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On Apr 1, 2009, at 7:47 AM, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> wrote: You mean devices like the Symbian Toaster ;).... http://blog.symbian.org/2009/04/01/symbian-based-toaster-announced/ Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sri2 Sent: 01 April 2009 12:43 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Re: A worrying statistic ... Currently the 'target market' is the technology enthusiasts as you say. The proverbial chasm will be bridged and mainstream adoption will begin once the adjacent device makers start to adopt android as the OS for PCs, remote controls etc. I'm bullish on android take up in mobiles given the global reach with open adoption across mobile and non mobile devices, across geographic boundaries , across many providers (telecom and non telecom) and across many languages. You simply can't compare this profile with iphone which is marketed as a consumer electronic device (good in ti's own right). I expect the takeup targets to be 13 to 30 aged, males. Sri On Mar 30, 11:46 am, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> 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. --- * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 30 March 2009 14:23 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Re: A worrying statistic ... I do feel that Android has been keeping a very close eye on iPhone and if you look at the hardware that got included on G1 (touch screen, accelerometer, marketplace), I think we can all agree that the Google engineers have done a fantastic job implementing the best features of iPhone. Most comparisons on web are between Android and iPhone, not between Android and Blackberry, although the latter exists as well. So with all this great hardware available on Android, its a shame that quality games are still looking some way off. I know we don't all play games, but we all want our platform to flourish. And many of us want to sell apps on Android to supplement income (I am actually an app developer, not a game developer). But if people making purchasing decisions are all buying iPhones because the feeling is there are no good games on Android, this will affect the rest of the platform, and the market for selling apps will be much smaller - it is this last point that concerns me personally. On Mar 30, 2:03 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: [email protected] wrote: Can Android compete in a smartphone marketplace if the games are just not there? Yes. There is no doubt that iPhone is an entertainment device first and foremost based on app sales: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/books-is-the-fastest-growing-categor... However, iPhone isn't the only mobile OS in town, and I do not get the sense the other mobile platforms are quite so dependent upon entertainment for their success. I'd love to see charts akin to the ones in the post linked to above for Symbian and Blackberry, for example. If you have links to such data, please post it! -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
