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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:24:00 +0000

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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:10:35 +0000

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Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:31:58 +0000

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By: Eric Perlberg

Eric Perlberg — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:07:49 +0000

To put these Droid numbers in perspective, on the first day selling the iPhone in the UK, where you could get the iPhone on the O2 network for the past 3 years, Orange sold more than 30,000 iPhones. The UK has about 60 million people to the USA’s roughly 300 million. Not really a blow out for Droid. Providing Google continues to put dev effort in, Android will play a useful role in allowing hardware phone makers to have a product to compete against Apple but Apple’s somewhat closed system will always prove an advantage to the vast number of consumers even as tech geeks complain about lack of open platform and Apple’s sometimes heavy handed and iconoclastic approach on apps, battery, etc. All in all, good implementations of Android will spur Apple to push their development which is a good thing for all.

By: Fred Hamranhansenhansen

Fred Hamranhansenhansen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:19:01 +0000

> Apple straddles the fence
> on notions such as openness

No, they provide both sides of the fence. There are 2 independent app platforms on iPhone: proprietary CocoaTouch and open HTML5. They’re like a yin yang. For example, CocoaTouch requires approval, HTML5 does not. When Google Voice was not approved for App Store (CocoaTouch) Google said they would release an HTML5 version that will run on the iPhone anyway.

Note that the HTML5 Google Voice won’t run on any Microsoft system, which features a closed IE Web app API instead of open HTML5.

> Existence and success of
> Android will hopefully
> move Apple, and others
> more in that direction.

In spite of the fact that Apple’s native app platform leads the industry, their Web app platform also leads the industry. For example, Web apps have hardware accelerated graphics, CSS3 animations, and local storage on iPhone. Droid is Verizon’s first phone with an HTML5 browser, 3 years after iPhone/AT&T, so Apple is moving Verizon in the right direction.

By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:48:09 +0000

I don’t see the Google backed device as being an attempt at market domination so much as a line in the sand for the industry saying: If you can’t or won’t provide devices that work with open APIs (such as ours) then we will.

Apple straddles the fence on notions such as openness and by comparison with companies in the Northwest plays the role of “good guy”.

Existence and success of Android will hopefully move Apple, and others more in that direction.

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