That ’s veracious , the “ Android versus iOS is Windows versus the Mac all over again ! ” argument is back ! It ’s the zombie argument that wo n’t die ! It keeps coming back to corrode your brain ! After trying to beat it to death with a baseball at-bat ( we must have forgottenthe dual tap ) , we ’ll take a look at how the RIM PlayBook is doing . And we ’ll laugh . Ohhh , how we ’ll laugh . Finally , the Macalope refuse to babble out about that person again this week ! You have sex the one !
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Another week , another piece abouthow iOS is doomed because Android is your new young man now . This meter , it ’s thanks to the fact that Android ’s market share increase by 7 percent in the three months end in February , while iOS ’s only went up 0.2 percent . Take it away , Business Insider ’s Henry Blodget !
Are Apple Taurus in good order that Apple has an insurmountable hold on the “ premium ” segment of the market place and that it does n’t count who has the other 75 % ?
Are the fanatical spiritual zealot — who’d grease one’s palms a boxful full of deer check and put them in their ears if Steve Jobs told them to — right that it ’s gain that companies hightail it off of instead of market place share ? It ’s a puzzler !
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To answer Blodget ’s rhetorical and stunned question , it certainly does n’t matter to Apple . At least not until 1 Infinite Loop becomes so farce with cash that it ’s punishing to move around . And to Apple ’s client it only count if developer start snub iOS . You know , the developer who keep saying metre after sentence that it’sbetter develop for iOSand that theiOS versions of their software have a better return . Those developers .
Other than that ? No , securities industry parcel does not matter . As a issue of fact , as Mac user know , a lowly share might even be better , since malicious coders lean to place the platform with more users .
So these Android gains should scare the bejeezus out of Apple shit — and Apple itself .
Why ?
fit in to Blodget , developer will constellate to the weapons platform with the large user base . Apparently despite the fact that those users do n’t corrupt as many apps .
The Android gains matter because engineering science platform markets tend to standardise around a single dominant platform ( see Windows in PCs , Facebook in societal , Google in hunting ) .
As has beenpointed outbyseveral people , this is just ill-timed . Yes , it pass off in PCs and hunting . And telecasting cassettes . And mayonnaise whenBest Foods bought Hellmann ’s . However , there are plenty of comeback - case , the most appropriate being game consoles .
But , as they do n’t fit into the narrative , let ’s just discard them !
( If you admit iPod trace in the calculation , Apple ’s share has actually fall ) .
Blodget ’s comparing apple and oranges a bit ; the timeframe in the Dan Frommer art object he links to is yr - over - class , not the last three months , which is what the comScore numbers look at .
But it ’s lawful : If you throw in the iPod touching , iOS ’s share does fall year over year . How can that be ? Because while iPod touch gross sales did grow a whopping 27 percent ( or “ only grew 27 percent ” if you work at Business Insider ) , Android sales develop more .
Hmm . Why might iPod cutaneous senses sales maturation bomb to keep up with Android in the last year ? It ’s almost like Apple introducedsomething else with outstanding growth . Something withthe same development program , just with a larger screen . Hmm , what could it have been ? OH , WELL .
Yeah , so , if you include tablets , iOSincreasedits market share from 26.95 percent to 27.49 percent ( assuming afourth one-fourth lozenge marketplace share of 75 percent for the iPad and 22 percent for Android , which may overstate it for Android since Samsung , the majority of the Android - based shipments , subsequently backtracked on its public figure ) . Still , there were about 1.87 million more Android - based twist shipped in the quarter than iOS - free-base gimmick .
GigaOM ’s Charles Jade points outthat the most recent comScore number — the ace Blodget is seek to make hay with — only admit the first three weeks of Verizon iPhone sales , which seem to account for a decent uptick in the iPhone ’s numbers . Further , Apple ’s increase was the large of any ironware manufacturer . So , while iOS may not have describe for as many units deal as the unstructured and somewhat unwieldy blob colloquially advert to as “ Android , ” the iPhone saw a bigger increment than any other telephone set .
Look , do n’t take any individual comparison too in earnest . Becausethings change , people change , hairstyle vary , interest rates waver . Market parcel is only an indicator . What matters is not being marginalized to the pointedness where you do n’t get developer attention — and it hardly seems like that ’s going to occur to iOS any metre soon . Quite the opposite .
Of naturally none of this will stop Blodget and the remainder from continuing to make the same zombi argument .
Sucks to be RIM
The Macalope hates making predictions . He ’s not very salutary at them because , well , they ’re strong . The technology industry has a portion of moving parts . OK , few now that strong state drives are bring in popularity , but you know what he think of .
That ’s why he ’s relieved to see that one of his foretelling for 2011 — that the RIM PlayBook would be delay — has already come up to fruition .
As it flex out , some of the delay may be due to Apple havingput down some of its mammoth piles of cash — you recognize , the cash some people were say the company should give out in dividends — to secure supplies of central components , such as touchscreens .
What ? ! Apple ’s not bet bonnie ! They ’re hog all the screens ! And they entirely catch the rope that time on the tetherball court , which is like an flash out , but they didn’ttakean out , and UGH ! SO UNFAIR !
Yeah , well , tough beans ( except about the tetherball thing — that is altogether an out ) . This is how the plot is play .
But , let ’s be good . How many screens does RIM postulate ? Like … five ? Would that be good ? They can likely get those . Even the super - awesome iPad - kill Xoommay have only betray 100,000 units . confessedly , it did n’t include cool features likenot having e - mail . Hey , RIM ’s just give youInbox Zeroright out of the loge !
Anyway , it may not all be mean ol’ Apple ’s fault . Because , soft ! What light through yonder screen - RIM - can’t - feel - a - supply - for breaks?It is a stuttering Flash video , and Adobe is the fail !
Oh , dear , dear , honey . This is silly . It ’s like watching two dinosaurs climb over each other trying to get out of a sea dog endocarp .
Except less tragic and more laughable .
“It’s all marketing.”
Now , a deal of masses are probably hop that the Macalope is going to speak aboutGoogle ’s “ course correction ” on how “ undefended ” Android is(read : “ open up , now with 100 pct more approval required ! ” ) andAndy Rubin ’s Department of Defense of thisas “ pff , no bountiful deal , business as usual , nothing to see here , move along ( just remember to get your TPS account in on time ) . ”
But if he did that then he ’d have to lecture about a sure Android justifier who’sapparently not committed enough torealopen sourceto call Google on its lax use of a word that ’s supposed to mean something .
And , after the last two weeks , he ’s candidly tired of talking about that person so he ’s not conk out to touch this one .
Other than the three paragraph above .
