Rapid Growth in Android Adoption Hurts Other Mobile OSes
Rapid Growth in Android Adoption Hurts Other Mobile OSes
Posted 01/04/2010 at 7:08pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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It’s no secret that Android is gaining momentum. The release of the Droid on Verizon and the upcoming Nexus One announcement have gotten people’s attention in a big way. A recent survey by ChangeWave shows us just how much Android’s star has risen in the last few months. With the millions Verizon has spent on advertising the Droid, this shouldn’t be too surprising.
In December, ChangeWave asked 4068 consumers that planned on purchasing a smartphone in the next 90 days which mobile platform they would like to purchase. They found that 21% of people planned to get an Android phone, up from only 6% in September. The iPhone still won out with 28%, but that’s down a few points from the last survey. Android’s 15-point jump seems to have also come at the expense of Windows Mobile and Palm’s WebOS, both down 3%. Blackberry weathered the Android storm well, and actually saw a small uptick in the December numbers.
Google’s brand and Verizon’s marketing seem to be combining to lure in consumers. While the iPhone isn’t about to be knocked off by Android, Palm is hanging on by a thread. Just a year ago Palm was the underdog darling of CES 2009, but they may have to pull another rabbit out of their mobile hat to make it to 2011.
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QUINTIX256
January 05, 2010 at 8:45am
Android is subsidised by advertising. There is only so much that can be paid for with "Lose Weight With This One Wierd Rule" and other such ilk Google's Adwords and DoubleClick spit out.
Linux, which is what it is based on, doesn't have an effective revenue model. How many users of stuff from the Free Software Foundation actually donate to the Free Software Fondation?
You can have your recession. I'm not participating.
lien_meat
January 05, 2010 at 2:20pm
"Linux, which is what it is based on, doesn't have an effective revenue model."
You know, that's just the silliest thing anyone can ever say...and it's really getting boring to hear.
First off, andriod, while it does run the linux kernel, doesn't really use anything else you would normally see in a normal gnu/linux install, besides a couple really basic gnu tools nearly essential to making the linux kernel at all useful, so why it would be a bad thing they they are using it is beyond me...you can't do much better than make money off of something you got for free...On top of that, just because the linux kernel itself may not have an "effective revenue model" doesn't mean companies don't leverage it to make money every day. Linux is Red Hat's bread and butter for instance...last I checked they are doing pretty well for themselves.
"How many users of stuff from the Free Software Foundation actually donate to the Free Software Fondation?"
Google actually has a really good track record here. Most everything they make(besides their search engine) they opensource or let people use for free. That's as good a donation as any. And actually if you want to get technical about it, anyone who utilizes gpl'ed code and extends it by the license should be "donating" code back...since it by license should be gpl'ed...so I'm not sure what the heck you are trying to get at here...Go a head and criticize Googles use of open source to leverage their add business all you want, but don't try pulling off saying ridiculous, unrelated things about the tools they use in their business not having effective revenue models...that's just silly. Their business in general may not turn out to have an effective revenue model, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily the fault of the tools they use.
QUINTIX256
January 05, 2010 at 2:48pm
I'll like to see you keep food on the table and a roof over your head solely by "donating" code.
You can have your recession. I'm not participating.
lien_meat
January 05, 2010 at 9:01pm
It's not like many people usually "solely" donate code (there are of course exceptions). That's a pretty silly assessment of what I said I think.
More realistically, they develop something for a (business) reason, and when they are through, decide that other people might find it useful, although it may possibly not just suit their needs outright, and they don't feel like marketing it as a product, so they opensource it so people can use it and modify it as they please to suit their specific needs.
Other projects are invested in/sponsored by companies, but are kept open source as to more easily meet the needs of all possible parties involved. Kde, apache, mysql (heh, if it survives now), mozilla, are all pretty good examples of this kind of open source thinking.
I'm not saying either of these are great models of making money, but they sure as hell are working for some people, and in my opinion, you'd be foolish to dismiss the open source business model completely.
Nobody just writes and open sources code trying to make a living doing it, and I find it demeaning/offensive that you suggested that's what I was eluding to.
mattman059
January 05, 2010 at 5:51am
Maybe this will help ole apple out haha..
or maybe they'll just delay it again and gain yet another "Fail" sticker
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