Why Android is better than iPhone.

[h=1]Report: Android slowly losing market share[/h]

Android's rather sizable share of the U.S. smartphone marketdeclined slightly from 52.4% to 49.5% last quarter.
Although it is probably far too early to draw any real conclusions from the above-mentioned data, at least one analyst believes Android's downward spiral will continue to accelerate.
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"In our opinion, this is just the beginning of Android's share loss in the U.S.," Needham & Co. analyst Charlie Wolf wrote in an investors note obtained by AppleInsider.
While Wolf predicted Android would regain market share duringJune-September, the analyst emphasized a "material decline" is likely to begin in the December quarter following the launch of Apple's long-awaited iPhone 5.
Wolf also blamed Android's slight market dip on sales of the iPhone 4 via Verizon's Wireless network, and speculated "the iPhone could launch on the Sprint and T-Mobile networks this fall" - granting Apple yet another significant boost in share.
However, Wolf did concede that Android is "well positioned" in two huge markets: Asia Pacific and the Rest of World regions.
In sharp contrast, Apple is "faced with the challenge" of building an iPhone Lite for prepaid markets like China - where the wildly popular smartphone has yet "to scratch the surface" of the Chinese market which boasts an estimated 896 million mobile phones.



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Haha, like your sig Poser. "Waiting for the Next Thing means you'd never buy anything" is so true right now in my case. I have the Apple 3G iphone. I just happened to be buying a phone when it came out and it was definitly better than anything out there at the time. I still remember people coming up to me just to see how it worked. Now all these smart phones are going head to head with one another and its debatable which is best. Sister has the 4G iphone, its great...gf has the HTC Incredible, its great too. Having such a hard time deciding what to go with when I get a new phone shortly. I think they are probably all good, but its crazy when they keep pumping out the next best model every other day.
 
First off, it's just an iPhone 4, not 4G, depending on when you gonna grab a new phone, looks like a newer iPhone in September 2011.

This whole stats earlier in this thread about android in the lead, is US stats, where only AT&T had iPhone, now Verizon, when sprint and t-mobile get it, ooopss. Now here in Canada, where is the stats, Rogers bell telus fido virgin etc, etc got this all in one mobile device, and other countries getting it now too. there is a lot of people out there, instead of a contract, they get an iPod touch to enjoy the feel.
 
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In the jailbreak community for iPhone(iOS), there is a new tweak(s)-(feature) almost everyday, to enhance your device, its kinda cool to have that option. Besides the tweaks, there is a lot of other items released daily to download and enjoy the user experience of your device, and then there is major updates, and also apps.
 
I have to say that I got to play around with a PlayBook a few weeks back and I was actually VERY impressed. Most of the "missing features" that the reviewers seem to be bitching about are actually features that are perhaps being mis-understood. I think the playbook is actually a VERY VERY solid product and the OS that it's running seems VERY capable and smooth. If RIM can apply the same kind of quality OS to a phone I would be perfectly willing to go back to RIM and get a BlackBerry again.
 
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I have to say that I got to play around with a PlayBook a few weeks back and I was actually VERY impressed. Most of the "missing features" that the reviewers seem to be bitching about are actually features that are perhaps being mis-understood. I think the playbook is actually a VERY VERY solid product and the OS that it's running seems VERY capable and smooth. If RIM can apply the same kind of quality OS to a phone I would be perfectly willing to go back to RIM and get a BlackBerry again.
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I have no doubt its a good device, though still missing key features that they should have had at release. RIM is hurting bad, already they had to drop there sales target for the second quarter to 900,000 from 2.4 million. They are just not selling. I personally dont like the size, the 10 inch table is the perfect fit between my iPhone and laptop.
 
I don't know why anybody has a home phone these days. I guess if you yap on the phone all day long or make long distance calls often it makes sense as it's probably cheaper than a cell phone.... but f' having 2 numbers and 2 phones to pay for.
 
Roasted said:
I have to say that I got to play around with a PlayBook a few weeks back and I was actually VERY impressed. Most of the "missing features" that the reviewers seem to be bitching about are actually features that are perhaps being mis-understood. I think the playbook is actually a VERY VERY solid product and the OS that it's running seems VERY capable and smooth. If RIM can apply the same kind of quality OS to a phone I would be perfectly willing to go back to RIM and get a BlackBerry again.
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It's small and nobody develops software for it. The Playbook was vapourware before it even hit the market. By now everybody in the industry knows that if you can't attract developers, you're dead in the water. This is why the iPad is a success... it's a single device with huge consumer market appeal, so developers flock to it because it's easy to build for and there's only 1 platform to develop towards. They also know that when the next iteration of the product comes out, it'll still run all their software.

Android tablets? No such luck. Every one is different and every one runs a different version of the OS. Developers don't wanna waste their time when making money in the iOS market is so much simpler.
 
mmmnaked said:
I don't know why anybody has a home phone these days. I guess if you yap on the phone all day long or make long distance calls often it makes sense as it's probably cheaper than a cell phone.... but f' having 2 numbers and 2 phones to pay for.
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im with you, but i do have a wife(cellphone too), and kids(5), the biggest one(13) have his own cellphone, which i hardly see him use... the next one, a girl(11), soon to be a phone hog, cellphone won't cut it.... so i was thinking about getting a house phone again, most house phones i know are so boring when it comes to features, but with this android, there will be a lot of functions, where i can give my cellphone battery a break when i'm home. I use my cellphone on speakerphone 95% of the time due to radiation.

i could remember about 2-3 years ago, rogers offered a voip house number service($10/mth) that worked thru wifi, that worked for certain cellphones, i think the blackberry bold was good to go, but not the iphone, so i couldn't get it, and i think the service flopped, not sure tho.
edit: found this, launched march 2011, wifi for business...http://www.rogers.com/business/on/en/smallbusiness/products/wireless/wifi/

and i'm still on the venture of getting an android device to play with.
 
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It's small and nobody develops software for it. The Playbook was vapourware before it even hit the market. By now everybody in the industry knows that if you can't attract developers, you're dead in the water. This is why the iPad is a success... it's a single device with huge consumer market appeal, so developers flock to it because it's easy to build for and there's only 1 platform to develop towards. They also know that when the next iteration of the product comes out, it'll still run all their software.

Android tablets? No such luck. Every one is different and every one runs a different version of the OS. Developers don't wanna waste their time when making money in the iOS market is so much simpler.
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Vapourware implies it doesn't exist, which it does. That being said, the playbook still isn't going to gain any traction any time soon, especially with iPad 3 rumors popping up after hardware IDs showed up in the iOS5 beta. RIM wasted their time with the Playbook. If you want apps, you go with the iPad. If you want web/mail functionality, you go with Android. The Playbook just doesn't fit into the current line up of hardware offerings.
 
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If you want apps, you go with the iPad. If you want web/mail functionality, you go with Android.
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What do you mean web/mail functionality? Go android?

I never used android, but what does it have more than an iPad is capable of, and is really good, according to me.
 
Yeah the part about "web/mail functionality" has be baffled. Last I checked the iPad is perfectly capable of connecting to the web and fetching emails....


I'm sure someone will chime in regarding lack of flash support, and to that I have two things to say:
1. Flash implementation generally sucks on Android devices anyways
2. Flash won't be around for too much longer
 
What an excellent "study" :lol:

You mean more people buy a $100 device than a $500 device? shock & awe

The two aren't even similar products.
 
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