Android and iPhone Own Nearly The Entire U.S. Smartphone Market

Don't you think the Windows phone is going to start to have a growing market share? Microsoft has deep pockets and I suspect they will support it very strongly.

Right.... just like the Zune.

I guess "Research In Motion" didn't research enough to stay on top ;)

I'm actually glad to see this, supporting Blackberries always sucked where as supporting iOS and Android are very easy.

How so, The android OS predates iOS, as google purchased the company that produced it. Its based on linux, has a completely different UI, filesystem and SDK. So what exactly did google copy iOS?

Release date. Don't you know that anything released after a certain product is automatically branded a copy? :D

Why didn't Google announce an amazing new OS and phone on January 9, 2007?

Because it didn't exist.

You gotta remember... the mobile phone industry was pretty stale back then. Just 2 days before Apple's iPhone announcement... Palm announced yet another crappy Treo. Yikes.

Google didn't even announce Android and the whole Open Handset Alliance until 11 months after Apple announced the iPhone... and the first Android phone didn't come out until 22 months after the iPhone was first announced.

Strange timing indeed.

Who knows what Google would have done if it wasn't for the iPhone... they were sitting on Android since 2005.

I would feel better for Android if there were Android phones before the iPhone... and Android tablets before the iPad.

But there weren't. Apple jumpstarted this new mobile revolution. Everything afterwards... you decide.

Release date. Don't you know that anything released after a certain product is automatically branded a copy? :D

Why didn't Google announce an amazing new OS and phone on January 9, 2007?

Because it didn't exist.

You gotta remember... the mobile phone industry was pretty stale back then. Just 2 days before Apple's iPhone announcement... Palm announced yet another crappy Treo. Yikes.

Google didn't even announce Android and the whole Open Handset Alliance until 11 months after Apple announced the iPhone... and the first Android phone didn't come out until 22 months after the iPhone was first announced.

Strange timing indeed.

Who knows what Google would have done if it wasn't for the iPhone... they were sitting on Android since 2005.

I would feel better for Android if there were Android phones before the iPhone... and Android tablets before the iPad.

But there weren't. Apple jumpstarted this new mobile revolution. Everything afterwards... you decide.

Google was racing to knock off the Blackberry ... until they saw the iPhones instant success. They changed course and knocked off the iPhone instead.

Then they whore'd out the OS for any company to use on any quality of hardware the manufacturers desired. Dozens of handset models flooded the market, low prices, freebies, 2 for 1's. The carriers are only too happy to push the Android phones because the margins are better. Hence you get the clueless kids flogging Android junk in the stores.

That's what you do when you're not laser beam focused on the user experience. Throw enough into the market, advertise the hell out of it, give resellers incentive to promote and voila a sub par product catches up on market share.
Bunch of hype, brainwashing and coercing consumers into a lessor user experience.

A very very low percentage of consumers are interested in hacks or updating roms to get their phones to work better. They just want their phone to work, get updates when needed, and last but not least, apps play a very important role in the user experience. Android falls so far short on important details. A train wreck of an OS in my experience.

Don't you think the Windows phone is going to start to have a growing market share? Microsoft has deep pockets and I suspect they will support it very strongly.

I think that Microsoft would have a really tough time convincing people to switch from iOS or Android, since there is so much incentive to remain within each respective ecosystem. They would have to offer something truly convincing; I don't think their current offerings satisfy that.

That 5% number for RIM is mind blowing. Has any company squandered/mis-managed a brand (in N America) worse than they have in the past 5 years? I cant think of one. Very sad as I WAS a 6 year BB owner :(

Expect to see WP7 to make a dent in those stats this year. Especially with the Lumia 900 coming out soon.

I hope WP7 fails, and puts a hole in Microsoft's deep pockets. I just hate MS for failing to improve Windows. You still see blue screens of death. They still have the registry system which slows down installs/updates. Windows Update takes forever and sometimes errors out. Mac OS updates are quick and always finish (crossing fingers :)).

RIM is just waiting to be bought by Apple, Google, or MS. They are done. They had 5 years to do something but they haven't done anything.

Where do you see these blue screens of death? I haven't a blue screen of death since Windows 98. Which version of Windows are you using?

In reality since Android is a copy of ios, it's almost 100% Apple:-)

How so, The android OS predates iOS, as google purchased the company that produced it. Its based on linux, has a completely different UI, filesystem and SDK. So what exactly did google copy iOS?

Not good news for WP7 phones, and RIM is still in crash & burn status