mobile software: March 2008 Archives

Google is expecting to out sell the iPhone with its open platform software working on multiple devices. Rich Miner, group manager for mobile platforms was quoted after his presentation at the Emerging Communications Conference by Information Week.

“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,” Miner said. Despite the runaway success of the iPhone, which sold 4 million units in its first seven months of release, “there’s a single manufacturer, it’s targeted at a particular demographic, and it falls far short of the 1 billion mobile phones sold every year worldwide,” added Miner.