The Truth About Apple’s iPhone Market Share
Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid!
January 5th, 2010 at 2:47 PM - by John Martellaro
There are many ways to compare the iPhone to the competition, and the
choice may depend on what kind of story you want to tell. Or your
hidden agenda. Here are the facts about Apple's iPhone market share.
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/the_truth_about_apples_iphone_market_share/
We're all familiar with the phrase, "The fastest growing publication
in America." I've used that phrase myself in the past, and it's an
interesting feature of statistics. When something is very small,
modest real number gains produce amazing percentage results. For
example, when a publication doubles its subscribers from 2,000 to
4,000, that's a 100 percent growth rate. However, if another
publication grows from, say, 150,000 subscribers to 152,000, that's
merely a 1.3 percent gain. So the phrase "fastest growing" often means
"the smallest" in absolute numbers.read post with charts...
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/the_truth_about_apples_iphone_market_share/
Ness-Net
AT&T�s Android to Take a Bite Out of Apple
Google�s Android OS is going to be out there and available on every major carrier � ahead of the iPhone. That gives
developers a bigger push in creating apps for the Android app store, and users more reason to purchase the phone.
All-in-all, this has to scare Apple a bit, as they�re still contracted as an AT&T-only phone for a bit longer, giving
Google a fairly big multi-carrier head start.
http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-hey-apple-wake-up-it-2010-1
Hey, Apple, Wake Up -- It's Happening Again
In its short life, Google's Android operating system has captivated developers and stolen mindshare from Apple, Research
in Motion, Palm, and other companies that have been in the mobile business forever. The "Droid" and Google Phone are
getting rave reviews, and technology tastemakers are thrilled with the platform's open-ness (in contrast to Apple's
app-store, which continues to get between iPhone customers and app-developers). Apple, meanwhile, is coming under
increasing scrutiny for being a domineering control freak hell-bent on secretly undermining its competitors (see the
Google Voice incident).
Will the movie play out the same way this time? Will Apple's insistence on maintaining end-to-end control, on trying to
shoot the moon by owning every aspect of the mobile computing business, doom it to failure against a competitor hell-bent
on achieving software ubiquity?
And... wait for it.....
Report: AT&T Reputation Tarnished by iPhone Flaws
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/184608/report_atandt_reputation_tarnished_by_iphone_flaws.html
Roger Entner, senior vice president of telecommunications research at Nielsen, claims that the iPhone has engineering
flaws with the chipset connecting to the AT&T wireless towers, resulting in inferior voice and data reliability.