[SmokingJoe]

Well, that didn't take long.

[BlessedBeGod]

What’s the adavantage of Droid over iPhone?

[Psycho_Bunny]

Apple isn’t worried because the iPad is”THE new game changer.”

lol

[Retired Greyhound]

Droids will take over the world soon.

[pgyanke]

I don’t have any statistics to back up this guess but... I’ll be that most would-be purchasers of the iPhone are wisely waiting for the next one due to be announced next month. I have the 3g version... and I can’t wait!

[Thurston_Howell_III]

On top of the flying lawsuits, having to deal with the blow back from having that editor’s house ransaked by the police,their public argument with Adobe and the new scrutiny into their trade practices, this has been a tough 2 weeks for Steve-o and crew.

[zeebee]

Android is an OS that is running several phones right now, from at least two different companies. iPhone OS runs in only one phone. Apples and oranges, IMO.

But to me the problem with Android is it cannot do hands-free voice dialing and that is the deal breaker.

[pblax8]

DDRROOOOOOIDDDD

Tried both side by side downloading large attachments in emails. Downloading web content. Droid was by far faster and it’s open source OS makes it much easier and more competitive for apps.

Iphones dont work very well with my companies networks and servers. Droid was much easier to synch with my office computer.

The phone also has a real keyboard not virtual like Iphone.

[tx_eggman]

Research in Motion retains No. 1 rank with 36 pct share

2 weeks into my Blackberry 9700 and loving it.

[SmokingJoe]

RIM could be next.

[FredZarguna]

I code for both, and I will say that in the last several weeks the hatred for Apple among developers has become palpable. Even some Objective-C programmers acknowledge that Apple's decision to control the developer tool-chain with a lot of nonsense babble about "app quality," "multitasking robustness," blah-blah-blah is a restraint of trade and quite EVIL indeed.

In the long run, I believe this is the end of the iPhone as a dominant platform, and it will settle into the 10-15% market typical for Apple: the land of die-hard fanboiz who're willing to pay 25-50% more for hardware than it's actually worth. There are millions more C#, C++, and Java developers than there are Objective-C coders, and those developers are going to code for 'Droid first from now on, using the tools they're familiar with, then try to retrofit to the 90's toolset (IB and Objective-C) that Apple provides as an afterthought. Amusingly, Apple isn't even capable of compiling the code it dictates developers must use: the compiler is gcc.

Apple's lock-down-control-everything approach has been challenged by an open source platform once before: in the early 1980's. Apple's fail in that case is the most epic of all time: they went from market domination to "who dey?" in the space of months. Job's learned nothing and now they are going to lose again. Ironically, the only thing that really saved Apple from complete destruction in the 90's for their fascist business practices was Adobe. Now little Stevie Hitler has alienated them, too. If the FTC, SEC, or DOJ do not take action against iEvil, Adobe will.

I'm sure the fanboiz will be arriving shortly to flame away. All I can say is, I make a great living off Apple, but now that it's fallen to No. 3, I'll be making even more money from 'Droid.

[reagan_fanatic]

Smartphones, which allow consumers to surf the web, send email and run specialized applications on wide, color screens, are increasingly replacing no-frills cell phones for many U.S. consumers

Along with the corresponding fees as well. As hard as it is to believe, there are still some of us neanderthals out here who still use a cell phone to *GASP* talk on.

[Swordmaker]

NPD Stats show AndroidOS smartphones take number 2 spot from iPhones in US. PING!

IPhone Ping!

If you want on or off the Apple/Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Wake me when any single Android phone passes the single iPhone currently being sold.

The real losers are Symbian and Microsoft. Apple’s doing just fine, haters.

[stewks]

We can't even buy an Iphone in this part of the country...relatives that visit have a useless piece of hardware in their hands until they get back to AT&T country. I own an Ipod touch and a Droid phone. The droid phone would have likely been an Iphone except for Apple's exclusive contract with AT&T. Now that I have Droid I've rarely used the Ipod. Biggest Droid downside is no direct outlook syncing.

[Skooz]

The Droid rules. Period. I’m posting from mine right now.