This is a guest post by Sam Peters.
The biggest conflict we have seen all year has been in the smartphone industry. iPhone and Android have been battling each other all year long, which has actually put several phone makers in court. So which really is the best? Should you go with Android or iPhone?
Siri, the virtual assistant for the Apple iPhone 4S, when it appeared two months ago seemed possibly to be an Android killer. It had both natural language technology together with artificial intelligence. Given Apple’s emphasis on usability and user convenience, it promised to be impressive and so it was to many. Google perhaps as one might expect was less enthusiastic.
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Mobile or portable devices are clearly the future of the computing world. Although iPhones and iPads have up till now been the market’s darlings, albeit at premium prices, Android is now coming up strongly. An example of this is a tablet put out by Samsung that may well take the lead. According to TechRadar, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is without doubt one of the best tablets yet to hit the shelves.
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As Forbes.com did on the question whether Siri is an android killer, it is now attempting to create a controversy on whether Google’s Android will be paying billions to Apple. Continue reading
This post was triggered by a comment that Stephen Rey made on the post about Siri as an Android killer:
… But what do you think about the Android’s ” Iris ” . Do you think it can compete with Siri?
As usual Apple has created major waves as it introduces new technology. We are talking about the iPhone 4S with the Siri voice technology application. Forbes with a two-step back-and-forth series has helped the hype. Perhaps Siri is a Google killer. Perhaps Siri is not a Google killer. Given the growing importance of the mobile Internet, there are huge implications in how this conflict plays out.
Tailor the Internet toward smartphones is the word from Rogers Communications Inc. It plans to recast the definition of the Internet and how it is used as more Canadians transition toward smart-phones.
Rogers chief executive Nadir Mohamed in the keynote address at the Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto said:
The notion of Internet at home [or] Internet at the office is changing to: your Internet, wherever you are. It is very powerful. Canadians’ appetite to communicate, access information and entertainment, and even make transactions through their wireless device is becoming insatiable.
He added that Toronto-based Rogers, the largest wireless carrier in the country, is moving quickly to bring mobile Internet to the masses.
By 2014, more than three million Canadians will be users of smart-phones, such as the Apple iPhone or the Research In Motion BlackBerry, which surf the Web and provide e-mail.
Rogers will shortly introduce the iPhone 3G S, Apple’s latest device, which is at least twice as fast as its predecessor.
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As The Economist points out for Mobile telecoms in the recession, it is Boom in the bust.
Despite the recession, the mobile industry is enjoying a promising transformation. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, although many bemoaned the downturn, on the show floor it was hard to keep track of all the new “smart” phones and services.
Makers of handsets will be hard hit: unit sales are expected to fall by at least 10% this year, having increased by 6% in 2008 to 1.2 billion. But at the same time the industry is going through a transformation that promises to fuel rapid growth in the years to come. To draw a parallel from computing, it is as if the personal computer (PC), its graphical user-interface, high-speed internet access and open-source software had all taken off at the same time.
The momentum has been created by a newcomer to the mobile industry: Apple. By the end of 2008 it had sold more than 17m of its elegant iPhones, and there have been over 500m downloads from its “App Store” since its launch last July. Others are now following in Apple’s footsteps. In Barcelona, for instance, Microsoft and Nokia, the world’s largest software firm and handset-maker respectively, announced their own application stores. Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry, and Google, the world’s biggest internet firm, have done the same.
It is likely that the current operators will not be the ones who control the mobile internet. Others such as Apple, Google or Nokia, are more likely to become the gatekeepers.
Informa, a market-research firm, projects revenues from content and data services of $240 billion by 2012. Despite the economic turmoil elsewhere, the industry seems justified in its confidence that the smart-phone is finally emerging as a powerful, innovative and lucrative new computing platform.
One interesting question to ponder in all this is who will come through the recession with the best resources to capitalize on this inevitable growth in the Mobile Web.
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A story this weekend makes me wonder whether Botch your Buzz (ByB) is a new way of feeding the social media frenzy. Botch of course is a blunder, an embarrassing mistake. However we humans more often talk about others’ weaknesses rather than their strengths. Perhaps ByB could join other fundamental organizational processes that rely on basic human nature such as BbB (Bullshit Baffles Brains).
The genesis of this story is an item from Michael Arrington giving an Update On Google iPhone Voice Recognition App: Look For It On Monday. As he recounts:
Google’s voice recognition search application for the iPhone, originally set for launch on Friday, will likely go live sometime Monday, we’ve heard from a source with knowledge of the situation.
Google was under the impression that the application would be live on the App Store on Friday (obviously, since they pushed all significant press attention to it). Sometime Friday they found out Apple wouldn’t be pushing it, despite the fact that Google submitted it for review earlier in the week and got a thumbs up for Friday.
Who knows why Apple delayed the application, or why they tend to treat every application developer equally poorly. But in this case Apple really screwed up in our opinion. .. Google could have launched for the Android first and pushed sales of phones on their platform. They didn’t, and Apple should have embraced them for that. Next time I expect Google won’t be so trusting. And I don’t blame them.
That is probably what really happened. Nevertheless it may well be that more people talk about this online than if all had gone smoothly on Friday. If all had gone smoothly, then all we could talk about is the technology. This way that technology talk is now leveraged with the scandal of an organizational blunder. It perhaps is a good example of what I like to call Crikey! Surprise Marketing.
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