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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I don’t think that the iPad is separate enough from a host PC to truly qualify for the title of ‘post-PC’ device. Android is closer but to be honest I think that the OS that will power the first true ‘post-PC’ device will be Google’s Chrome OS. While I’m personally not in love with the idea of Google hosting all my data, here we have the first OS/hardware combination developed with proper, from the ground up, ‘post-PC’ thinking.
Android smartphones, collectively, have surpassed the Apple iPhone and Research In Motion BlackBerry to become the leader in the U.S. market, a research firm says.
Devices based on the Google OS represented a 34% share of the U.S. market in the second quarter, compared to 32.1% for the BlackBerry and 21.7% for the iPhone, Canalys reported Monday. Android smartphones soared to the top on a growth rate of 851% year to year.
3 million phones in 23 days - that’s a pretty strong clip, the fastest sales of an Apple phone to date, Mashable reports. If I do the math, that’s more than 130,000 phones a day.
But did anyone in the press notice Google’s little announcement, the day before Apple launched its iPhone 4? This one? The one where Google said, and I quote:
“Every day 160,000 Android-powered devices are activated — that’s nearly two devices every second.”
Yep, that’d be 30K MORE phones a day than Apple. And my guess is that Android’s pace is accelerating, while the iPhone 4 is probably sliding downward, given how many folks bought it at launch (Mashable reports that 1.7 million were sold in first three days, so 1.3 million the next 20 days). In fact, if you do THAT math, and divide 1.3 million by 20 days, you get 65,000 iPhone 4s sold each day, which is nearly 100,000 less, PER DAY, than Android phones.
On the Palm Pre, the iPhone, and an open letter to Jon Rubinstein
nikf:
A great post looking at Palm Pre and Jon Rubinstein’s almost laughable “I’ve never used an iPhone” remark.
