It has been ordered that personal attacks will not be tolerated on these tech threads anymore.
Apple has been making consumer products for as long as anyone can remember
Many can remember before that, and the fact that they are new to the phone market.
Google had never even written an OS before
Google didn't make Android from scratch. You see, way back in 2003, a bunch of people from the likes of Orange (big cell provider) and Danger (phone systems software) joined together to found a company called Android, Inc., for the purpose of making smartphone systems software and services. Google bought Android Inc. in 2005 and retained much of the staff (Android Inc. head Rubin became the head of Android under Google). So whether or not Google had any smartphone OS experience is irrelevant. The company Google bought had a LOT of experience in just that.
Of course this doesn't count that Google is famous for having made MASSIVE contributions to Linux.
Google has never made or sold any consumer product in their entire lives.
Google has many consumer software services, several of which are leveraged by Android.
Within just 2 year after introdsicng Android, Google has managed to overtake not just the iPhone, its also overtaken the RIM in the US market
You mean together Motorola, HTC, LG, Samsung and others have managed.
There have been plenty of mobile Linux versions out there, with the self same big firms like Samsung, Motorola, TI, Qualcom etc behind them, and they went nowhere.
For good reason: they weren't very good. They were also fragmented, as the Linux marketshare was made up of several different efforts. Now they are united under one Linux effort, and it's working. It also helps that with Android you don't actually program for Linux, but Java.
Before Android, Apple had never been able to outsell RIM in even a single quarter before.
That was expected. One new phone maker on one carrier in the US selling only premium smartphones is not going to topple the established #1 maker across all carriers and price ranges in the US smartphone market that quickly.
And the Iphone was out quite a bit before Android came out.
16 months. That is "quite a bit" of time for the iPhone to you, yet you say things like "just 2 year" as a short time when talking about Android.
Tell that to your fellow Applebots. They are the Ayatoullahs of personal attcks. They have been doing that on here for years.
“Many can remember before that, and the fact that they are new to the phone market.”
The Apple Newton (a consumer product) was released over 20 years ago, long before Google was even founded.
“The Newton platform was an early personal digital assistant (PDA) hardware/software and the first tablet platform developed by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), the second platform being iOS (previously named iPhone OS), used in the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Development of the Newton platform started in 1987 and officially ended on February 27, 1998”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
“The company Google bought had a LOT of experience in just that.”
That's like saying Microsoft got plenty of OS experience when they hired David Cutler from DEC, just like lots of other firms before that hire people for their expereince in one field or the other. It doesn't change one whit the fact that Google had never written an OS before
“Of course this doesn't count that Google is famous for having made MASSIVE contributions to Linux.”
Plenty of programmers all over the world make contributions to Linux. So what?
“Google has many consumer software services, several of which are leveraged by Android.”
Where is their consumer hardware prpoduct before the Nexus One at?
“You mean together Motorola, HTC, LG, Samsung and others have managed.”
I mean Android has managed to clobber Apple in smartphone market share in just 2 years.
“For good reason: they weren't very good”
They WERE pretty good actually, and some versions had good market share in China and other Asian countries.
“They were also fragmented, as the Linux marketshare was made up of several different efforts. “,/i>
Android is merely another “fragmentation” of a version of mobile Linux.
“That was expected. “
Yeah?
“One new phone maker on one carrier in the US selling only premium smartphones is not going to topple the established #1 maker across all carriers and price ranges in the US smartphone market that quickly.”,/i>
Versions of mobile Linux had plenty of careers, plenty of hardware makers, and plenty of support from firms like TI and Qlacom and still goit easily clobbered bny the iPhone..untill Android came up.
“16 months. That is “quite a bit” of time for the iPhone to you”
That is 16 months headstart the iPhone had over Android, onl for Android to swftly ctacvh up to then overtake the IPhone..and Android is still growing at a staggering 886% annually, even after overtaking the iPhone.