Even before the new Android operating system was unveiled, Android phones were outselling the iPhone. The race has now gotten tougher for Apple with the unveiling of new Android operating system which crushes the iPhone. It is faster and offers tethering – a feature that essentially turns your phone into a portable hotspot to provide web access to other gadgets. Google demonstrated Droid’s tethering functionality at the I/O developers conference by tethering an iPhone to a Droid (the iPhone doesn’t offering tethering.)
Apple has shown their disdain for Adobe by refusing to support Adobe’s flash player on the must-have iPhone as well as their newly launched iPad. Apple could get away with this pointless corporate bullying while they dominated the smart phone market. Enter Android phones from iPhone and the corporate bullying turns into a massive product liability. The Android phones now support Flash.
AT&T is now in a bind. They’ve recently revealed that their exclusive (and presumably very expensive) deal with Apple lasts to 2012. They have an inferior network (so cleverly demonstrated by Verizon’s “there’s a map” for that campaign), and now an inferior phone. Still clinging to your iPhone? Try reading Sayonara, iPhone: Why I’m Switching to Android from Newsweek tech writer Daniel Lyons.
