Quo vadis, Android? You were pretty much a no-show at CES last week; the Palm Pre is now the gadget geek’s new plaything. (Even I would like to use it for a bit, and my cynicism is crippling.) Mobile World Congress—sort of like CES, but specifically for cellphones—is coming up next month. Will you be there, or be square? (See what I did there?)
Australian telecom Telstra claims that its upcoming HTC, Android-based cellphone is “better and more functional” than Palm’s little upstart. Then Telstra pulls the old “oh it looks nice but it’s not available yet so maybe it’ll stink in real life.” Smacks of desperation, no?
You’ll notice the lack of Windows Mobile being mention here. I think it’s safe to say that, for everyone out there (excepting those who absolutely need to use WinMo for work), WinMo is pretty much irrelevant. It’s all iPhone, Pre and Android from here on out for Mr. Average Consumer.
More generally, how does Google & Co. counter all the goodwill that Palm earned last week? They’re gonna have to run that OSS angle real hard, I think.
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How is it that you forget that BB is still by far the most adopted smart phone platform out there?
For every iPhone I see I see 10, maybe 20 BlackBerries and that is not going to change anytime soon.
Wow thats some carefully conducted research. Over the last 18 months the global BB/iPhone ratio is 3/2 (official quarterly reports). But please let your empirical observations continue to be your guide in your analysis.
oh and that’s putting aside iPod touch sales
Or they could just say “our product actually exists. And it’s not on Sprint.”
LOL @ “via Engadget (YES, ENGADGET)”
Blackberry is like MS-DOS in 1984 when the Mac came out. If you were around back then, you’ll remember that some people actually said that a mouse wasn’t for business use (just like Blackberry users are saying that a touchscreen isn’t useful for business now). MS-DOS was popular back then, but looking back, it was obviously dated technology that would eventually be left in the dust. That’s where Blackberry is at right now. They are popular right now (just like MS-DOS was in 1984) but it’s old tech. Their UI was originally designed around a pager! And just like IBM tried to update MS-DOS with a GUI shell like TopView, you have Blackberry trying to do the same with the Storm. But underneath, it’s still the same old tired OS.