I like apple lots but like the best product better

and for the moment it's the iPhone but the competition is closing in fast beware apple android cometh!

ive never seen anyone with such disdain for a company and their products as you have towards apple..Did steve jobs kill your kitten or bang your mom.....? i mean honestly.....besides as long as apple sticks to their current ways of doing things, the chances of them going bankrupt are about as likely as planet X knocking the earth out of its orbit in 2012 or whatever other ridiculous thing is supposed to happen...

Ive used the g1 and quite honestly i hope for the sake of android this is the absolute bottom of the barel......i mean really far down....like so far down you cant see it.....its just.....well it sucks....im sorry, just my opinion....maybe its the horrendous hardware.....the problem i see with android is the same problem that has plagued all open source os.....its really for tech geeks isnt it? and i mean no offence here. the iphone is aimed at your average consumer and seems to serve that majority segment quite well. im sorry but all those predicting the iphones demise seem to be in the minority

Maybe by then you will realize that many people have quite a different opinion from yours and you will learn to deal with that fact. maybe?

We heard this before; during the infancy of the ipod. These guys just say anything. It is called free speech. Afterall sophism is not illegal.

Nokia does not own GTK. GTK is not owned any company. Nokia owns QT. What may have confused you is that the Maemo platform on the N900 uses GTK and not the QT that they own. Down the road they will change Maemo over to QT.

I think this change over will slow down adoption and support for Maemo. Just because it is a major change in direction.

Its doubtful they will continue to support both.

(Nokia owns GTK, one of the major UI tools in the Linux world.)

Since Android is basically Linux, and Nokia N900 is linux, one wonders just how long that differentiation will last.

Does it matter? Probably not.

What DOES matter is how well the UI works and device features. That is where the Android crew will have an advantage of numbers and brain-share over either of the other camps. Simply the amount of resources that can be brought to bare.

You can tell the iPhone team at Apple is fairly small. (Judging by how long it takes to get features and how many bugs are introduced each time they touch the code).

Pit that against 57 companies running Android and submitting bub patches and feature additions.

The best bet for Apple would be to adopt Android, and hang their look and feel on top of it, since that's what they do best.

I know that's my own experience already. I bought an iPhone, was blown away and bought a Mac, ditto.

From this fast-growing user base, I think Apple may be doing much better than the predictions are saying in a couple of years from now.

My pet peeve is that people believe that the mayans predicted the end of days when they really didn't. Even though their calendar stopped on December 21, 2012, there is no evidence in the Mayan culture that ever suggested they knew when the end of the world would occur at all. Did it ever occur to you that they didn't make another calendar because they were being enslaved by the Spanish?

Getting back on topic, marketshare does not translate to profits. As long as Apple makes good products, they will continue to see revenue.

... just like I haven't given a sh!t about all of my Macs being less popular than PCs for the past two decades. As long as I know that I have the best, other people's puzzling choices don't matter to me.

I'm a little confused about the "360 degree ecosystem integration" comment, and frankly all of paragraph 2. The iPhone only plays well with other Apple products. Most iPhone owners are not Apple nerds, so this just doesn't apply. And, assuming constant growth rate until the end of time is what doomed Motorola during the Razr craze.

Second.... !!!

/ pet peeve