March 19th, 2008

Google: Android Will Outsell Apple iPhone

After his presentation at the Emerging Communications Conference, the group manager for Google’s mobileplatforms Rich Miner made the following statement:

Once you have devices out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there’s a much larger potential market on Android than for the iPhone. There’s a single manufacturer, it’s targeted at a particular demographic, and it falls far short of the 1 billion mobile phones sold every year worldwide.

Miner also commented on the recent release of the iPhone SDK, adding; “There are things I saw people doing with the first version of the Android SDK that it seems like you can’t do with the iPhone at least at the moment”.

However he did accept that the iPhone and Android products are aimed at different markets:

“It’s not a competitive thing — it’s great that people are finally building tools so all of these third-party applications can be built and get out there,” Miner said. “[If I were a developer] I’d certainly be looking at the iPhone, and if you believe there will be lots of Android phones out there, as we do, I’d be developing for both platforms.”

[via Information Week]