When you combine those two hurdles, you're left with an OS playing catchup (as they were all of last year) spinning their wheels while your main competitor in the space has cusotmers happily waiting weeks for product due to overwhelming demand
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Simple Best
I love this article - and not only because it references Star Wars on multiple levels. Google appears to have an issue with fragmentation which has been debated ad nauseum in the blogosphere, but I think they also have an issue with fragmented launches. When they choose a launch partner (In the case of Honeycomb, Motorola) they limit what and who can play - meaning Samsung, LG, Lenovo et al are left out of the launch game. This is a positive in allowing you to focus your resources on one vendor to maximize impact of launch and work through bugs with one point of contact. Where it becomes a problem - and the Xoom appears to be evidence of this - is when your manufacturing partner cant execute flawlessly. Xoom came to market tied to a carrier (VZW) and without the WiFi-only option, making it's launch price point $100 higher than the iPad2. This leads to adouble-hurdle - first, you have to trigger to "buy impulse" with a higher price point AND you have to then get me to buy something that is not an iPAD for $100 more.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Interest in Android Tablets on the wane...already?
A couple of interesting data points from this graph. the first of which is the relative interest in developing for iPhone vs. Android. Accepting that Android is now the leading platform in the market (setting aside the iPod Touch numbers for now) it's interesting that there remains a higher level of developer interest in iOS than Android. I would argue that this speaks to the continuing fragmentation issues with the platform and not anything that is truly customer facing.
The second point of interest is the dearth of anything after the top 2. Windows Phone slid past RIM on the developer scale, but the numbers are terribly small in comparison (29% and 27% respectively). Nokia partnering with MS probably explains the relative gain for Redmond's fledgling platform vs. BlackBerry, but the drop on the RIM side (11 points) has got to be very concerning for folks in Waterloo, given that April saw the launch of the PlayBook tablet and the official unveiling of the QNX OS that is supposed to be the future of BlackBerry
Sony Global - Sony Announces Optimally Designed “Sony Tablet” with Android 3.0 that Complements Network Services for an Immersive Entertainment Experience
So, apparently Kyocera isn't the only one who thinks the folding, dual-screen approach is the way to go. I just can't see it.
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