Android to own 50% of smartphone marketshare by 2012
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- akrok0
you know what's funny.
the phones has got smarter. but the people hasn't.android, is like windows/peecee. of course it will have a bigger market share. it's has a ton of different phones who uses is it.
it's like corn syrup. most products has it.
it's like a fucking starbucks. one in every corner.
it's like that song that plays 24 times a day, every day on the radio.- < first 2 lines, best post ever!chrisRG
- the 3 lines couldn't be more wrong. the iphone is the most common smartphone by far.Hombre_Lobo
- english isn't his first language... give hans a breakmonospaced
- antagonista0
Boz, you're a sad brainwashed little boy. It was fun rattling your badly designed cage, but it's boring now. Do you have a suicide vest next to your droid? Haha. You're like a cult member, ironically.
- antagonista0
Actually, at this point I'm starting to think Boz works for droid. That would explain the piss poor design.
- antagonista0
- Look at that amazing typography. A true prelude to the garbage inside. Boz, you design that?antagonista
- the Galaxy is shit. I've spent about an hour with it recently.chalk
- antagonista0
Why do bad designers hate Apple so much? Oh wait, nevermind.
- You are such a cockfadein11
- ha no website - what a surprisefadein11
- likewise.antagonista
- You don't need to see my website, you already frequent ones I've designed.antagonista
- chrisRG0
Crazy are the days when people are supporting Brands like they support Religion.
Brand fundamentalists, on both sides. and the funny thing is that only happens to this, because hipsters think that if you own a certain type of phone or computer you are 'cooler'. That doesn't seem to happen for any other electronic piece.
- Cameras? Game consoles? There are definitely other ones. That's the story of Jesus.MrT
- exactly!chrisRG
- 100% of cameras are better than 99% of photographers.antagonista
- jon_d0
meego bitch
- lifeindev0
Android fanboys vs. Apple fanboys. Who wins?
Nobody, children are starving.
- chalk0
Owning 50% of the market share means shit to me when your products have no unified vision, and come with some really atrocious UI. I have in the last month played with just about every Android device as research for a start-up I'm involved with. They need to focus on getting their shit together, IMO.
Honestly, Boz, you should just make a "The Boz Thread" so I don't have to accidentally stumble on these wasted bytes of intertubes all the time.
- and you should stfu because you are a worthless idiot who thinks is the shit for using an overpriced POS product.Boz
- manonthestreet0
If you are not embracing, designing, and developing for both of these platforms you are losing.
Ever handle a palm pixie [now HP]...they are actually nice also.
As far as apps go I find android to boast much more useful free apps. I love that I can FTP from my android phone and used tethering quite a bit.
I am warming up to my ipad, but only for 'enjoyable' surfing.
- +1 on the HP UI, but it's still clunky. You can ftp on iOS, i did all the time before dropbox.antagonista
- Hombre_Lobo0
jesus christ....
What is wrong with fucking fan boys. Cant people like something these days without calling the competition a steaming pile of shit.
The iphone is decent, android is decent. windows phone 7 is fucking decent.
buy a phone, dont buy into a fan boy cult.
- amenmonospaced
- for the record, this was not directed at boz at all, nor was it in reply to the OP. 50% market share is interesting news.Hombre_Lobo
- Hombre_Lobo0
- +1chrisRG
- they are red, so they must make you run fasterautoflavour
- FACT AUTOHombre_Lobo
- monospaced0
Anyone who falls for the swoosh kool-aid is a fucking idiot. I will be laughing my fucking ass off when Nike goes down because it's so obvious that Adidas are better. They make you run faster, but because they aren't a marketing giant like Nike they will not grow as fast. Next year Adidas will outsell Nike and take more than half the marketshare and anyone wearing Nikes will look like a fool!
- omg0
- chrisRG0
^ ;)
Anyone who falls for the swoosh kool-aid is a fucking idiot. I will be laughing my fucking ass off when 'Apple' goes down because it's so obvious that 'Google' are better. They make you run faster, but because they aren't a marketing giant like 'Apple' they will not grow as fast. Next year 'Google' will outsell 'Apple' and take more than half the marketshare and anyone wearing 'Apple' will look like a fool!
- ukit0
It's a triumph of capitalist system that people now argue over which corporation and brand they'd rather give their money to
- << indeed. triumph of excellent marketing and branding too. for that you have to applaud apple. customer loyalty like no other.Hombre_Lobo
- Weyland0
In my experience Apple users are people who really like computers but who don't really understand computers, fair play to all of them
- That's a ridiculous statement.brettcalzada
- thats a true statement, very true.Hombre_Lobo
- Thanks hombre, it's a generalisation for sure but it does sum up my Apple owning friendsWeyland
- antagonista0
Apple users are people with things to do and just need their computer to work so they can do it. I understand computers, used a 486 for years... hacked, did mods. That's fun and all, but when you just need to get some work done without bullshit, macs do the trick better than anything out there.... right now anyway. Seriously, 15 years later you still can't do exact pixel placement in powerpoint. Seriously?
I also remember when macs were garbage, costing twice as much as PCs and crashing every 5 minutes. How the world turns.
- your insight into Android smartphone marketshare is spot onmonospaced
- It's my job. No seriously, I do it for a living. hahaantagonista
- I learned how to do exact pixel placement in PPT a few weeks back. Turn off "Snap to Grid".5timuli
- That's hilarious. Do they still do the measurements in inches even though it's designed for screen? haha. I use keynote now.antagonista
- JSK0
Apple II E was my computer. Worked beautifully until they allowed clones.
- aw, come on. I had a Power Computing tower that was rad.brettcalzada
- I had a PowerComputing tower that was the best mac on the market at the timemonospaced