'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 ).

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Goog vs Aapl Growth since Android

CNN votes iPhone 4 tech fail of the year. The phone which has the highest customer satisfaction ranking from JD Power and Changewave

CNN has vote the iPhone 4 as number one on its list of 2010 tech failures.

As Apple drops Wikileaks app, Google keeps it. Will Apple be a Wikileaks target?

Bazinger (an investment site) staff writer Jonathan Chen speculates that Apple which this week removed the Wikileaks app from it's App Store might become a target for Wikileaks.

"  "Is it likely that Apple could become a target? Of course," said John Bumgarner, chief technology officer for the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit."Anyone that distances themselves from WikiLeaks could potentially become a cyber target."  "

Google Chrome and Nexus S Twin Daggers at Microsoft's Heart?

Rich Jaroslovsky at Bloomberg argues that Google is less a threat to Apple than to Microsoft. It's Chrome OS and Nexus S smart phone are 'twin daggers at Microsoft's heart'.


He writes "On the surface, neither seems particularly menacing.... Still, the two devices represent an enormous threat to Microsoft and its chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer. The success of Android is rapidly foreclosing Microsoft’s growth prospects as more computing is done on mobile devices. Meanwhile, Chrome OS takes dead aim at its great twin cash cows: the Windows and Microsoft Office franchises" . Google's great competitive advantage:  "Google offers Android to manufacturers at a price that Microsoft can’t beat: free."