I appreciate your reply, and I hope you’re right. I would love to see Apple play catch up to Android for a while. It would be good for both companies. From what I’ve seen of Android, I don’t see it happening yet, but I would be glad to be wrong in this case.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gadgets#Release_history
2. http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/nokia_plans_tou.html

Disclaimer: All the statements above are of my own personal opinion, I have no affiliations that can benefit from my reply, and the only facts written are those referenced and generally known facts.

Lets give Android the same amount of time to mature upon release as we did the iPhone then discuss this topic again.

Just my 2 cents

-James

Something good they’re doing is making the SDK available for Windows, Linux, and OS X, unlike Apple’s iPhone SDK which is only available for OS X. I would suggest Apple makes it available for other operating systems so more people can develop for the iPhone…not just Mac users, unless this is Steve’s idea to force developers to buy a Mac.

It would be more appropriate to say that this is how the iPhone should have been, considering they’re more comparable.

I beg to differ when you mention that Android-based phones won’t work out. Android will be available to developers on practically any platform, no barrier to entry, very limited or no restrictions (can you say NDA, limited GPS, no background processes, Steve’s iron hand?), and Android developers will be allowed to have an open communit–anywhere. For Apple’s sake, I hope these limitations are lifted otherwise, to me, Apple is shooting its foot before the real race begins.

Obviously, it will take more time before Android picks up speed compared to the iPhone. There’s no doubting that it doesn’t have the hype iPhone had. Most people that even know or have heard of Android are us geeks/techies. That being said, even if there are 10 million iPhones sold, you are restricting your view to just the USA — the world is much larger than just this country. For comparison, Nokia sold 1.34 million phones EACH DAY[2] according to their 2Q 2008 report. Suddenly 10 million total doesn’t seem that big. I know Nokia is making their own handset platform, but imagine the potential if Android will be sold by many other handset makers instead of just one like Apple and will have many different versions, even from the same maker. This is why Windows is so popular around the world, as you indirectly admit, since the software can be used on someone else’s hardware.