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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
I have to disagree on that as a blanket statement. iPhone users may use their phones as fashion accessories first and communications devices second (I've seen this more times than I can count), but I haven't seen that trend with Android phones. Thus far, that crowd has been made up of:
1. Early adopters,
2. employees of forward-thinking companies (and of course Motorola & Google; presumably others such as HTC)
3. technologically savvy and/or geeks.
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It wasn't intended to apply to
everybody. But there are hundreds of millions of cellphones in use, to the point where the landline is becoming an endangered species in some places. Most users are just that - users. They place and receive calls, do SMS, play ringtones, and possibly play games. If their phone is equipped with a camera, they probably take pictures. They may do other things, but the vast majority probably don't do more than scratch the surface of what the phone can do.
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Where I work, I'm one of 2 Droid X owners. The other guy shows his off every chance he gets; I use mine in all the ways it's designed to be used, but I'm not in any hurry to go flashing it around. Let 'em get their own. The lone remaining iPhone owner knows he's outgunned and doesn't say anything to me.
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The Droid is a dandy geek toy. But the appeal pretty much has to be beyond the cases you cite. It has done well enough to put Motorola back into the cellphone race, when they were rumored to be looking to exit the business. That requires more than geeks/early adopters.
One bit that isn't clear is how much name recognition Android has, and how much the fact that the phone uses Android as the OS influences a purchase decision. If two phones have similar designs and feature sets, will a user pick the Android phone
because it uses Android? I suspect Android is now a factor in the purchase decision. I just don't know how big a factor it is.
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Dennis