Comparing Apples to Androids
December 22, 2010
“Google: We’re Activating 300,000 Android Phones Each Day” proclaims . . . well, just like it says. To sum up: “Need help wrapping your head around the significance here? Consider that Apple claims it activates 270,000 iPhones each day, 30,000 less than Google for each 24 hour period, 210,000 less per week, and more than 10.9 million less per year (again assuming the rate of activations doesn’t change for either company).”
Sounds impressive, right?
HotHardware.com seems ready to declare Apple TKO’d. Well, I’d say not quite so fast. First of all, these numbers are about activations, not profits. Who is really making big money here? Apple, hand over fist, in the midst of a tanked economy. Google is hanging their hopes on ad revenue, while Apple dominates with sales of all iOS devices: iPhone, iPads, iPod Touch. To date, no one has made money on Android apps who hasn’t made it first on iPhone apps. In my opinion, the real fight here is not Google vs. Apple, it’s Google vs. Blackberry, with RIM on the mat and down for the count.
Alice Wasielewski, December 22, 2010
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