Martin Hill

The Ongoing Smartphone Revolution

This couple of sentences in particular raises plenty of eyebrows:

"If I were in the market right now, I would want a Google Android device. The combination of features and benefits puts it at the top of the heap. Unfortunately Google, for all their technical brilliance, are very bad at marketing. So Apple, who are absolutely brilliant at marketing, continue to outperform with their inferior iPhone."

The HTC G1, the first and so far only Android phone has been widely panned as buggy, clunky, fat, lacking the ability to synch with Exchange, with inconsistent interfaces in each of the bundled apps, no integrated Music store, movie store, TV shows, podcasts, few apps available from the Android Market, no peripheral ecosystem like the 3,000+ peripherals available for the iPhone/iPod etc.

How this translates into putting Android at the top of the heap at this point in time boggles the mind.

Perish the thought that the iPhone might have a feature or two that justifies the hype around it.

-Mart

The Ongoing Smartphone Revolution

Great analysis from those above commenting on what is a very poorly written article by Bruce Everiss.

Bruce, you really need to learn how to ground your arguments with examples and reasons for anyone to take you seriously.

And please Apple haters like crazylegs, could you give some justification to your own arguments rather than launching a "fanboi" attack? It would be much more constructive and might even get you some respect rather than a collective rolling of the eyes.

thankee.

-Mart