Comments on: What will drive differentiation across Android platform providers? http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/android/2008/11/05/what-will-drive-differentiation-across-android-platform-providers/ Thoughts on Mobile Software, Development & Technologies Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:43:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Business Observations: November 11, 2008 Edition http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/android/2008/11/05/what-will-drive-differentiation-across-android-platform-providers/comment-page-1/#comment-7764 McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Business Observations: November 11, 2008 Edition Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:47:50 +0000 http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/?p=1086#comment-7764 [...] What will drive differentiation across Android platform providers? [...] [...] What will drive differentiation across Android platform providers? [...]

]]> By: Adam http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/android/2008/11/05/what-will-drive-differentiation-across-android-platform-providers/comment-page-1/#comment-7750 Adam Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:19:57 +0000 http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/?p=1086#comment-7750 I think it would come down to hardware. You would see the mobile device market begin to mimic the desktop/laptop world with most manufacturers letting someone else worry about the software for the most part and focusing on getting the most capabilities for the lowest cost. And like the regular desktop/laptop market you wouldn't have a uniformity. The Success of Android does not necessarily translate into the extinction of the iPhone; it could be that Apple's closed model is more successful in the mobile market than it has been in the computer one. The iPhone also has the advantage that web developers attempting to make their sites accessible to Android will also be helping iPhone users, because (as I understand it) both are based on the same rendering engine, WebKits. I think it would come down to hardware. You would see the mobile device market begin to mimic the desktop/laptop world with most manufacturers letting someone else worry about the software for the most part and focusing on getting the most capabilities for the lowest cost.

And like the regular desktop/laptop market you wouldn’t have a uniformity. The Success of Android does not necessarily translate into the extinction of the iPhone; it could be that Apple’s closed model is more successful in the mobile market than it has been in the computer one.

The iPhone also has the advantage that web developers attempting to make their sites accessible to Android will also be helping iPhone users, because (as I understand it) both are based on the same rendering engine, WebKits.

]]> By: Michael Martin http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/android/2008/11/05/what-will-drive-differentiation-across-android-platform-providers/comment-page-1/#comment-7740 Michael Martin Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:56:00 +0000 http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/?p=1086#comment-7740 Competition and multiple markets breeds improvement. This a lesson Mac didnt learn from the 80s/90s in the PC wars. ,Michael Martin http://www.googleandblog.com/ Competition and multiple markets breeds improvement.

This a lesson Mac didnt learn from the 80s/90s in the PC wars.

,Michael Martin
http://www.googleandblog.com/

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