Android isnt surging just because Apple is letting it | ZDNet.
I agree with this article and definitely take issue (as does this author) with the fact that iPhone’s user experience is superior to Android’s. I completely, 100% disagree. I had an iPhone given me to use for work and really didn’t take to it very well. It was an early version, but I found the lack of simple things like multi-tasking, no cut-n-paste, no Flash support really disconcerting. Consequently, when left to my own devices (pun intended), I went and got an Android Incredible. Awesome! This behaves exactly as I expect my mobile device to work.
Last week, I took delivery on a new iPad and again ran into many of the same frustrations I had with the iPhone only now magnified as I was spoiled after several months with my Android. I was also surprised to find that while there are a great many apps on the Apple Store, it appears from my searching that a higher % of them cost money while there is a huge amount of free content on Android’s store. Now I do love my iPad because of the form factor, but woe unto Apple when a similar form-factor Android device comes available.
Long story short, Android is earning its way, but Apple has given it a hand up by it’s AT&T exclusivity contract.
P.S. Oh, and AT&T morons… ya want high margin sales, then perhaps stocking iPad accessories would be a good place to start. I had to drive by probably a dozen AT&T stores to get to the Apple store to find accessories for my new iPad after stopping at the first 2 AT&T stores and being told “go to the Apple store”.
