Engineering an iphone

[Mr_Payne]

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Perhaps I worded that particular part poorly, but the fact remains that market share only tells part of the story in this case. I would argue that, despite any technological shortcomings, iOS would eclipse Android if it was available on more networks. Android has done an excellent job competing and now eclipsing iOS by capitalizing on AT&T’s exclusivity deal with Apple, but without that window of opportunity, I think iOS would still be the bigger player simply because of its name recognition, similar to how XBOX360 still has a larger marketshare than the PS3 despite being technologically inferior because it has been around longer and beat the others to the punch.

You underestimate how many people <em>don’t</em> like Apple. There are very few Apple fanatics that aren’t already on AT&T. There are quite a few people that that are still on inferior Symbian/RIM/WinMo platforms that haven’t rolled their phones over yet. Android really is the only option left in terms of application competitiveness, etc.</p>

[karabee]

<p>^ Not only does Android have more networks, it also has more physical phones to compete with, too. It’s not like Apple even makes multiple phones on a single network; they have one phone, whereas Android has myriad phones on 3 networks.</p>

<p>Also, despite recent gains, Android does NOT have the largest market share (or even a larger one than Apple):
[Android</a> Phones Steal Market Share | Mobile & Wireless | InformationWeek SMB](<a href=“http://smb.informationweek.com/mobile/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224201881]Android”>http://smb.informationweek.com/mobile/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224201881)</p>