Android conquering Smartphone Market

[Vitticeps]

That will never happen. Android isn't a single phone, it's a platform with a rapidly growing number of different phones. iPhone is for the most part one phone (I know some accessories are generation specific). That makes it MUCH easier for 3rd parties to make accessories for it.

 

[FunN4Lo]

What makes it much easier for accessory producers is the number of phones in the market. Accessory production will follow the numbers and the money. Right now the money and numbers is on iPhone. We can watch what happens for the future

 

[Vitticeps]

I see what you're saying too but I still stand by what I said. Combined, there are over 40 million iPhones and iPod Touches sold. For the most part they can all share the same accessories.

I'm saying that no single Android phone will hit the 40 million mark. A single phone's lifespan just isn't long enough. Combine that with manufacturers changing the design with every new phone and needing new accessories for each one and you'll never see your accessory isle dominated by a single phone's accessories.

Just not as good a gauge as it sounds when you think about what goes into it.

 

[Darkseider]

Accessories will be produced en masse for the most popular of the Android devices. The not so popular not so much. With that being said it is just accessories and will have no real impact on the eventual domination of the smartphone market by Android. The reason is solely due to the huge and constantly evolving selection of devices, different form factors and multiple carriers. Everyone that wants to try an Android can and at whatever cost of entry they choose from whatever carrier they are on.

 

[w5det]

This really is an unfair comparison, Apple only puts their OS on 1 phone, there own iphone.

Android OS is on a handful of devices.

Same as comparing Windows OS to OSX. Everybody and their brother builds computers that are going to run Windows, as Apple using their OS only on their own.

You can call this Apples fault if you like, but its still not a good comparison either way.

Gosh, Steve,

Waaaah!

You didn't have a problem when your iPhone was top dog. I guess if you weren't so paranoid, you could have shared with other mfr's, too, but then you wouldn't have anything to cry about.

Thanks for sharing.

Skyhawker, Doug

 

[AsianBob]

Something else to think about is IF VZW does get a 4G iPhone in 2012 what are Android handsets going to be like? Using the EVO 4G as an example. It is June 2010 when it releases. Two years later and VZW might get a 4G iPhone? What will the 4G Android be like on the VZW network seeing that the EVO 4G is a reality NOW?

Agree. Android hardware has already leaped the iPhone. The iPhone to be released in June seems to be still catching up in terms of hardware. Snapdragon level processor, higher resolution screen, better (subjective) camera. With the ability to save to the SD card coming in 2.2, there isn't anything hardware-wise the iPhone has that will trump Android phones.

Google's pulled some really cool tricks during this year's I/O that Apple (for whatever reason) hasn't bothered to implement yet. We already got some sneak-peaks into Gingerbread, and that's just Q3!

On a related note, every time I pick up one of my roommates' iPhones (one 3G and one 3GS), the screen pixelation compared to my Droid is really noticeable.