This year, Android phones total beat Apple iPhone, to take the place of the top smartphone market share. Does this mean that Android has finally won the fight against Apple?
Good question. What would winning look, anyway?
Handset makers make more money
The free availability of the Google's Android operating system may have turned around the fortunes of Motorola, but any how Droids it sells, it will never catch up to Apple: the giant is 50 per cent of the profits of the industry whole smartphone. Therefore, any money that is left, after having paid to make each smartphone on tablets, Apple takes half.
While the other electronics companies of evil to compete on "specifications" or "characteristics", Apple creates spectacularly well designed products. The experience of the use of an iPhone is not something that you can simply compare with a control list; This is why Apple announcements show a person in fact with the iPhone, so you can see what looks like.
The end result is that Apple can command higher prices and make more money than anyone else and that fuels the economies of scale, which make it difficult to compete with Apple. Therefore, even if several Android phones are sold, not one of the manufacturers combined Android is better than Apple in the market.
APP developers earn more money
Some individuals and companies are, in fact, make more money on the Android market in the App Store. Spacetime Studios, for example, manufacturer of the popular MMORPG of legends of pocket for Android and iPhone.
Unfortunately, it may be the exception. The Android Market is growing rapidly, but the amount of money that developers make from the sale of apps there is change of pocket from the App Store. Most of the money in Android apps seems to come from ads, which may be why Android has more free apps that iOS (and why Android ads become more boring).
More free apps could count as a victory, in a way, even if most of them things like ringtones and wallpapers. But each pay-app is another reason to use an iPhone and the app developers put their heart and soul on them - in part to make money and in part to do something worthy to use on an iPhone. Many of them, porting their applications for Android is something they do later, or even not at all.
Android WINS for you?
Believe it or not, it is for me! I use an Android phone, and I love it and would not withstand the iPhone. In this sense and its quirks and sometimes stickiness, Android has won me more.
If you are a manufacturer of the device or an application developer, the money in the Android world affairs - but as a combined buyer and buyer app, what is important is that you choose to reward with your money and loyalty. Both officials Android handset/app and Apple faithful viewers, won two of them in my book.
Jared Spurbeck is an avid open-source software, which uses an Android phone and a laptop PC to Ubuntu. He has written on technology and electronics since 2008.
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