Loading ...While Apple and its latest version of the iPhone, 3GS, have topped recent headlines, there is still a tremendous amount of buzz building about Google’s phone, nicknamed the gPhone. Michael Martin, who maintains a Google-approved blog for Android information called Google And Blog, predicts the summer to be promising for Android and says there will be 18 Android devices circulating by the end of this year.
The phone manufacturers of Android include HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola, and Huawei. The service providers are T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Rogers, and Vodaphone. Michael said Sprint would jump on board next year as well.
So, how are Apple and iPhone lovers responding to all this hype? To that question, Michael answered, “That’s a good question!” The primary difference between Android and Apple is that Android is open source and Apple is not. Michael does not believe Apple will relinquish its control and compares the situation to the 1980′s scenario of Mac vs. PC.
What do you think of all this buzz? Are you an iPhone fan or are you anxious to get your hands on Google’s Ion?
I guess the SEOMoz LinkJuice I was drinking messed up explaining the weekly ATO videos as All Things Internet rather than the proper name of All Things ONLINE
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
not a surprise you didn’t know what you were talking about after the “show” you put on.
Ouch!
I welcome the debate
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‘compares the situation to the 1980’s scenario of Mac vs. PC.’
Yes, exactly!
I think Apple leant from their mistake – hence they have a huge App store because they knew they had to make their product accessible to developers.
The Apple App Store will be the death of Pre and Nokia’s N97, Android makes it but whilst Android appeals to the geeks, Apple appeals to all – I think Android will succeed as a niche whilst iPhone continues to dominate the market…
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Really nice video. But what about the new Garmin and Asus mobile cell phone: the nuvifone? I would like to know which one should be the best phone device!
I know Garmin is overhauling and switching over to Android for its future phones.
ASUS will come out w an Android phone and/or smartbook running Android in the near future.
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
It is number of Apps being written worldwide for the iPhone that really gives it an advantage. Both great phones.
@Chris,
You are absolutely right!
Developers and their applications are critical to a smartphones success and the iPhone has a great edge there currently.
This is why Google gave away FREE Android phones to the 4000+ developers at Google IO the other month.
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
Reaindg this makes my decisions easier than taking candy from a baby.
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Apple have really done their homework.
Go back 10 years the mass bought Nokia for one reason the interface it provided was simple and nice to use, apple have an interface on the Iphone that is simple, quick and funcky.
Second the Mobile phone really has become a trend and like anything people want brand and I beleive apple have a brand that really has changed in the past 5 years, it has become a brand people want, trust and one of quality “The Lous of technical brands”
The apps on the phone are also nice and you have lots, but the services that apple bolt on are also easy to the general public with thing like the rental of DVD.
The thing I find strange with the Iphone and that is its name I”phone” yes it has the guts of a phone and the apps to utilise it but it is much much more thought they would have tried to remove the phone like Blackberry or Hoover etc
Chris
Nice Video, we have to wait and see.. which one is good in the long run.
Great marketing guy, looks really professional: goofy T-Shirt and sipping on a “whatever keeps me going” drink right out of the can. Just the guy I would trust my marketing campaign with. Truly, I am going to throw away my iPhone and buy an Android – you are my hero Mike “way to go”. Oh, and I will send you a coupon for Dillards (which equals two steps up from the present attire) – get some descent clothes man …. oh and go to the nearest trash can and fish out an iphone – you never know
I’m surprised he didn’t hell, “GO SOONERS!” at the end or something.
@Tomcat, I hear what you are saying about my attire, valid points, in my defense I can only say it was the day after I spoke on the panel and I quickly changed into the T-Shirt from a friend who was promoting her company as it was MUCH warmer in Seattle than I was prepared for.
The drink I kept sipping was “Link Juice” that SEOMoz was giving away at the conference which was plastered over assumably Red Bull cans.
PS – @Paul, If I was going have an “Odyle Rulz” moment I would probably shout out for the Red Sawx being I am from Boston
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
I love the iphone looks and the availability of apps but take it from someone who has had hardware problems with this phone, you don’t want to deal with the hassles. In most instances, you have to go to an apple store and take a number. I don’t know about you but I don’t own more than one phone so I know one will be working so when my phone doesn’t work, I cannot wait forever for a fix. Buyer beware!
….aaaand going to the Verizon store with a LG or Nokia POS hardware problem is any different??? …and when did you go to the Apple store for this “caveat emptor experience”, 2pm on a Saturday, at peek shopping traffic.
Now, I’m not saying that the iPhone is better or worse than any other phone but your comments don’t really validate….well, pretty much anything.
At any given time in any given Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, or Nextel store, you have to wait in line while 3 numbties try to pay their bills and try to talk the service person out of the reactivation fee, because they couldn’t pay their bill because of some “child support payment issue”… Then grandma needs help getting her voicemail…but can’t remember her vmail password…of course. Finally, you get some *kid* who’s on his 2nd day on the job at the store, because turn-over in these places is HORRIBLE. You finally get a manager after 20 minutes of the “new guy” starring at your phone with a look on his face like you asked him to answer how to fix the economy in 10 words or less…and he’s never even heard the word “AIG” before… Then the manager tells you that they j u s t stopped carrying that line of phone and asks if you have the $5 per month protection plan, which you don’t. BUT, if you do, the manager alerts you that they had to ship all of the old models back to the vendor and it will be 5 business days for the phone vendor to mail you a brand new old-model phone that you didn’t really like to begin with…..AND you’ve paid $5/mo x 20 months, which you’ve now paid $100 dollars for a brand-spanking new POS Nokia that you originally only paid $80 for. Good times…
OH, and some how, some way, when you leave the store, you’ve been forced to renew your contract for two-more years!!!! …and you don’t even know why!!!!
It’s just as bad in those stores….at least the Apple store people are *knowledgeable*….
That’s hot, I really like this website and this post was really informative, great stuff guys keep it up!
The iPhone will have some real competition when BUZZirk Mobile launches in July 2000…
Abby was very flirtatious. Little minx
I don’t understand how they’d get away with local area marketing on mobile phones, surely there are privacy laws and things that stop things being transmitted freely to your phone?
I’d imagine it would be an “opt-in” setting.
Correct this would more likely come from the freebie smartphones that are being planned to be given away toward 2010 that will come with the hitch of embedded advertising based on when and where you are.
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndbLog
cool.. then i’ll use my htc touch flow until HTC comes out with Android.
HTC came out w the first Android device, the G1 back in October.
There is also the 2nd generation Android device made also by HTC that is out in Europe, Asia, & Canada as the Magic.
This phone will come out in the US in the coming weeks as the myTouch 3G which is similar to the Ion phone Google gave away last month at Google IO.
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
iphone is king. if you are looking for advanced technology look for apple. the money is not a problem, so save it to buy the best.
the rest is just a copy, maybe better or not, that is the mater for everyone. pick what you need or what you belive.
Well that was a little one sided. I love the competition as it will just mean better solutions for everyone. Apple won’t take this sitting down and neither will Google. If the open source vs commercial history has shown us anything is that open source will eventually lose on the big scale.
I am sticking with my pager until this cell phone fade goes away…:P
@Chris,
Good point as its healthy competition – I respect the iPhone as to what it started and being the standard bearer.
At the same point I am not a fan of the way Apple does things and appreciated Android from its inception along with knowing the engineers & developers to whats coming up that keeps me excited.
PS – Surprised you jumped into a pager from the Styrofoam cup on a string setup
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
how will an open market lose in the end? i would rather have more options rather than take it or leave it,
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What a misleading title for this video, I was looking for a comparison, not some sloppy guy bashing the iPhone. Please stop interviewing fanbois and do some creative research for videos and news.
Super weak blog post…
@Brian,
I was trying to counterbalance the obvious iPhone sway since most people know about what it is and can do.
I respect the iPhone, but wanted to convey the Android uprising below the general consumer aware surface.
I am not a Google fanboi although I am a proponent for some of their underlying technology WHEN I examine it – not purely lockstep with whatever they do and exclaim its greater than sliced bread (as most fanbois in general do)
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
Yes WebPro, People love pop-up ad’s!!!! I would love my phone to be taken over by ad’s. Walk by a biulding and 50 ad’s pop-up. Google pop-up blocker in reverse.
This came to my email suggesting a comparison. This guy was enough to make me unsubscribe from your service. To simply dismiss a product because, well, I’m just not a fan so throw it in the trash?
Bad form. Good bye!
I have to agree. It’s not good reporting to dis a product based on a “feeling” or one person’s opinion. WPN should have added a disclaimer to this type of video to protect themselves whether they feel the iPod was “trash” or not. Now it’s painfully obvious that WPN is joining the ranks of severely biased “reporting”. Wonder if they made money to post this by Android?
Yes my view was slanted since I an UNaffiliated advocate of Android – pretty obvious from my site.
Its not WPN’s view but purely my own without any excuses.
I do NOT dismiss the iPhone as I say continually, I respect what it started and it IS the current standard bearer.
I am simply providing a different view from what I feel I am educated on via research as well interaction with the engineers, developers, and users of Android.
I welcome a healthy debate as I am not a blind fundamentalist follower (fanboi) of Android, but I dont make any excuses for being a proponent of it.
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
>>I respect what it started and it IS the current standard bearer.<<
“Throw it in the trash”
Weird way to show respect. What the heck would you say if you HATED IT??
Nice Video, we have to wait and see.. which one is good in the long run.
This is hilarious! The iPhone is the ubiquitous mobile computing device. If you don’t think it is, you haven’t used it (which Michael obviously doesn’t). As much as people talk about Android, I’ve never met anyone who WANTS one. Never seen one, and the buzz isn’t nearly as sunny online as he seems to believe.
On the streets, the phone that everyone wants is the iPhone, and consumer demand is EVERYTHING in this space. Unless Apple REALLY messes up something, it will be almost inconceivable that the Android device will even be around by 2011.
@Scott,
I have used the iPhone and educated on what it does, etc.
I accept it started a new era and is still the standard to compare to.
Do I think Android is better in the here and now – NO, but its getting much closer.
I was actually surprised how much closer that gap with what the iPhone 3GS came out w – a lot of its “new” features were ALREADY on the Android phone, some as far back as last year.
There were some great improvements which to my knowledge speaking with the Android engineers will actually be on the next Android update in the coming months – so the gap will continually narrow – especially as assumably the next version of the iPhone will have to wait another year as 20+ continually improved Android phones comes out from various manufacturers.
I am willing to bet with you on Android being around in 2011 (Im sure iPhone will as well – Symbian I am most doubtful will be)
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
Hi. I have to say that the video is a big turn-off for me for anything BUT the iPhone and I don’t even own an iPod and I use a pre-paid Tracfone. I’ve read a lot of comments that were left and I see I’m not the only one who feels slighted by the extremely one-sided views presented here. To slam another company as badly as Michael Martin did is NOT good publicity for his company or those that he supports. He’s more than welcome to his own opinion but should be more diplomatic if he hopes to steer people away from iPhone. Before this video I’d say go for it to any company that wanted to compete against Apple. (Apple did it first…) so copy them and try to make it better. Apple will counter with something even better. Better for US. However, after watching this I would actually giggle if Android tanked.
@Jeaniep,
I welcome the healthy debate
My intention was not necessarily to be diplomatic, although I didnt want to be disrespectful, but to at least stir up the mindset that smartphones are all iPhones.
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
I’m sorry Michael but what you said in your interview was entirely disrespectful and happily so. I understand that you may prefer a different brand than others but when you tell people to throw their iPhone in the garbage you are telling them, in a nutshell, that they are stupid and have made a bad choice. Again, all your video did for me was make me not to want to even know what Android is. I don’t care for narrow-mindedness and that’s all I got from your video. If I were in the market for a phone I would probably give more attention to the iPhone and not just because of your rant but because they are the leaders in this. I think THAT deserves some respect.
well he didn’t make android, and just because he “disrespected iPhone” you don’t want to know what android is? that is the most retarded thing I’ve ever herd, if you follow that logic you’ll never buy or learn about anything, thats part of advertisement, even McDonald’s and Burger King do the same thing, and if I’m not mistaken don’t apple have a commercial disrespecting pc portraying the “mac” and the “pc” with humans? apple dose make good products and the iPhone is great but i own a G1 and would recommend it over iPhone any day, learn the facts and judge with an unbiased opinion more than likely G1 will win, it dose more, has more, cost less and has a open platform, android isn’t as popular now but wait a year, you wont be able to turn around without seeing one, just like Myspace, Facebook, and Google, they were out for a while and most people never heard of them, then over night everybody was using it, only time will tell how android will do, but I’m sure it would be a good idea to buy stock in it.
the stock comment was sarcasm if you didn’t notice.
As a rabid Apple fan my response to your question is:
Android who?
http://www.twitter.com/divinemisswhite
We should talk/debate to bring a healthy back and forth educating each other on the pros/cons.
,Michael Marting
GoogleAndBlog
I’m an iPhone user and being a web developer and SEO I’ve heard and seen quite a bit about the Android phone online. But honestly I have never seen anyone with one out on the “streets”.
From what I’ve observed iPhone pretty much has the market cornered on this. And I’m willing to bet that the average person has even heard of an Android phone.
@SEOsean,
I see the same thing, but also (now I am dating myself), I remember in the 80s when most everywhere were Apple IIEs…then the PCs started creeping in before taking over mass appeal.
I envision the same happening with Android as we enter 2010.
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
after blackberry, then iphone, gphone, then what next….? thats all.
Right now, iPhone is the best option, but soon gPhone will get the market share.
@SEOCanada,
Agreed – for most it is currently.
2010 the tide will turn the other way – In my opinion.
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
Lets wait and watch.
I have been holding off getting an iPhone as I need voice turn by turn GPS when out in the car as well as the other options currently available on iPhone. However, I am open to options. This video didn’t tell me anything useful except that I am going to be told where to but 2 for 1 sandwiches. Great, now I can really pile on the pounds!!
@SKETCH3D
The next Android update coming out in a few months will have the talk back feature which can be used for Turn by Turn directions as well a speaking translation service.
It will be freebie smartphones (or certain apps) in 2010 that will come with that “2 for 1″ GPS advertising I was talking about.
,Michael Martin
GoogleAndBlog
ouch! ouch! ouch! lets debate for the new technology. share your ideas and findings and hopefully we will have a chance to get gphone coz iphone is not available in our part of the the world. they are made for americans only i think. nice video and nice information on the video.
I just bought a 2g iphone from a friend. I am currently a blackberry user. I will give it a college try, but so far the onscreen keyboard is super annoying on the iphone. that may be enough for me to dump the iphone. my coworker and roommate both have the gphone. So far after playing with both iphone and gphone, the keyboard will always prevail, especially if you want to use the device for any real computing. that cannot be disputed.
All of you apple/android worshippers need to take a chill pill and relaxxxx. If you’re upset, fighting fire with fire does nothing. Try listing why the Iphone of the Androidphone is better. You may think your protecting your brand/phone, but honestly you’re just as biased. Thankfully Michael Martin is a very open-minded person and suprisingly doesn’t take offense to some of these ridiculous comments. When you get down to the bone of it, they’re all just phones. And when you get to the even uglier truth, no one really cares what you think about it. With that said, I will say that the video wasn’t harsh at all and only showed one man’s pov. As he says, debate is good. But, I hope some of you realize that debates are based on facts not random fanboy offense. Leave comments that make sense… not ruin the possibility of you having one.
What was the about 2 for 1 deals?
If I EVER walked past a McDonalds and they sent me a text about offers on their McLardo food, they will wish they never bothered.
I detest advertising in all its forms. It destroys every wonderful media man has been given.
One thing this guy fails to realise is Apple have a hardcore following – like no other brand have – these people would go without any phone rather than defect to someone that hates Apple.
I personally couldn’t care less about any mobile – can’t stand the things – but this guys petty comments put me right off looking at any site he recommends.
Right now, iPhone is the best option, but soon gPhone will get the market share
To be fairly honest with you. Its not the operating sysytem people love about iphone. Its the softness and touch sensitivity system people like. Many brands try to compete with iphone but of no vail. Nokia came out with N97 and it was a flop. I am not sure about Google’s droid but the upcoming Nokia’s Aeon http://www.domesticutilities.com/aeon.htm might bring problems for iphone with it. So lets see who wins slow and steady or fast
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IPhone is much better than gPhone, because it’s best seller phone of it’s time.
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I just bought a 2g iphone from a friend. I am currently a blackberry user. I will give it a college try, but so far the onscreen keyboard is super annoying on the iphone. that may be enough for me to dump the iphone. my coworker and roommate both have the gphone. So far after playing with both iphone and gphone, the keyboard will always prevail, especially if you want to use the device for any real computing. that cannot be disputed.
Wow!
you are a new comer so i welcome you with all respect.
Even if right now iPhone is the best option, soon gPhone will get the top of the market. And as all Google’s products it will dominate the market.
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