By Greg Mills
The tech industry is collectively scratching its head trying to figure out just what the Google purchase of Motorola Mobility will mean. The other Android handset makers are now worried Google will favor Motorola with advanced features and that they will be left out of the loop. Uncertainty in business is a powerful thing.
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By Greg Mills
Apple is certainly on a roll. As the stock market has gyrated the last few days due to the downgrade of US Treasury debt, Apple replaced Mobile/Exon as the most valuable company in the world by market cap. Over the last week or so, Apple got Samsung’s new touch screen tablet banned in Australia and Europe. HTC took a hit in the US International Trade Commission and may also face import bans on its Android handsets in the US market.
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Worldwide annual media tablet shipments are expected to top 120 million units in 2015. Android media tablets have collectively taken 20% market share away from the iPad in the last 12 months, according to the ABI Research group (http://www.abiresearch.com).
However, no single vendor using Android (or any other OS) has been able to mount a significant challenge against it.
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Apple’s share of the global mobile phone market (smartphones and others) almost doubled year-over-year in the second quarter of 2011, from 2.4% to 4.6%, according the Gartner research group (http://www.gartner.com). This puts Apple in fourth place among mobile phone vendors, behind Nokia, Samsung and LG.
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By Greg Mills
The legal problems the Android OS is facing over patent infringement is certain to help alternative smartphone platforms. The large market share Android now holds may soon be divided into market segments going to surviving smartphone platforms. If Apple manages to crush or seriously stumble Google’s legally indefensible Android platform, the iOS is sure to be the biggest winner. iOS developers will come out on top.
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