Thread: Google's Android is Eating Apple's Lunch
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Old 12-03-2012, 08:07 AM   #320
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Originally Posted by elcreative View Post
Love the use of "Google's Android Platform." Thought Samsung has a platform, HTC has a platform, Apple has a platform etc but Google has very little platform as yet... it has a free operating system scattered over many individual manufacturers' hardware (many with device to device to software incompatibilities) but hardly a great revenue earner (that may yet change but so far hasn't).
Of course android is a platform -- in the truest, narrowest sense. It underlies all those devices. Samsung, HTC, and others merely put a software overlay over android.

In the broader sense, android is a platform as well. Because it's tied to Google apps and the Google app store, which by the way, are gaining ground on Apple very fast in terms of revenue:
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Google Play seems to be going on one heck of a growth spurt. According to new stats, the Android app store is catching up to iOS fast.

Even though the Apple App Store is four times more profitable than Google Play, iOS can't match Android's revenue growth of 311 percent since January and 17.9 percent in the last month.

In contrast, Apple's app revenue has increased only 12.9 percent this year and shrunk 0.7 percent in the last month ...

"The gap between global revenue on iOS and Google Play is still there," said Bertrand Schmitt, App Annie CEO, in a press release about the report.

"But the gap is shrinking every month, creating more opportunities for publishers to generate significant revenue growth in several countries on Google Play." ...

Since its debut, the Google Play store has put a few notches on the wall as well. In September, it hit the 25 billion downloads millstone. And in October, Google Play offered 700,000 app for download, matching the number of apps available for iOS.

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In the article, it also says android should surpass Apple in terms of tablet sales by mid-2013, according to one analyst.

So, google is definitely a platform. More fragmented and more open than Apple, but nonetheless a platform. And a very successful one at that.

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