'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!!

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

Forbes: "Apple and the Mac: No iPad Cannibalization in sight"

Bruce Upbin of Forbes wrote : "People have been wondering if and when the iPad is going to finally start cannibalizing Mac sales. It hasn’t happened yet. In the year of the iPad’s release, Mac sales continue to break records. Apple sold 3.89 million Macs in the fourth quarter, up 27% over the 2009’s fourth quarter. It sold 3.47 million in the third quarter, up 33% over 2009. The fact that quarterly growth rate is slowing is suggestive, of what I’m not sure.

Steve Jobs is Financial Times 'Person of the Year'

AppleInsider reports that Steve Jobs has been voted UK's Financial Times person of the year. Financial Times considers Steve Jobs unveiling of the iPad as capping "the most remarkable comeback in modern business history"


"Of all the fingers that Apple has poked into Microsoft's eyes over the years, none can have rankled as much as the early success of the iPad," the report reads. "Mr. Gates himself championed a tablet computer nearly a decade ago, though the stylus needed to write on its screen and the PC-like interface generated little demand."

Charged Insider Trader says even mentioning the prototype iPad codename K48 could get you fired

Recently four people were arrested in a probe into insider trading in tech companies. One of them Walter Shimoon worked in Flextronics which builds for Apple.  Apparently Shimoon was privy to various Apple trade secrets including that the new iPhone had two cameras, the iPad had none etc. Apple is well known for it's fanaticism on secrecy. Shimoon's revelations to the Feds sheds a glimmer on Apple's security policies. According to Shimoom if you worked for Apple you could get fired even if you just mentioned the codename of the yet un-released iPad which was K48. 


More on this by Larry Dignan at ZDnet
and by John Brownlee at Cult of the Mac.