Comments on: Is the mobile tech press wrong in positioning Apple vs. Google?

By: fj198602

fj198602 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:59:06 +0000

By: Paul Byrne

Paul Byrne — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:27:14 +0000

Tigers and lions might go after each other if they lived in the same continent.

But no matter how big Google gets in the phone business it will never eat Apple completely, just as Microsoft's market share in the computer world has never completely eaten Apple, but merely taken a bite out of it, a bite which you can see in the logo to this day.

By: Vyoming

Vyoming — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:53:26 +0000

Hey scoble, When you post a video of any interview please make sure you also mention the URL of the company or the personal page of that person somewhere in the post.

Thanks

By: marcus

marcus — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:02:34 +0000

great interview and post. i think the real battle will be b/w android and iphone – these will be the only viable alternatives for consumers (altho google still has a little catch up to do). the only potential challenger on a global scale is nokia – it is the only OEM investing significantly in creating an end to end service experience. but as michael points out in the interview the execution is a little weak/confused thus far.

By: jay_jamison

jay_jamison — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:15:55 +0000

agree that there's tons of white space in the market. also agree it is basically got two leaders--goog and apple--everyone else has miles to go to even be legitimate as platform contender.

i do think google is very well positioned in h2h battle with apple, especially around being developer friendly. apple has done much good, but also is wayyyyy too controlling with its stupid app approval process. i expect that as goog/android gains unit share, developers will increasingly look at and help it achieve primacy.

http://bit.ly/7X97a4

By: suppositio.us

suppositio.us — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:21:46 +0000

I have to listen to all your material before I can really comment, but let me ask you this, Scoble: If one quarter of the people in the US have cells and pay anything like $70 a month, what' s the bucket that apple and google are fighting for? Oh, wikipedia says 271,000,000 cells in the us.

Okay, 50 a month bimtes two hundred fifty million. one billion and change. A year. No! A month.

And you think you can call this fight? You haven't seen anything yet.

Over 12 Billion dollars a year. Your friends will correct my numbers here, probably moving them up. Love your work. Love your commenters. Later....

Suppositio.us