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Google Takes a Jab at Apple and the iPhone

Posted by iphonefan

March 15, 2008 |

Google is ramping up its impressive media engine to start touting its new phone and phone operating system Android. For those of you who hadn’t heard, Google is developing a mobile phone operating system that will run on a variety of different hardware pieces from a variety of manufactures.

So far, HTC, Motorolla, and Samsung are all interested in Google’s Android mobile platform. The question is, will Android threaten the iPhone. Google seems to think so, here is a quote from Rich Miner, a manager for the mobile platform group at Google:

Once you have devices out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there’s a much larger potential market on Android than for the iPhone.”

Mr Miner told a conference in Silicon Valley that whereas the iPhone had “a single manufacturer” and was “targeted at a particular demographic”, developers could expect a much wider uptake of applications they developed for Android-based phones, the first of which are expected to be released later this year.

Since its release, 7 months ago, The iPhone has sold more that 4 million devices. The SDK has been downloaded well over 100,000 times. iPhone 2.0 is on the way out in just a few months, and there are rumors of a hardware revision. I am not sure that Apple is as frightened as Google thinks they are. What do you think?


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