iPhone 4 vs Android
Android based phones and Apple's iPhone 4 offer similar capabilities
. The two are alike in many ways (touch screen, OS complex, impressive amount of applications), but their business model differs greatly.
At the launch of the
iPhone 4, Apple was able to seal an unprecedented partnership with AT & T, the leading telecom operator in the US. The Apple brand has not only obtained control over the interface that operators are reluctant to lose, but also managed to grab a portion of the revenues of operators (packages and services) through regular annuities. In return for the repayment of between 10 and 30%, Apple has provided an exclusive long-term (more than 24 months) and with the more expensive subscriptions in Europe, Apple will even make more income on the repayment of the operator on the sale of the iPhone 4!
The iPhone 4 has kept its promise and has been well and truly a major ground breaking innovation with the mobile phone "classic", earning the respect of consumers and analysts and a success that knows no boundaries, with more than 55 million units have already been sold worldwide. Therefore it is difficult to challenge the business model chosen by Apple who could benefit fully from the innovation only if AT & T was able to face the fact that it had made the right choice. However, other market participants found them without the competitive advantage of AT & T. Knock, Knock, say, Google.
If the business model of Apple is attacking aggressively to telephone operators, the business model of Google is to caress in the direction of hair. Operators earn quick succession, the mastery of the interface can modify the code (Android being open source) better yet Google will share advertising revenue with the operator if it is included in the Google search by default.
In the U.S., FBR Capital Markets suggests that Google would be willing to pay the operator $ 25 to $ 50 by phone to sell their mobile! Knowing that an operator pays between $ 50-150 for a mobile and acknowledging the importance of profitability, I do not see how they will be able to refuse such an offer.
If the iPhone 4 has opened a new market,
Google is in the process of trying to round up the bet, offering money to the operators. Google has always had its eyes riveted on the revenue generated by advertising on their search engine. What is particularly thought to be their ability to tackle new markets, destroying the business models of players, offering free services (sometimes at a loss)?
In the PC world, Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer and Firefox are all a threat to the market share of search from Google. So why not take the lead with mobile and thus eliminate the potential barriers?
Android does not compete directly with the iPhone 4, but will instead seek to capitalize on the mass distribution. The Apple fans who want the iPhone 4 would really probably remains loyal to Apple. It is something the iPhone 4 has captured against a small part of the smartphone market.
The google
Android strategy is to offer a cheaper, more diverse (from Apple you can choose between the and the iPhone 44 only). However, Apple seems to be content with its reign at the top end - which allows collecting the highest added value. No wonder Apple also increasing their market share in laptops, yet they do not seek to dominate the market as Microsoft does for PCs.
One possibility is that the best products dominate the market - and naturally the iPhone 4 (for now at least), especially that beyond the characteristics of mobile value added stems from the quality and quantity applications available. And there is still the King Apple (For the Time Being of course!)
But the evolution of the PC market does not lean in favor of this theory. As with the Mac and Windows, Android need not be the best product on the market, it is sufficient to exceed the mobile standards, and there's no question about it.
To return to applications, the developers think that the confrontation between iPhone 4 and Google - and if the iPhone 4 remains the development platform of choice, what will happens when Android will be the only open source platform for the remaining two? All manufacturers eager to use it thereby increase the number of users and applications in the long term.
With its strategy, Google is well and truly has become the Microsoft of the mobile (though equally valid for the PC). For its part, Apple is positioned ... as Apple's mobile.
iPhone 4 vs Android
By: Searchme4
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