Gosh , seems like it ’s been a month or more since some otiose scribe has lectured us on how Android versus iOS is just a retelling of Windows versus the Mac .
Do n’t repeat usually show in the summertime , with fresh show in the fall ? The Macalope supposes no one refer that toPCWorld ’s Joseph Fieber , who ’s only just divulge the tritest argument of this spring and summer ( tip o ’ the antler toThe Four Misanthropes of the Apocalypse ) .
Smartphones and tablets are becoming the microcomputer of our time , and there are two major players in the plot . Apple ’s iOS and Google ’s Android dominate smartphones , with RIM and Microsoft being ecological niche players .
It all feels very familiar , harking back to the Mac vs. personal computer struggle — and analyst Jack Brown evoke the outcome will be the same , with Android overshadow by 2014 .
Seriously ? Joe , we ’ve been through this . Not just a couple of times . We ’ve been through itoverand over and over and , oh , heck , you discover the rest of the connectedness . Why should the Macalope do all the work ?
This is apparently the Rasputin of arguments . No matter how many time we dissipate , twinge , poison , and swim it , it keeps come back .
Microsoft released Windows not long after Apple ’s introduction of the Mac , and as it improved , more software became available for the PC .
DOS , seemingly , never existed . In 1984 , both society started from zero and the race begin on a perfectly even footing .
find your favorite software on the Mac is a challenge since befool for both platforms can be expensive …
Joe has apparently just arrived in a fourth dimension machine from 1998 with a fresh batch of their modish intellection and is service it to us piping red-hot . He pass an dreadful mountain of time edumacating us on how we get where we are today , all the while blissfully ignore any number of inconvenient facts .
The Android Market matured and is on tread to overtake Apple ’s App Store within months .
Overtake it in what ? Joe does n’t say , but presumably he ’s talking about app downloads or number of available apps . What he is decidedlynottalking about isapp tax revenue .
Ovum said that the iPhone will continue to dominate the market for paid applications , with app receipts expected to gain $ 2.86 billion in 2016 , compare with $ 1.5 billion for Android .
Uhhh , yeah . And yet we ’re theorize to believe that developers are going to flee iOS in orderliness to go not make money ride for Android . Right .
But Joe ’s not done manducate this rubber bone he found !
The innovative , single - vender scheme sets the tone and gets former adopter , but the mainstream role player with multiple seller win in the close due to lower costs and greater assortment of options .
Please specify “ winnings ” here , Joe , while remembering that Apple continues to walk away with more gain than anyone else , including Google — which owes two - thirds of its mobile ad revenue to iOS . Because that account hasgotto be really , really funny .
Should you build your IT plan around iPads since they presently dominate the market place ? Or , do you expect a bit longer and design your plan around Android tablets , knowing they ’re more potential to be the long - term platform in the end ?
Ugh , do we really have to go through this again ? badly , how long do we have to keep repeating the material for the slower students in the class ?
Android OEMs have shipped more phones because the carriers get better terms from them than they can from Apple , so they push them intemperately to consumers . This personnel is all miss in pill . The Macalope ’s no fan of Microsoft ’s tablet approach , but if market share is your big affair ( which it should n’t be ) , who ’s to say what effect it ’ll have ?
By the direction , everyone acts like the microcomputer wars are over . They ’re not . Is the Mac ever going to take a large market part ? That seems ridiculously far - fetched . Still , it ’s clawing back a little more every day . EvenForrester Research now says businesses should welcome Macs , for crying out loudly , but here come Fieber waving a white newspaper on the honest IT drill from the flush of Blind Melon .
With today ’s virtualization , remote access options , and swarm computer science , compatibility is less of an issue , but managing hardware still is . In the end , wait for Android tablets is the secure bet .
Totally ! Why deploy iPads and benefit from them now when youcouldwaitsix yearsuntil Androidmightbe dominant and deploy something that’sa security nightmare ?
delight your rotten drug user experience , unlucky denizens of pot that take Joe ’s advice !
Come on , Joe . Catch up to the rest of us already .
