Posts tagged android vs iphone
Why Don’t Android Phones Get Updated?
This is a great post from the understatement. Check out the chart below on the fragmentation of OS’s on Android devices:
This chart represents the manufacturers support of the latest OS for each smartphone device. And it doesn’t look pretty for Android devices.
So why don’t Android devices get updated?
According to Michael Degusta, “Obviously a big part of the problem is that Android has to go from Google to the phone manufacturers to the carriers to the devices, whereas iOS just goes from Apple directly to devices.”
“In other words, Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone is to make you really happy with your current one, whereas apparently Android phone makers think they can get you to buy a new phone by making you really unhappy with your current one.”
Android App Number to Exceed iPhone by Summer
Xyologic, a startup that searches and indexes through App Store data, recently published some interesting data regarding the App space.
According to Xyologic projections, by August 2012 there will be an equal number of apps available for the Android as there are for the iPhone, at roughly 680,000 apps available for both platforms.
Also, according to Xyologic, the total app downloads for Android will surpass the iPhone sometime in May 2013, at roughly 84 billion.
All of this makes a lot of sense with Apple’s 3 devices competing against Androids many manufacturers and many devices.
I wonder if Apple’s free iPhone 3GS will make any impact on these numbers.
