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I want to add...
When talking about the issues that plague Android handsets and tablets - it is easy to forget that the original iPad had an issue with WiFi, DHCP and certain home routers. It is easy to forget Antenna-gate or the recent issues with Siri. But in general, Apple has their bases well covered when they do a release to market of their iOS devices. It seems like they've got better testing and QA programs in place. Motorola should know darned-well before they release the Razr that the camera is taking worse photographs at 8MP than a Droid 2 at 5MP. I think they *do* know - and they go ahead and release anyhow. I think in the case of the Razr, they made the darn thing so small that they couldn't get the same quality of optics in the camera-bulge as they could in an older, thicker device. Rather than delay and figure out how to address this problem they reasoned, "people will buy it because it is thin, and then realize the camera is worse than what they had, but by then, it'll be too late and they'll just live with it". This is a short-term strategy with long term consequences and one Apple seems to avoid better. If Apple couldn't make the iPhone thinner without depreciating the quality of the camera compared to the previous generation, I have no doubt they would delay the thinner device until they figured out how to overcome that challenge. Too many Android vendors seem intent on cashing in quickly. Apple plays a long term game. If top-tier Android handset manufacturers don't get on the ball and realize this - they're going to inevitably give up market share to Apple. I don't think it will ever be to the point where Apple gains an insurmountable lead... at least, not anytime soon. But they'll loose customers, and many of those customers are going to go to iOS.
Posted by dcolbert@...
20th Jan 2012

































