Android smartphone' OS has blown by Windows to take over the third spot in phone operating systems behind RIM and Apple respectively.
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I was recently sitting with some friends the other day. At a table of about 6 people, I had the only Android phone. It was new too, only about 48 hours old. The other 5 people were dedicated iPhone users. Some had the old 3G version while one or two had the new iPhone 4.
Like any new toy, they started passing my phone around talking about the pros and cons and how much better some things were than Apple's iPhone. My phone has its shortcomings, but I was surprised to hear it being compared so highly next to the iPhone.
I began to ask questions and the response that I got was that Apple has small details that they are refusing to fix which annoy users. There are certain functions that come standard on Android OS systems that you would have to jailbreak an iPhone to get. What I was told is that people like their iPhones, but that Apple isn't doing enough to compete with the changing market. When they were producing the only smartphone of its kind, the kinks in the system were okay.
Now that RIM and Android are all competing with Apple for the latest and greatest technology, different systems are pushing Apple to need to become faster in creating fixes for problems in their OS.
In fact, as the article suggests, Nielsen numbers show that Android devices outsold the iPhone for the first time ever last quarter?
Apple is steadily starting to lose market share in this changing economy. Will they rise to the challenge of creating a smartphone to compete with Android, or will they fade away as Google takes the Number 2 spot, and sets its eyes on RIM's marketshare.
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