People buy things in droves mostly because other people have them.
Apple are like toys. Only good for Apps and Games.
RIM however are trying to match this aswell as keeping their business appeal.
Giving OpenGL support and adding Liquid Graphics will enable developers to create better games and apps for BB App World.
Mobile manufacturers are changing very rapidly and ill be very interested to see what other manufacturers plan to do this year
Android has boomed as it is so flexible to make it work with hardware, There is even talk of it being on a Model of TV and why ever not, Eventually i can see it taking over from Mac as a alternative to a windows platform.
Windows have tried to have a go with there new windows mobile but it has not worked.
Symbian was well a feeble attempt at beating apple the reason was the language for developers of apps so they never got allot of interest and well the OVI store was a joke,
Apple worst enemy are them self they brought a smart phone out and every one else was trying to beat them they held them off until now.
Tablets are the next thing and gess what operating system there using Android my wife thinks the Motorola walks all over her Galaxy Tab but when she got her tab there was only the ipad and she hated it, I can not get any were near her tab she also uses it for work so no need for a laptop
I don't think Android will be topped from this as it is getting better and better Apple no this but if i no apple they will still stay there like they have with the computer's
But the big question is What's Next ???? with technology And no not 3D That will never take off i feel a Head ache coming on
I have not yet found a unhappy android customer, But i have always found a Apple customer that has gone to Android and will never go back, Don't get me wrong i have a Ipod nano and my son has a ipod touch i can not fault them one bit i think apple made a misstake going down the phone route but they did.
Symbian has had its day and i think it need sending to the software grave yard, The next will be the Blackberry os but they will ring that to death first
Rest in Peace Symbian
Obviously, with the pace that Android was making, it was inevitable.
Symbian was getting too long in the tooth, was often buggy and if anything there were too many versions. Nokia became complacent, sat on their haunches for too long and they were happy with the 40% market share at the time.
I thought they would go with Maemo 5 for some time while they worked on an alternative to that or Symbian even, but alas they let that go without anything to fill the void until MeeGo appears.
I haven't had any experience with Android as yet, but if I get a larger MicroSD for my N900 in the future I may just give it a go with a multi-boot set up.
Android and Maemo 5 are pretty much one and the same, which makes porting Android apps a viable proposition, developers just have to work in Qt rather than Java. I don't know how much of a Linux kernel Android has, but I'm not sure if it's as much as Maemo 5. (Don't think so anyway).
Is Android network brandable at all? One of the reasons I plumbed for the N900 was I wanted to shake off the network shackles.
To be honest I would have plumbed for an Android if the N900 wasn't available, but there was just one thing putting me off. Google and their track record. Call me Mr Paranoid, but their behaviour with privacy scares me, plus I don't like their ideas for the future regarding advertising. Unless the networks make some changes and improvements, I can see some people getting pretty peeved to have targeted adverts soaking up their network allowance. 1GB just isn't enough for general browsing and dozens of ads each day and not everywhere can get 3G. What a drawl that would be downloading adverts over a 2G connection.
Just my views
