Google: We’ll far outsell iPhone; our SDK lets you do more
14 March 2008 - 9:50If Google’s Rich Miner was a developer, he’d be coding for the iPhone; however, he’s actually Group Manager for Mobile Platforms, and as such is more interested in boosting Android’s profile with confident predictions that handsets based on the platform will wildly outsell Apple’s cellphone.
“Once you have devices out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there’s a much larger potential market on Android than for the iPhone. [Apple is] a single manufacturer, it’s targeted at a particular demographic, and it falls far short of the 1 billion mobile phones sold every year worldwide” Rich Miner, Google
“There are things I saw people doing with the first version of the Android SDK that it seems like you can’t do with the iPhone at least at the moment” Rich Miner, Google
Strong words, you could say, from a company yet to ship a single handset to a consumer; last month, Google revealed that the Android SDK had been downloaded 750,000 times since its November launch. Apple’s iPhone SDK was downloaded 100,000 times in its first four days of availability.
According to Miner, of the four main handset manufacturers signed up to Android - Motorola, LG, Samsung and HTC - one is expected to reach the market with a device before the others; industry sources suggest that will be a smartphone variant from HTC.
Still, after roundly critiquing the iPhone’s sales, sales potential and the capacity of its SDK, Miner saved some love for last:
“It’s not a competitive thing — it’s great that people are finally building tools so all of these third-party applications can be built and get out there. If I were a developer] I’d certainly be looking at the iPhone, and if you believe there will be lots of Android phones out there, as we do, I’d be developing for both platforms” Rich Miner, Google
Google: We’ll far outsell iPhone; our SDK lets you do more - PHONE Magazine
4 Comments | Tags: Android, Android Community, Android SDK, Google, Google Phone, SDK
19 Mar 2008 - 20:02
For most consumers, it is the iphone’s innovative touchscreen experience that sells the product. The future phones MUST have that innovative edge in order to compete. No one is giving a clear description on what the Android platform will do in detail.
Really think about it… what is pushing the iphone?
The touchscreen and internet experiene (duh)
09 Apr 2008 - 3:06
The innovation of the iphone is insurmountable. With my iphone there is nomore accidental redials, nomore cluttered face plate. During my time with the OLD button phones and PDA’s I used to have problems double pushing buttons which usually sent me to the internet w/o my knowledge leading to a charge for my provider. My iphone is almost as good as my Haagen Dazs.
“IPHONE…everything else follows in Its touchscreen,and all fall short.”
Mervis J. Miller,I.
9APR2008
21 Apr 2008 - 13:04
I think the iphone was originally a great idea, but the fact that it is only available on AT&T is a major downer, and the fact that it is going through some major glitching problems makes it not such a good phone as most people assume it is. Also, the major reason it is so vastly popular is because of how popular the ipods are, if it was the first i-product produced by apple, then I doubt there would be no where near as many iphones sold as there are, but because of the logo and marketing team, it is severely popularised…I personally cannot wait till the google-phone comes out…most people have not even heard of it.
23 Apr 2008 - 15:32
I’m glad to see competition forcing firms to continue to innovate. I had an iPhone for six months. While it is a good product, I left overall quite disappointed in it’s limitations and lousy customer support from Apple (they’re like everyone else in coming up with lame excuses not to honor their warranties). For $100, I now have a phone that does everything I used my iphone and then some — a better product for $400 less, given my needs: the Samsung Blackjack II. It will be a cold day in equador before I buy another iphone.