Android Invasion: The Next Phase Begins..

[AnimalMagnetism]

But can they sell 3,000,000 in 3 weeks......

LOL

I'll have to go play with that at a best buy.....

OTB

check it out otb and djk lolz

Steve Jobs confirms: Android outselling iPhone

A little math shows that Android has surpassed iPhone in raw numbers.
Steve Jobs said today that Apple has sold 3 million iPhone 4's in just 22 days. That's pretty impressive, but Google announced yesterday – and at the Droid X announcement last month – that it is activating 160,000 Android devices per day. Multiply that out by 22 days and you get over 3.5 million devices sold.

So, is it official then?


To be fair: we don't know how many previous-generation iPhone 3GS models (which are still being sold) Apple is currently selling, so the total number of iPhones sold per day is unclear. Apple also currently only sells the iPhone 4 in its largest seven national markets. It will launch iPhone 4 in smaller markets over the next few months.

Something that could possibly be more troubling for Apple is that there was some pent up demand if Apple sold 1.7 million in the first few days in the US and only 1.3 million more in the following 19 days, including big launches in UK, France, Germany and Japan.



That means that since the quater started for Apple 19 days ago, Apple has only sold around 70,000 iPhone 4s a day, less than half of the current Android activation rate.

One reason for this is that supplies of iPhone 4's appear to be constrained. While the iPhone 3GS is available everywhere, the iPhone 4 has a three week lead time –and there is no white model to be found until the end of the month.

Apple has a full year until they release another iPhone (unless they release an antenna-fixed iPhone 4.1) if they stick to their yearly summer launch schedule.

If you want to get a larger picture of the mobile OS landscape, other factors have to be considered. Apple's iOS is running on Apple's popular iPods and iPads as well as the iPhone. Android hasn't yet made inroads into those markets, so iOS is probaby still out in front of Android overall. Android does count in its activation tallies devices which access the Internet through cellular service, including eReaders like the Nook. But those numbers are rounding errors compared to mobile phone sales.

However, in phones, Google seems to have a winner on its hands. It will be hard for Apple to catch Android's numbers if the company can't even surpass their competitor's running weekly total at its yearly iPhone launch.

 

[Powershot]

They should be atleast doubling iPhone sales, they're being sold by so many companies and in different price ranges, it should be the quantity champ by far given it does most of the same things. Profit per device would be harder to measure. Obviously profit per company is miniscule in comparison because they couldn't develop their own O/S or store.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Profit per device would be harder to measure.

True!
A friend just picked up a cell phone from Verizon. The Samsung phone he got was free! The text/data/call plan costs him $40/month.

Another buddy did the same only he paid $20 for the Verizon phone with the same $40 call plan.

They are both happy, say they have phones that do everything they want and have a better service than crappy AT&T....

 

[AnimalMagnetism]

Why Android Will Win the Mobile Platform War

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which mobile operating system is fairest of all? That's a common question, given the many contenders in the mobile arena--and the well-publicized glitches that have recently come up

How would I answer? Like this: The iPhone can be pretty, that's for sure, but it can't hold a candle to Android's allure.

Linux-based Android is going to win, plain and simple. Why? Let's count the ways.

1. Flexibility
A hallmark of Apple's approach has always been putting users in a "walled garden" whereby they are "protected" from having to deal with the computer's nuts and bolts directly. Hand-in-hand with that approach comes restrictiveness; users are only allowed to do things that Apple has decided to let them do, just as they can only buy applications that have been preapproved. Apple insists on controlling the whole ecosystem.

With Android, on the other hand--much as with Linux itself--it's a wide-open world. Users have much more freedom to do what they want, developers have more freedom to create and sell applications for the ecosystem, and manufacturers can customize the experience for their customers.

2. Strength in Numbers
Apple's ability to be so restrictive stems largely from the fact that there's just one Apple and just one iPhone. That device could be the best in the world, but if there's only one, consumers will inevitably get less control and less choice. You may recall seeing something like that in the desktop arena.

With Android, the choices are many. LG alone is set to roll out at least 20 new Android devices this year. Among other things, that means that if one device fails, there will be plenty of others to continue the race.

3. DIY Tools
With App Inventor, Google has put even more power in users' hands by making it easier than ever before to create the apps they want. Sure, that will result in more junk apps out there--but it will also surely enable some gems. This will be just what the platform needed to help it catch up with the iPhone's head start in the app arena. A year ago, there were some 10,000 apps in Android Market--this month, it's expected to surpass 100,000. Where the apps go, users will follow.

4. Focus on Users
One of the things I found most disturbing in the recent "Antennagate" debacle surrounding Apple's iPhone 4 is how long the company took to acknowledge the problem and to respond. I think this ties directly into its iron-fisted control and monopoly over the iPhone experience. Monopoly-holders don't tend to care much about users; only when there's choice do they become a concern

5. The Google Factor
Yes, there are other Linux-based mobile operating systems out there--Intel's MeeGo and Samsung's Bada, for instance. But Android is the one that has Google's support, and that's worth a lot.

Then, of course, there's the data. By virtually every account, Android looks poised to dominate the smartphone market in not very long. Some 100,000 Android devices are shipping every day, and market researcher ABI predicts that Linux-based handsets will account for 33 percent of the market by 2015.

Android specifically, meanwhile, is growing quickly. Whereas Apple smartphones lost a percentage point of market share between February and May, Google's Android gained an additional 4 percent, according to comScore. That's pretty impressive.

Heck, even Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg recently ditched his iPhone for an Android device.

In short, while Apple will always have its die-hard fans, just as it does on the desktop, the days of its restrictive dominance are numbered, at least in the mobile arena. Instead, a common sentiment in the coming months, I predict, will be the one depicted on this T-shirt. (No offense, Steve!)

 

[juanbrujo]

Like i've been telling people, Android is the new Apple.

That's an insult. Apple is for hippies.

 

[onthebottom]

How many Droid X phones have been sold?

OTB

 

[AnimalMagnetism]

How many Droid X phones have been sold?

OTB

more than they can make! all sold out and back ordered. no cases needed

 

[djk]

How many Droid X phones have been sold?

OTB

I wonder if they're going to use the same fuzzy math that Sprint used regarding the HTC EVO.

http://techtickerblog.com/2010/06/09/sprint-inadvertently-inflated-htc-evo-launch-figures/

LOLOL!

 

[WoodPeckr]

I wonder if they're going to use the same fuzzy math that Sprint used regarding the HTC EVO.

Page bottie .....STAT!!!

bottie is our resident 'fuzzy numbers expert'!

Learnt it in business school he did!......

 

[AnimalMagnetism]

I wonder if they're going to use the same fuzzy math that Sprint used regarding the HTC EVO.

http://techtickerblog.com/2010/06/09/sprint-inadvertently-inflated-htc-evo-launch-figures/

LOLOL!

yes Sprint made a boo boo lol it's almost as funny as a company(cough*apple*cough) not realizing that their signal strength meters were completely wrong through 3 generations
how did that fuzzy math work out for them?

 

[onthebottom]

more than they can make! all sold out and back ordered. no cases needed

Do you have a number?

Bit of warning, last quarter Apple sold more iPhones than Motorola sold in all phone categories.

OTB

 

[AnimalMagnetism]

Latest Report Puts Google Android as Smartphone Leader

Google's Android has grown an amazing 886 percent year-to-year growth in sales since it's debut.

When Google’s Android mobile OS launched it was met with skepticism, pessimism, and doubt. Slowly but surely, Google recruited new hardware partners, launched new handsets, eventually reaching sales of 65,000 units a day — then 100,000. And Google maintained a relentless pace of OS releases — with such high profile updates as Android 1.5, 2.0, 2.1, and, most recently, 2.2 (Froyo).

Now market researcher Canalys claims that Google is now the top player in the U.S. smartphone market in terms of market share. According to Canalys’s extensive study, Google owns 34 percent of the market compared to Research in Motion’s 32 percent and Apple’s 21.7 percent.

Propelled by wildly successful handsets like HTC Hero (October 2009), Motorola Droid (November 2009), HTC Droid Incredible (April 2010), HTC EVO 4G (June 2010), and Motorola Droid X (July 2010), Google has dominated the market with an astounding sales growth of 886 percent.

Perhaps the only analogy to what Google is doing in the history of operating systems is Microsoft’s incredible conquest of the personal computer operating system market with Windows. Much like Windows, Google’s multi-hardware OEM, open approach, focused on providing customers with a broad array of choices, is crushing its more specialized competitors, like Apple (which ironically was similarly crushed by Microsoft in the PC OS market).

That’s not to say that Apple or RIM are posting financial losses. In fact, Apple grew 61 percent in sales year-to-year and RIM grew 41 percent. What is happening, though, is that they appear to be missing the growth opportunity that Android has found with its open, third-party hardware model.

Android’s success looks especially scary considering that it appears to just be getting warmed up. Android 3.0 “Gingerbread” should launch this holiday season with some pretty amazing new features. Motorola, HTC, and others are reportedly already cooking up new high end handsets to accompany the OS launch.

In terms of individual hardware OEMs, Nokia still is the dominant party, owning 38 percent of the market. Overall smartphone sales rose 64 percent on a year-to-year basis.

Only Android is on the rise!

 

[AnimalMagnetism]

How to Check if Your Android App is Stealing Info
There are no excuses for Android owners to follow this simple step-by-step.

Google is far more lenient than Apple regarding app development. But such openness comes at a cost. Security firm Lookout recently discovered that over 80 Android wallpaper apps collected users' personal data and sent it to a server in China.

When you install an app from the Market, a screen will tell you what the app will access. That may include your location, network communication, personal info, storage, phone calls, and your accounts. Simply read the contents of the access list screen carefully before installing any application.

For apps already installed on your Android device, you can review the access of your installed apps on the Manage Applications screen. On most Android devices, simply pull up the menu, tap Settings, and select Applications. Select an app from the list then scroll down to see the Permissions section. Anything that appears out-of-the-ordinary—like a wallpaper app that has access to your contacts, should be removed immediately.



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