'Open' will ALWAYS Beat 'Closed' Myth. The 'Clueless' Apple-haters Cheering Not Realizing iPhone rising to 41% of Worldwide Smartphone Profits

Just scanning the web I see a whole bunch of Android fans and assorted Apple-haters cheering (mindlessly) as apparently Android smart- phone market share rises vs iPhone.

Note: that's smartphone, not total iOS devices. Smartphone numbers don't include about 50% of iOS which is on iPads and iPod Touches. Actually latest from Google and Apple quarterly financials released in January (and not analysts estimates) puts Android activations at 300,000 and iOS at 366,000 a day.

This 'market share' gains has led to this myth : 'Open'  Many OEMs will always beat 'Closed-lone-wolf-Apple'. (Questionable how open Android actually is as many Droid phones are locked down etc but that's a topic for another day)

Always beat Apple? Well perhaps I should remind people of iPod!!

How does Steve Jobs live on $1 a year when he doesn't sell any Apple shares and why Tim Cook is walking home with $59 million.

It was revealed last week from Apple's 2011 Proxy Statement that Steve Jobs the iconic CEO of Apple took home his usual 1 buck a year salary and that Tim Cook was awarded a total of $59 million in salary and bonuses.

Steve Jobs' Jet N2N (Photo Coolspotters)

Steve Jobs got no bonuses and basically his only perk was expenses for his Gulstream jet which came up to $248,000. He was awarded the jet in 1999. Steve Jobs has a $1 a year salary since his return to Apple in 1997. He has not been awarded any new shares since 2003. He owns about 5.5 million in Apple shares now which is valued around $2 billion. He has not sold any Apple shares since his return except some for tax purposes. 


So what does Steve Jobs live on?

NPR on the Steve Jobs - Jonathan Ive partnership at Apple.

An interesting look at Steve Jobs' partnership with Jonathan Ive Apple's chief designer at NPR, there's transcript here and the audio file. Jonathan Ive is of course the famous lead designer of various pieces of ground breaking Apple hardware since the radical candy colored imacs that started Apple's renaissance to practically everything Apple today including the 'retina' screen iPhone 4. Ive is a cornerstone  of Apple's success.

Out of 3 WSJ Mossberg's Best of Year Products Apple wins one and ties another

Walt Mossberg tech columnist for the Wall Street Journal has put out his Best and Worst Products of 2010.


Here they are:


Walt’s Best Products of 2010
1. Apple iPad
2. 4G wireless networks
3. Apple iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S


Walt’s Worst Products of 2010
1. Dell Streak
2. Google TV
3. TiVo Premiere

1.5 m Windows Phones sold on sixty carriers vs 1 m iPhones on one carrier

On Dec 21 Achim Berg, VP of business and marketing for Windows Phone 7 announced "We are pleased that phone manufacturers sold over 1.5 million phones in the first six weeks, which helps build customer momentum and retail presence." WP7 is of course the major overhaul of Microsoft's phone platform, a completely new OS from the end of line Windows Mobile. It was designed to take on Google's Android and Apple's iPhone.


1.5m sold in 6 weeks is pretty dismal.

Earliest for Verizon iPhone is February?

Many people seem to be waiting for the Verizon iPhone. According to this post from Tom Kaneshige the earliest it would be is February. Why?  According to Kaneshige one big reason is "If a Verizon iPhone came out in January—that is, inside of the 30-day return policy—Verizon customers would return their Christmas phones for iPhones, leaving Verizon stuck with crushing inventory."


Squeeze Da Apple: Yeah, we think so too, if Verizon had a January iPhone launch they were be inundated with Christmas phone returns. 


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