the words of MobileMe, your contacts and calendar only via this way. In common, people feel quite backward in this course. This tin not aid merely calculate namely iPad is not a separate product, like a child still absence their parents to catch on the same. Then, relatively speaking, he is more like a youngster, not a youth child, it is seen to be independent of competence, and people consider he ought himself growing.
we can clearly see the iPhone OS and Android are leading the hereafter of post-PC era, I said PC is the Mac and Windows either. Simple is the advantage of this mobile device, but also thought that a PC can do many things they can not do, iPhone OS depends on the PC, iTunes and the USB to make up for this absence. The Android is dependent on the cloud. Dependent on the PC to transfer data after the truth should not be someone PC epoch. The challenges currently facing Apple is that they have not shown that they can get rid of USB, turning the clouds. Wireless synchronization, backup and update the system needs some Perhaps not a chance this week to the number of Microsoft's largest losers, and they even had no chance to compete. RIM appears to be very powerful, for Blackberrys in the U.S. smartphone mall continues to reserve the sales heading. But Microsoft do? They did not. Lack of magnetic products, inert sales and a shrinking team of users. Microsoft changed the least is taken for granted. Google in the I / O keynote address at the tit for tat with the iPhone, but they are more of a estate of the Microsoft incipient mall. Apple and RIM's strategy is to internalize the hardware and software. And Google is playing with Microsoft's tactics - to many manufacturer's authorized their development platform. Microsoft is not the biggest problem facing the mart can not exist 2 licensed platform, but Microsoft's success is based on if their total control platform for the market.
is ideal, Apple in the future can hold about 20-25% market share. In PC sales accounted for only 5% of global PC sales, but its brought large profits. The cause is very easy, because all Apple products are condensed in the mid and high-end market. In today's mobile phone market, all the phones, not just smartphones, Nokia's sales volume is ten times the Apple, but Apple still higher than the Nokia big profits. If Microsoft holds in the mobile platform is very small, they can not survive. Their licensing model is based on the measure of - relatively low price multiplied by a big profit. 400-600 dollars they are not selling phones, they are just 8-15 in which the U.S. system to acquire licensing fares. But Google allows workers and contractors to use Android system for free, Google not only has an advantage in the license price, and in Windows Phone 7 came out, Android has amassed two years of the competitiveness and market share.
three years ago, when the recently launched iPhone,GHD Blue Styler, Steve Ballmer said in an interview on USA Today's David Lieberman said: iPhone can not get much market share. That chance. It is a 500 dollars value of products and government subsidies, which may be can send them big profits, but if you see at that 1.3 billion mobile phones being sold, I'd rather have 60% or 80% of the market and do not the 2% or 3% market share, even now it brings the profit objective. And that microscopic market share, Apple will get it. Steve Ballmer is not only underestimated the iPhone, but also overestimate their own Windows Mobile. Three years ago he said was 60%, 70% or even 80% market share, this week, Gartner reported, Windows Mobile smartphone sales in the global market share was only 6.8%. A year ago, or 10.2% of the (report also said that, iPhone has a market share of 15.2%, meantime the Android 9.6%). Microsoft can not compete on price with the Android, but can convert increasingly visible that, Microsoft in features and user experience is also very difficult to arrest up on the Android. In Google I / O keynote, they were not even mentioned even once! Indeed tiny chance is gone.
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Post-I / O Thoughts
Saturday, 22 May 2010
Post-Google I / O, there's not much room left to see iPhone-vs.-Android as everything additional than an all-out battle. What we've got here is a agreeable old-fashioned epic rivalry.
It's exciting, vicious, fun to see, and ultimately should prove to be wonderful news for clients. Competition pedals innovation and innovation heaves the bar for everyone. And the bar, for smartphones, is rising rapidly.
Like whichever great rivalry, there are emphatic differences among the two antagonists. Apple and Google are jostling to shift the comparison among the two platforms to their very different strengths. Apple's strengths: user experience, design, consistency. Google's strengths: the cloud, variety, permissiveness.
The most interesting upcoming Android feature that Google demoed at I / O is a
■ Buy an app (hardly everng, or anything) from the Android Marketplace using a PC web browser, select one of your Android devices, and the item you just purchased will be pushed instantly to that device over the air.
■ Take the current URL from your PC web explorer and shove it apt your appliance, over the air. If it's a web sheet, it'll open in the Android network browser; if it's a Google Maps URL, it'll open in the Android Maps app.
One area where the iPhone has been far along of Android is in terms of backing up and restoring data. Buy a new iPhone, or install a major OS update, and when you re-sync with iTunes on your desktop, all your apps and data are re-installed. (After upgrading my 3GS to the iPhone OS 4 developer betas recently, I noticed that even the web pages I'd left open in MobileSafari were restored.)
Android doesn't have that. Upgrade to a new Android device,GHD IV Styling Set, and there is no way to transfer your file from the old device to the new an. Google is upping the ante on the iPhone here, whereas, at adding cloud -based data backup for Android applications. The way it should work: obtain a new Android device, record in with your Google account, and your apps and data are reinstated to the device, over the air.
Android has nothing today that competes with the iPad. But we all understand Android-based iPad-like pills are naturally coming.1 As I famous in my iPad review, the oddest part of the iPad experience is what happens when you first take it out of the box:
One thing that is very iPhone-like approximately iPad is that when you first take it out of the box, it wants to be plugged into your Mac or PC through USB and sync with iTunes. In some ways, that's understandable. USB syncing is how you load your iPad with music and videos and transfer over matter like your email accounts, and, if you're not using MobileMe, your contacts and calendars. But, on the entire, it feels retrograde. It creates an impression that the iPad does not stand on its own. It's a child that still needs a parent. But it's not a young child. It's more like a teenager. It's close. So close that it feels like it ought to be able to stand on its own .
It's manifest that iPhone OS and Android devices are paving the way to a post-PC future, where by that they can't do everything a PC can. iPhone OS devices rely upon a PC, iTunes, and USB syncing to administer this breach. Android devices rely above servers in the cloud.
Relying upon a PC is ipso facto not and system updates need to be something that
'No Chance'
The big loser this week, though, was Microsoft. They're simply not even part of the game. RIM looms massive, as BlackBerrys proceed to reign as the best-selling smartphones in the US But Microsoft? They've got nought. No amusing devices, feeble sales, and a shortening user base. Microsoft's irrelevance is taken for acknowledged.
Google's competitive converge on the iPhone at I / O was intense and scathing. But it's Microsoft's luncheon they're eating. Apple's and RIM's game is selling the integrated whole - their own devices, running their own software. Google is playing Microsoft's game - licensing a platform to many device producers.
The big problem for Microsoft is not that there isn't,GHD Pink Limited Edition, in methodology, room for more than one licensed mobile platform, but rather that Microsoft's model hinges upon monopoly-sized market share. Apple could positively thrive with a long-term mobile market share of, mention, 20-25 percent. In the PC manufacture, Apple generates an outsized share of the profits antagonism selling only 5 percent of the absolute units worldwide, because all of Apple's PCs are in the medium and high price range of the market. In the phone manufacture today - all mobile phones, not just smartphones - Nokia sells more than 10 times as many units as Apple, but Apple generates more profit.
Microsoft can't afford for its mobile platform to account for equitable a sliver of the industry's unit sales. Their copyrighting model is always about volume - low per-unit profits multiplied by an enormous digit of units. They're not selling $ 400-600 phones, they're selling $ 8-15 licenses for an OS.
But Google lets carriers and handset makers license Android for free. And not only has Google slit the bottom out of the market price-wise,GHDS, by the time Windows Phone 7 phones really come to market, Android will have two complete years of momentum and market share backward it.
Three years ago, just before the original iPhone shipped, here's what Steve Ballmer said in an interview with USA Today's David Lieberman:
sold, I'd favor to have our software in 60 percent or 70 percent or 80 percent of them, than I would to have 2 percent or 3 percent, which is what Apple might get.
Not only was he wrong about the iPhone, but he was even more erroneous about Windows Mobile. Three years antecedent Ballmer was talking about 60, 70, 80 percentage market share. This week, Gartner reported that Windows Mobile has dropped to 6.8 percent market share in international smartphone sales, down dramatically from 10.2 percent a annual ago. (The same report puts iPhone OS at 15.2 percent, and Android at 9.6.)
Microsoft can't undercut Android on price, and it seems increasingly unlikely that they can buffet Android in terms of features or experience. They didn't warrant even a passing reference from Google at I / O. No chance, naturally.

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1.Although there's still no decent Android-based equivalent to the iPod Touch. ↩