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Re:Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010 by webwright on Monday May 10, 2010 @02:49PM (#1335547)
I can think of a major market: operating systems.

Phones aren't like cars, they are more like computers (and becoming more so).

Re:Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010 by revaaron on Monday May 10, 2010 @05:55PM (#1336066)
I'd argue that phones are becoming a lot less like computers and more like cars. At least the iPhone as an example, phones are becoming more and more an information appliance, taken for granted to "just work."

They might be able to do a lot of the things that a "real" computer does but you don't have the power to treat them like regular computers. You can't easily put a new OS on them, write software for them without going through a central market place, etc. Apple obviously has this vision, but it's becoming clear that Microsoft shares it, at least for Windows Phone 7.

Re:Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010 by jamesbritt on Monday May 10, 2010 @03:55PM (#1335728)
Right. People own a variety of computers. Different models of Dell, HP, sony, apple., etc.
Re:Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010 by Retric on Monday May 10, 2010 @04:52PM (#1335899)
Also known as: Windows, Windows, Windows, or OS X.
Re:Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010 by jamesbritt on Monday May 10, 2010 @11:20PM (#1336760)
Or Intel, Intel, Intel ...

You can pick the abstraction level to suit the argument.