Comments on: Android Delayed, Still Not Competitive With iPhone

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:17:49 +0000

Android can do amazing things! Look around the web and look at a few of the hundreds of applications that have already been written for the platform. They are making a gphone (least that is the rumor) but it will not be out till 09, they are trying to have the OS ready for 4qtr 08-we will see if that will happen. Why is the iPhone a year after their first addition, creating a new one that should of had the crap they are bragging about? 3g, push email, etc??? It still can't mms, copy/paste, and many other things. Compare the new iphone to the BB Bold. http://images.crackberry.com/files/kevin/BoldvsiPhone3Gbig.png BB is the better phone, while apple is somewhat still trying to catch up to the rest of the market.

iPhone is a rad looking phone and very high tech but that is all. Why does it miss all these needed components? I don't get why Apple would do that?

By: HCE

HCE — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:39:32 +0000

Mac OS X Leopard was supposed to ship in Spring 2007. That's a window of 3 months. It ended up shipping with days to go before the end of Spring. Every Apple website/blog insisted that it wasn't delayed and it had shipped on time. And, IIRC, this isn't the first time that Apple has predicted a shipping window and shipped their product at the very end of that window. That's essentially all that Google has done. They announced a 6 month window in which the first Android phones will ship. So, by the above logic, as long as they ship on or before December 31st they are not late. Heck, everyone in the industry does this. Each time someone announces a window in which a product will ship, it invariably comes out at the very end of that window (if it isn't delayed, that is). This whole thing is a non-story. What would have been surprising is if we saw an Android phone on July 1st - now, that would have been a story worth talking about!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:02:06 +0000

@Rene's comment.

Way to tell it man, way to tell it.

By: HO

HO — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:34:16 +0000

@Rene:

Y A W N ......

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:44:29 +0000

@jeff: Not sure you're right about Android running on the iPhone, so maybe you could help with figuring that part? And yes, there are segments in any market, and smart companies like Apple and Google are very conscious of what segments and markets they're focusing on. iPhone is a single unit. Windows Mobile runs on many units. Google wants those many units. (It already has the iPhone eyeballs, and thus already gets the iPhone ad revenue). Now sure how that's pompous, but we appreciate your nonsensical disdain anyway!

@Caleb: Google is the #1 search engine. That also means it is in the top 5, and the top 10 of all search engines. But does saying it's in the top ten mean as much as saying its #1? Of course not. Likewise, 4th quarter is certainly in 2nd half, as is 364/365th, but the reason a company says 2nd half is because they're gunning for something earlier (at least sounding) than 4th quarter. Never mind the very real possibility of a slip into 2009.

So, while I might have napped through time telling, I was fortunately awake in applied logic

Also, an iPhone blog focusing on iPhones is not fan*ish anymore than a ketchup bottle being filled with ketchup isn't anti-mustard. How's that for applied logic?

By: Caleb

Caleb — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:27:54 +0000

"Originally slated for second half 2008, its now looking more like fourth quarter" Obviously you're iphone fanboys/girls, so this will fall on deaf ears, but Q4 is IN the 2nd half of 2008. So it's not really delayed, it's just become more specific. Maybe you should consult a calendar, or go back to 2nd grade where they taught how to tell time.

By: KH

KH — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:16:12 +0000

um... why is this even news? Another question who would even use this? There is a reason why these phones come with a OS on them already because they are built to utilize those features. Why don't they just make an actual device instead of just an OS? If you really want to compete with Windows mobile do what Microsoft has not done yet. Maybe no one thinks this but me.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:14:03 +0000

so, because it doesn't directly copy the "model" of the iphone, it doesn't compete with it?

here is a hint, the iphone, is a phone. the OS android, will work, on (mostly) all phones. you figure it out.

i liked the article but your pompous mouthing off about your pretty little overpriced phone ruin the journalistic integrity.