iPad killer only down the corner
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- oey0
I've bought a book yesterday. Sorry for the trees...
- formed0
We all saw this coming, right?
The big difference here is going to be the money making part. Apple has a TON of free cash and makes ALL their money from selling hardward (iAds, or whatever their called, is the first attempt at ad revenue).
Google is the opposite. They built Android to give away and dominate the market. But their money comes from ads.
IF, and a big IF, Google can take more and more chunks of the hardware side (even if it doesn't 'make' money, it just takes market share from Apple) then they are going to slowly squeeze Apple down in dominance.
I'd be SUPER happy if Google bought a company like HTC, then they could truly dominate the world!
I think I'll buy some more Google stock today, thank you ;-)
Competition is good. We are going to get some pretty damn nice products in the years to come. Google won't f it up like Microsoft did and is showing they can give Apple a real run for their money.
- zenmasterfoo0
I have a droid phone. I, like most Verizon users got it because we didn't want to give up our plans and move to AT&T.
That said, the UI isn't slick. There are some neat things, but most is a copy/re-skin of the iPhone UI. It's fast, that much is true and Navigator is dope. But the apps are more than lame, the UI falls short on details and you can obviously see it's a work in progress, whereas the iPhone got their shit straight from the get go.
The iPad has a leap on the rest again because the UI is well thought out, and development is easy. I doubt, with Google's track record so far with droid, that they'll come out of the box with a "killer" of any kind.
My vote: whatever. I'm waiting until January and getting an iPhone then getting the next version iPad when that drops .
- the only "new" original phone OS looks to be windows 7zenmasterfoo
- formed0
I like Apple's products better, too. No one comes close to their refinement. Why, I don't know. For ages now, all the competition had/has to do is to copy things!
BUT, competition is always good for the consumer. Hopefully, Google will get it right and only make 1-2 products.
It would seem that HTC could make an iPhone rival (true rival) if they just focused on one great phone, not 20 different versions.
- raf0
Flash on Android: disaster
http://blog.laptopmag.com/mobile…
- ukit0
If you think about it, Apple is/was in a position that few other companies were. They had been building hardware and software since the late 70s.
I don't think a company, even a smart one like Google, can just decide they want to suddenly make computers and develop the expertise overnight.
- kpl0
apple -> revenue from end users. products ultimately serve the end user.
google -> revenue from advertisers. products ultimately serve advertisers.
- ukit0
Also, before making statements like "Apple will be dead in the water soon" you kind of have to put the relative success of the two companies in perspective. Apple is making billions from iPhone/ iPad. By the end of the year, I wouldn't be surprised if that revenue is slightly more than what they make off their sales of desktop computers and laptops.
Google is making billions too...from the core business they've relied in all along, search advertising. They are not turning a profit from Android yet that I am aware of. Nor will they probably be, anytime soon, from tablets or Google TV.
I think the success of the the iPad sort of took them by surprise, hence the switch to a touchscreen format at the last minute. Their goal all along has been to compete with Microsoft, not Apple, which I'd argue are better suited for. That's why Chrome OS was originally planned to launch on Netbook style laptop.
At its heart Chrome OS was always about this fairly radical idea of an OS that is completely browser based, with all your data stored online, and desktop apps replaced by HTML5 web apps. That is Google's ace in the hole because it would allow them to usurp Microsoft's dominance of business software.
