Insipid and irrational politics are symptomatic to a company trapped by rigidity of response to asymmetric attack (and you can quote me on that.)
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Nokia, the world’s leader in total mobile phone sales seems to be having new problems deciding on its OS strategy. There were some murmurings about embracing Android last summer, but Nokia seems [...]

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Nice summary: Essentially, Android isn’t Google’s phone platform, it’s an open alternative for failing hardware makers to use in place of Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Linux to create the same type of convoluted, fractionalized, and poorly integrated products they’re already making. This is also why Symbian, Windows Mobile, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson are all failing [...]

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Let me do the math:
If Moto sold 100k units on the opening weekend (2.5 days), we know that they got 10% of opening weekend sales for both iPhone 3G and 3G(S).
But what should trouble those who care is that iPhone outsold Droid on the very same Droid opening weekend.
Consider that last quarter 7.4 million iPhones [...]

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This prediction says that WinMo and Symbian are out at Samsung. Not a big surprise there.
The real news is some new “proprietary” OS is to take a majority share of the portfolio moving Android out of the picture gradually after 2011.
You will infer from my previous comments that the reason any deep pocketed vendor [...]

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On April 9th, 2007 Apple announced that the 100 millionth iPod had been sold, making the iPod the fastest selling music player in history. The first iPod was sold five and a half years earlier, in November 2001.
Three months after that 100 millionth iPod, Apple sold the first iPhone.
My prediction is that sometime next [...]

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The Motorola Droid will be the most powerful Android phone to date when it launches on November 6, 2009. However, the device still features the same shortcomings of all other Android phones. The Droid ships with a 512 MB ROM which contains only 256 MB available for app storage.
Google does not support installing apps to [...]

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One of the main reasons why UIs are unequally inferior are not only the way you build apps (open vs. closed hw/sw system) and the SDK itself but also marginal to non-existing UI standards, no ready-made drag & drop UI items, variations in carrier- & device firmware, hard- & software input, screen sizes, international customizations, [...]

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In the sense that open always wins, that may be. But by then Apple will have moved on to the next thing. Open only wins when the underlying service is a commodity for which improvements (other than price) will not be valued.
In my way of speaking, openness is semantically equivalent to “modular” and [...]

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The competition situation looks reasonable on a logarithmic scale…App Catalogs.key

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Any judgement on comparing Apple’s app store strategic positioning versus its competition requires a broader view of the product and market.

The new “mobile computing” use case that smartphones try to serve is not going to be satisfied with solutions that are built from modular components.  The reason is simple: as the solutions are not good [...]

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