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]
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June 28th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Gees, just when I get excited that someone else is releasing an android phone I see that they are still only using a freaking 3.2″ screen. What’s up with these people, don’t they know that with the small default fonts android uses a 3.5″ screen is the minimum that should be used, unless you don’t mind getting an eye ache from squinting. Google gave people the tools to put every other smartphone to shame but all I see are phones being built with nothing but profit in mind. I’m not even in the business & I can see that if someone would use a larger screen, flash, larger fonts & zoom throughout the OS, faster processor & more ram we would have a real iPhone killer, not just a sub-par competitor – Apples recent releases have put them even further a head, even if they don’t allow apps to run in the background.