Al Sutton wrote: > Does anyone have any ideas on what group of consumers would buy Android > phones (apart from Android fans that is :))? > > People are always going to compare Android to something else, and at the > moment the iPhone comes closest because of the similarity of hardware specs. > > Should it be compared with something else instead which would better > represent what is available to the potential android market at the moment? > > Al. > > > - In my opinion, Android is really designed for the day when the hardware for phones capable of running it is dirt cheap and so the phones are being given away by the carriers. That's when a zero-cost OS that provides a platform for smartphone apps to run portably on a variety of different devices comes into its own. While the phones are still expensive, Android is just an inelegant also-ran to the iPhone platform-- a way for non-iPhone carriers to stay in the smartphone game.
In other words, Android is not going to be a great competitor to the iPhone until its hardware becomes either substantially better or substantially cheaper than the iPhone hardware. Then the iPhone lock-in penalty will be visible to end-users. It follows from this that the target audience of Android phones are people who are too impecunious for an iPhone. Not necessarily a good omen for paid-app developers-- but it is potentially a very large audience. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
