Apple can still win the mobile platform wars, but it won’t be easy: ” BetaNews.Com 8/13/10 12:56 PM Joe Wilcox By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
The InterWeb is buzzing about Android’s sudden second quarter smartphone OS market share surge against Apple’s iOS and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS. Windows Mobile was a goner last quarter. But behind the numbers is a bigger question: Which mobile platform will be more successful? Smartphones are but one small measure of success.
Android’s smartphone surge — to No. 3 worldwide and No. 1 in the United States during second quarter, according to Gartner — doesn’t surprise me. I laid out the scenario in October 2009 post ‘Apple cannot win the smartphone wars’ and again in May with ‘Like I said, Apple cannot win the smartphone wars.'”
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