This week, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore had to (unfortunately) be interviewed by Apple cult member/leader, Walt Mossberg. I would have preferred Ina Fried (who now works at All Things D, but previously covered Microsoft news for years) to interview Joe, she actually knows the incredible story of how this product came into fruition and the passion and dedication that went into it behind the scenes.
Theres no doubt in my mind Android is up there, and its unstoppable. There isn’t much in the way Apple or RIM can do to stop the hundred of millions of (Android) phones being manufactured. But thats okay for Apple, because their making quite a decent profit out of it, so that would even lessen their motivation to stop Android, its not like it benefits Google (how they say their making money off it, its total BS, Rubin hesitated so much when trying to answer that question, in the same way Joe B. did, except nobody cared how Rubin behaved).
So that brings me to this point: options and competition only moves the industry forward and everyone benefits.
Even in the U.S. the number of people who have yet to buy a smartphone is jaw-dropping, so this war between all these companies is far, far from over.
Everyone just likes talking about today, and who’s dominate today. But, as history has shown too many times before, anything can quickly change during the future, and what may be called “dominate” today could end up as a distant memory in the future.
Windows Phone 7 still has a strong chance, in the same Android always did during it’s (not so humble) beginnings, which already seems to be a distant memory for so many. Ironic, almost.
One last thought for this post: Today may not matter as much as a very different tomorrow. Could’ve said that about Android in 2008.
