-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A few days ago NDP reported that Android outperformed Apple in the smartphone market, 1st quarter of 2010. Apple spokesperson argues against the report:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/11/apple_responds_to_android_sales_says_npd_data_doesnt_tell_whole_story.html basically on five points: 1) It's only USA based 2) the comparison doesn't include iPod or iPad 3) Apple sells only at the specified price tags, while Android manufacturers often have sales promotions and discounts. 4) the estimate has been done with an insufficient number of samples (150,000 interviews) 5) Apple only partners with a single carrier, AT&T, in the USA, while Android manufacturers have multiple partnerships. Well, this kind of response is so pathetic that I can only infer that Apple has been hard-bitten by the news: 1) Well, yes, it's only a USA perspective. NDP clearly state it. So, what? 2) iPad is a Very Different Thing and I think everybody agrees that Apple is the market leader for that device class. OTOH, I don't see iPod as relevant (we're talking about smartphones and Jobs hasn't tried yet to persuade Apple customers that they don't need the radio inside their mobile; but he could try and be successful, I think). 3) This is the most laughable and it's hard for me to seriously comment it. It would make sense only if competitors were doing dumping, which they don't. 4) I believe that the regular politic pools about approval rates of governments are performed on much smaller samples and they are considered reliable - please correct me if I'm wrong. 5) Ridiculous as point 3 - clearly Apple competitors are smarter in this, still Apple pretends that everything is measured with their own metrics. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvrN2cACgkQeDweFqgUGxfgwgCfa941pGNJyxv7DRmkv2zXA4Al wG8AoI5rKBUi7613cmsCQanrEmX+FsUa =gLMU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
