'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!!

Google Vs Apple. Is Android Killing Apple? A Brief Look at Android's Effect on Apple's Growth since 2007

It seems that there is hardly anywhere on the net that I go where the argument that Android is killing Apple is put forward. I've even read that Apple will soon be heading towards insolvency like what happened two decades ago during the Mac PC Skirmish I. The belief is that Google (the new Microsoft) is raking in all the money and Apple is suffering diminishing returns.

Fact is in 2007 when Android was announced with great fanfare and plenty of prognostications of imminent Apple demise, Google was a larger company by market capitalization than Apple. Apple blew past Google in 2009. Now after 3 years or so of Android 'success' Apple is now larger than Google by a $100 billion ( $318 b vs 197 b ).

see chart:

Goog vs Aapl Growth since Android

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.