Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

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It will be many years before it is "too late".

The current size of existing cell phone users is HUGE. Apple is certainly delivering the hottest product out there, kudos to them, but even at current sales rates, they won't have more than 5% marketshare (you do know there are 2billion phones in use today?) in a couple of years. That's 100M phones folks.

So as long as they get it to market in the next couple of years, they can get into the replacement upgrade market quite nicely.

It all comes down to the phone, the hardware, and the software. If the hardware is lame, it won't sell, it has to have the same "cool" factor as iPhone. If the phone part isn't great (quad band, etc), it won't sell. Finally, if the software is not better, it won't sell (at the numbers Apple does). I certainly would not handicap Google though, they do software very well.

There is another factor. With Linux projected to hit 70M users this year worldwide, iPhone is a non starter. Who wants a phone you can't use officially. I think people are starting to see that yes, Linux people are very supportive AND have wallets.

TripleII

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