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Android is based on the Linux kernel which was started by a man in Finland and maintained by a man with a beard in Wales. It's also heavily based around Java which was invented by a Canadian. All Android hardware available so far has, as Ben mentioned, been designed and built by HTC in Taiwan.
The iPhone is famously designed by Apple in Cupertino and built in China (presumably by underpaid workers). The principal designer of the iPhone is Jonathan Ive who comes from Chingford which is on the border of London and Essex, about 5 miles away from Chigwell which was the location for the 1980's BBC Sitcom "Birds of a Feather" which was about two wives of robbers currently serving a sentence in prison and has absolutely nothing to do with mobile phones but it served as the acme of british humour of the period, much the same way Dad's Army did in the decades preceeding it... what did America have? M*A*S*H? Pfft remind me what the outcome of Vietnam was again?... speaking of war, it wasn't so long ago that the American's fought for their independence from the British and there are many people who believe that this independence should be revoked poste-haste... especially if American's are going to continue to prattle on about how much better the US of A is when they feel they have even the slightest advantage... there is such a thing as a sore winner you know!
(This post is, of course, meant in jest. I love our colonial cousins and the contributions they have made to my waistline... cheeseburgers and V8 engines FTW... oh wait, the V8 is a French invention)
Or are you talking about the spanish beggar who shook her cup at you while we were filming? ISTR she got a stern shouting at as well.
No wait... this was supposed to be a calmer look at the facts.
Damn it... :-)
http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/27/magazines/fortu...
A huge percentage of yanks are still utilising two baked bean tins connected by a bit of wet string, Analogue networks in the US were only phased out last year, they stopped selling analogue phones here in 1997!
The US leads the world in hype and bullshit and that's about it :)
Thanks for reading and commenting.
Americans are hugely patriotic when it comes to buying anything, i think Apple market share is something in the order of 2% amongst the more discerning Brits :)
Ten years ago you were lucky to get a 3rd-gen behind wap-phone in New York. Granted, the iPhone as dragged the US kicking-and-screaming into the 21st century, and is a brilliant device, but still...
Kind of like... you get your license and turn up at work with your brand-new sports car, and give it "I rule! I can drive anywhere!". At which point your friends, who have been driving for ten years, shake their heads and say "whatever... nice car though" ;)
There is a seed change going on as regards the importance of apps in respect of the purchasing public, but you cannot take the market situation in the US and use it as a template to measure market conditions in other continents because they vary to a great degree.
...and Android is far from a US-only endeavour.
states, razor? USA generally speaking is where mobile tech goes to die. I have Chinese farmers carrying better mobile phones then your average north american. But I do agree with one thing, most Normal Mobile Users talk/text and not a hell of a lot more. Iphone/android/(pre) are changing that by being easy, useful, and dead sexy devices to use/deploy/and program for.
I'm off to introduce my yankey friend the my favorite chinese farmer. rice anyone?
its just a deliberate 'look at me' polemic piece to a blog
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The tech elite and the plain geeks are a very small proportion of the population. Their use of mobile's does not extend to the general public who make up the vast majority of the market share.
From my visits to the America and Europe, and from the podcasts I hear, I conclude that the average American is in the mobile stone-age compared to the average UK or European mobile user.
Yes, the iPhone has introduced many people to a robust mobile experience. But it has also introduced them to terms like "jailbreak" as they hate the restrictive and expensive plans forced on the by AT&T, not to mention the restrictions of where they can get their apps from.
But that's all most have known in the US - what they were told. From my own personal experience, even the most novice, non-technical mobile phone owner uses SMS, MMS and wonders why Americans have to throw out a phone when they switch providers.
Interesting how there has been no mention about Motorola, whose last innovative device was the StarTac.
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thing but you've summed it up perfectly here. Europe is not Nokia. Also, Scoble seems to switch between talking about Europe's mobile industry and Europe's
mobile users throughout his post. It came across as quite a confused post to me...
I love the iPhone but its not a guaranteed way to monetise the mobile web. End of!
We do want to find out what people really use their phones for and have created a survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JW74DefYZ...
I have been involved in creating apps for Windows Mobile ( www.capturatalk.com ) which still has a considerable chunk of the smartphone market share and gives users a lot more freedom than the iPhone which needs to be jail broken to do anything useful. Yes the WM user interface is clunky but manufacturers such as HTC have created their own skins for the interface which make it really quite workable.
Europe has to watch out but so does America has the dominant handset manufacturers are in the far east! True mobile innovation is happening in Japan, China and Korea yet no one seems to mention that..