Hopefully you have read several posts I have posted this week. This one on Microsoft and Android and this one on Google vs. Android. These posts are building blocks for a foundation I am laying to help our readers understand critical things about this market going forward. The smartphone market is the single largest product … Continue reading Google, Android, AOSP, iOS and the Global Smartphone Market
One of the more interesting narratives that is starting to become mainstream is the knowledge that there are versions of Google’s Android operating system which compete directly with Google’s Android operating system. Google offers to the world a clean, and updated, version of Android as an open source code base (AOSP). There has been an … Continue reading Google vs. Android
According to this report Microsoft is pulling in healthy revenue from Android. We knew that Microsoft was holding on to patents which many Android OEMs are using and now paying Microsoft a fee. Microsoft may very well be making nearly as much and in some cases more than Google off Android. Microsoft makes money off … Continue reading Microsoft and Android
Well, that was a heckuva week. Google sells Motorola for billions less than they paid for it. Apple sells millions fewer iPhones than nearly everyone expected, then directs guidance lower. Facebook becomes a mobile first company, for real this time. Amazon investors prove they don’t quite have unlimited patience. Yahoo remains last decade’s news. Microsoft … Continue reading The Death Of iPhone. The Death Of Android. The Rebirth Of Facebook.
Android is turning up in the strangest places. The Google mobile operating system, alresady the numerically dominant platform for smartphones and tablets worldwide, is making a move to desktops and laptops. It’s not clear that this is something Google envisioned or much desires. Google has had a fair amount of success with PC-like Chromebooks using … Continue reading CES: Android’s Big Business Bid
During this holiday week, we wanted to re-showcase some of the most read columns of 2013. Whether you read them before or are seeing them for the first time, enjoy some of the most read columns of our site from the past year. This is the first of three articles looking at how we measure … Continue reading Most Read Columns of 2013: Android’s Market Share is Literally a Joke
Benedict Evans has a must read slide deck from his mobile is eating the world presentation. I’m going to piggyback on his title a little and tackle the narrative that Android is eating the world. It is the narrative that is hard to escape and it would be a significant point if it was a … Continue reading Android is Eating the World
You may or may not have caught an interesting change Google has made with KitKat. Google is no longer including Chrome as a part of the Google services license. Meaning that the Chrome browser will not come pre-installed on Android devices running KitKat. OEMs in essence can now choose to license the Chrome browser as a … Continue reading Google’s Android Bait and Switch
In the most recent episode of my podcast with Benedict Evans we discussed the post PC era and Android’s role in this post PC era. We touch on a number of points but during the course of the conversation an interesting thought hit me. While many look at what Android is doing in phones, what … Continue reading Android as the Platform For Commodity Electronics
He is known simply as Charbax. You can find him on Twitter, on Youtube, and very often in the comments section of any post that trashes Android. He is in my opinion the biggest Android fanboy — fan, fanatic, believer, evangelist — in the world. His numerous first-hand, homebrew videos showcase the incredible innovation occurring across the … Continue reading Stop Believing Apple Invents Stuff! Where I Interview The Biggest Android Fanboy In The World.
No. Neither Android nor Windows Phone, apart or in concert, have any hope of defeating iPhone. None. For the foreseeable future, iPhone will remain the world’s most popular, most profitable smartphone by a wide margin. The best apps, the first apps, the most popular accessories, the lion’s share of the industry’s profits all will belong … Continue reading Do Android Or Windows Phone Have Any Hope Of Defeating iPhone?
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” ― Maya Angelou I want Windows Phone to succeed. More than that, I want Android to fail. I hate Android. There, I said it. Yes, I am a market analyst, detached, and I have absolutely no stake … Continue reading Windows Phone And Android Hate
I have been connecting compute devices to my TVs for nearly 20 years, the first being a Compaq Presario hooked to a massive RCA 35” tube TV via an NTSC converter. Back then, there wasn’t online audio or video content worth streaming, but there were games like “You Don’t Know Jack” that were a lot … Continue reading Is Chromecast Really Android’s Attempt at an Apple TV?
Alarm Bells Should Be Ringing At Apple: It’s Getting Absolutely Creamed By Android, Which Now Controls ~80% Of The Smartphone Market ~ Jay Yarrow, Business Insider No, it’s not. Definition of an oxymoron: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction Fact #1: No version of Android dominates mobile OS market … Continue reading “Android Dominance” Is An Oxymoron
For platform providers it is important to not just understand your customers needs but also how they behave while on your platform. Most companies I come across know a fair bit about their customers but not much about how their customers behave while using their solutions. It is with this thinking that I want to … Continue reading Being Bearish on Android. A Fragmentation Analysis
We are hearing from a lot of vendors that the idea of dual booting Windows and Android is a hot topic of discussion these days. Asus and Samsung both have laptops on the market that include Windows 8 and Android and the thinking behind this is that Windows Metro apps have less than 100K in … Continue reading Android Apps on Windows PC’s via Dual Boot- Are they DOA?
Disraeli is reputed to have said that there were three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics. “Lies, damned lies, and statistics” is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments. ~ Wikipedia Comparing the market share of Android phones to the market share of … Continue reading Comparing The Market Share of Android Phones To The iPhone Is A D@mned Lie
To hear both Sundar Pinchai, head of Android and Chrome at Google, and Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola Mobility, tell it, Motorola is just another Android OEM despite being a wholly owned Google subsidiary. This may be technically true at the moment, but it cannot be true for the long run. And just what Google … Continue reading Google, Motorola, and the Future of Android
Author’s note: Many of the commentators aren’t even reading the article but, instead, are basing their comments on the article’s title alone. Let me throw one final analogy into the mix in the hopes of clarifying my position: Apple is in the dairy business and Android is selling meat. Apple has the cream (pun intended) … Continue reading Google’s Android Activations Are A Lot Less Cash Cow And A Lot More Bull. And That’s OK.
I’ll admit it, I have a love-hate relationship with Android. I love it as a phone choice, love it on 7” tablets, but think it provides a lousy experience on anything 10” display and above. I’m not alone as Android has captured 75% of the smartphone market but hasn’t had big success in the 10” … Continue reading Are the Latest 10”+ Android Devices DOA?
Judging by the comments on John Kirk’s post “Android’s Market Share Is Literally a Joke,” we are well into another operating system religious war. As is always the case in religious wars, it’s tough to make sense of the the arguments. As Harry McCracken notes at Time Techland, we can’t agree who is winning because … Continue reading Apple vs. Android: The Open Factor
This is the first of three articles looking at how we measure – and mis-measure – who is “winning” in the mobile sector. Article one focuses on market share and was inspired by an article written by Bill Shamblin, entitled: “Chasing Smartphone Market Share Is A Chump’s Game.” Article two will focus on the proper … Continue reading Android’s Market Share Is Literally A Joke
The initial title of this article was going to be “How HTC can compete with Samsung.” Then I decided to branch it out and make a point that is relevant for HTC but also for all Android handset vendors looking to compete with Samsung. The public learned this week that HTC is losing key personnel … Continue reading How Android Vendors Can Compete With Samsung
Yesterday, Google held its I/O keynote address. Ben Thompson of “stratēchery” has written an excellent article entitled: THE ANDROID DETOUR. I highly encourage you to take the time to read it. I’m going to re-state and build upon his thoughts here. 1) In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone. Google’s then CEO, Eric Schmidt was a … Continue reading Google’s Android And The Path Not Taken
John Paczkowski over at AllThingsD covered a report written by Carl Howe, VP of the Yankee Group. Carl makes a bold statement, indicating iPhone ownership in the US will exceed Android US ownership by 2015. Carl has developed an analogy using the idea of a leaky bucket. In short, he proposes that if platforms are … Continue reading Android’s Leaky Bucket
