[clug] Android in the Business Press

[Michael Still]

steve jenkin quoted an article:

> Publishers who are hoping Apple’s consumer-pays system supplants
> Google’s “everything is free” model had a nasty setback this week:
> Google’s Android operating system for mobile smartphones passed Apple’s
> iPhone in US market share.

The author of the article is surely confused. The cost of the phone 
operating system is absorbed by the manufacturer. There isn't any 
discernible difference to your average phone consumer given both options 
retail for about the same price. Additionally, both have paid and free 
apps, so its not like consumers refuse to pay money for applications run 
on an open source phone.

I'd be interested in a survey of the percentage of iPhones which are 
jail broken on the other hand -- that's got to be an indicator of people 
who like to tinker with products they purchase.

Mikal