1. Of Fords and Ferraris

    Dave Chartier, on Louis Gray’s “I’m turning in my iPhone” piece:

    Because if anything is crucial to the decision of picking a platform and two-year indenturing contract, it’s that a platform dependent on the sales “free” handsets to customers who are interested in the lowest common denominator of products will probably overtake its only competition which is obsessed with quality, details, and experience.

    There’s been talk of Android overtaking iOS for some time - it’s inevitable - and iOS vs Android is perpetually pitched as a battle of iPhone vs Android smartphones. But it’s no such thing. As I said just last month:

    [iOS vs Android is] like comparing the sales of Ferrari to Ford, whilst complaining that Ferrari doesn’t sell anywhere near as many cars.

    Posted on Monday July 12th, 2010