Comments on: The Meaning of Droid

By: The Apple Licensing Myth | Monday Note

The Apple Licensing Myth | Monday Note — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:46:35 +0000

[...] Apple could indeed end up “losing” the smartphone market to Android, just as it “loses” the PC market today, making more money than Dell and HP combined, they with a 33% market share and Apple with less than 10%. (More details in the November 1st, 2009 Monday Note.) [...]

By: Droid and Android | Monday Note

Droid and Android | Monday Note — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:01:10 +0000

[...] there is ample evidence Apple puts profits before market share. As we saw two weeks ago, with less than 10% market share it makes twice as much money as HP and Dell who, combined, command [...]

By: heeatseverything

heeatseverything — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:32:15 +0000

Come on it’s the 13th already. When are you going to “get one ASAP and report”?

By: Elishia Windfohr

Elishia Windfohr — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:46:16 +0000

We really do ned some good smartphones that actually work! tired of thm getting hot etc, I have hope for the blackberry though. great post though

Elishia Windfohr

By: Jahangir Naina

Jahangir Naina — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:59:44 +0000

I think a lot of folks discount the level of integration and polish needed to make a truly useable consumer targetted smartphones. Apple has UI finesse in their DNA and knows how to make the whole kit, giving their users “it just works” level of product purity. The Android model is similar to the WinMo model where the final integration is done by the OEM/ODM, carrier or some MVNO outfit. The end result being each iteration of an Android or WinMo phone has enough of a difference to fragment the all-important “platform”.

Give it time, the Android user base WILL get fragmented. Fragmentation along the lines of SW version (remember some earlier Android phones cannot be field updateable for firmware), custom UI shells/themes, customizations, etc. Second, the Android suffers from a bad design decision in that it only has 512MB for both the OS and apps to play. This WILL limit applications beyond only the simple. Third, google chose to use a Java VM model to allow for HW/CPU abstraction, which results in slow(er) apps. The iPhone will not suffer as much in terms of abstraction, and will be truly able to grow not just the userbase, but also the platform.

By: Per Bothner

Per Bothner — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:42:55 +0000

This sentence seems rather questionable: “It is significantly harder to write applications for the Blackberry, it uses Java and, as a result, the applications have less “expressive powers” than with other operating systems”. ‘ First, I’m not sure why you think using Java gives applications “less expressive powers”. Secondly, you realize Android also uses Java?

By: srinio

srinio — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:04:34 +0000

Hey thanks for this post, it has been very helpful to me. Thank you very much.

By: Google’s Disruption Leads to Commoditization | CloudAve

Google’s Disruption Leads to Commoditization | CloudAve — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:11:29 +0000

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By: tom b

tom b — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:21:06 +0000

Right now, the iPhone is priced to sell. I expect this will prevent Droid from stealing share. Also, in the US, Droid is tied to Verizon, a CDMA network, and a carrier more despised than ATT. Verizon always cripples their phones; they will do it with Droid, as well. I don’t see a winning strategy for Droid, long term, because of the first point, economies of scale.

By: Verizon Droid

Verizon Droid — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:15:03 +0000

We think that the Droid will be a great device.
Verizon Droid fansite

By: Richard Howell

Richard Howell — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:00:29 +0000

I think the “correct” last link should be: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-self-service-ads-are-ridiculously-easy-to-make-2009-10#go-to-facebookcomadvertising-1

By: Youssef Rahoui

Youssef Rahoui — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:54:23 +0000

A brilliant overview, thanks.

PS: the last link does not work.

By: Tim Coldwell

Tim Coldwell — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:55:56 +0000

Yet more disruption is the meaning of Droid. Google will give you ad splits on search if you [carrier] use it. That’s right; Google will pay you to use their mobile OS.

http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/10/29/google-redefines-disruption-the-%E2%80%9Cless-than-free%E2%80%9D-business-model/