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Microsoft says Android is not free
CLUTCHING AT STRAWS, Microsoft has said that Google's open source operating system is not free as Windows Mobile sales get overtaken by Android.
Executives at the Vole's lair outside Seattle must be quaking their boots. While Microsoft is still holding out on the release of Windows Phone 7, the world has moved on to Android based smartphones. This has seen handsets running Android jump over those running Microsoft's Windows Mobile in the US smartphone market, according to Comscore's latest results.
For the first time in a long time, anticipation of a Microsoft product release is actually high, given the positive appraisals Windows Phone 7 demos received earlier this year. But is it going to be too little, too late for the Vole.
Google has hit the number three spot in the smartphone sales figures with Android and is narrowly behind Apple and RIM. Comscore took the averages of results in the US during the three month period ending July 2010 compared to the preceding three-month averages.
So how has Microsoft reacted to the news that Google's Android is outperforming its mobile software sales? By randomly lashing out, despite being defanged and declawed, to suggest that Android can't be free because of alleged patent infringements.
As Marketwatch noted yesterday, a Microsoft financial officer, Tivanka Ellawala responsed to questions about open source models. Ellawala was asked if open source models created problems for vendors with licensed software.
"It does infringe on a bunch of patents, and there's a cost associated with that," Ellawala said. "So there's a... cost associated with Android that doesn't make it free."
While Google will have to answer allegations about patent infringements in Android, that doesn't mean open source isn't free. It's like saying that everything always costs something therefore nothing is ever really free.
Microsoft should try telling that to the millions of people who are already using Android smartphones. µ
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And cost alot cheaper then any M$ system (which nothing works).
I think some folk are blinkered to reality, they assume MS products are all crap, they conveniently forget what MS has done for computing.
WP7 may or may not be any good, I dont know, ive only played with an emulator. I can tell you this tho, im all up for change, I have a nice HTC HD2 which is running WM 6.5.3 and Sence 2, its also running Android 2.2. I think they are both very good, they both are very stable, and very fast, they both look great
but here is the point, the only thing android brings to the market that MS doesnt is an App store that is overflowing with stuff.
Now in my opinion after looking at some of the apps, its mostly crap.
So i will stand up and say that WM6.5.3 thats properly configured with a user that knows how to use it, is just as good as android 2.2. i can not be alone in thinking this and im quite sure im not the only intelligent person capable of using their device properly
So im going to make a dig at everyone, against WM and android users
If you say X OS is crap then you are either too stupid to use it, or youve never used it
Have a good day :)
Since when does anyone at Microsoft think they can reasonably preach about the cost of something given away for free? GMail is free, and yet it costs Google to operate it. So what if her claims about Android "costing" something is true, so long as Google still foots the bill it can be free to users anyway. Just like Microsoft constantly gives away their software in reaction to governments that decide not to pay for it anymore.
Nobody I know wants a MS based phone. MS should give it up. Can't sell a product on it's merits? Bash the competition, seems a more and more common strategy of theirs.
Everyone I know either has a Blackberry, iPhone, Android, or wants one of the three. Never a MS phone.
If you look at past history, if MS perseveres with their attempt to penetrate the smartphone market, they may eventually succeed; it just becomes a matter of how much money and expertise they'll throw at the problem. The technology keeps improving, and a strategic decision might be made to introduce a handheld gaming device that may evolve in one or more generations to be also capable of telephoning.
Yea an Android will never beat out the iPhone. DOH!
Microsoft gaming console who will buy that? Uh Oh!
I love how people comment making statements that are a relative as saying well Apple OSX outsold Window ME. We Rock! Add a dash of referencing sales numbers to a device that hasn't even been released. Sounds to me like a number of people angry they cant upgrade to the Windows Mobile 7 device or just people that hate Microsoft in general and say the same crap every time they release a product.
I think when you try the device yourself you will see Microsoft has a great product. Better than iPhone and in some areas better than Android and in some cases needs a little tweaking.
According to Comscore ...
"Smartphone Platform Market Share
53.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in July, up 11 percent from the corresponding April period. RIM was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 39.3 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, followed by Apple with 23.8 percent share. Google saw significant growth during the period, rising 5.0 percentage points to capture 17.0 percent of smartphone subscribers. Microsoft accounted for 11.8 percent of Smartphone subscribers, while Palm rounded out the top five with 4.9 percent. Despite losing share to Google Android, most smartphone platforms continue to gain subscribers as the smartphone market overall continues to grow."
These figures indicate that Nokia (comnbined with Samsung, LG, Ericsson etc) constitute <= 2.9% if the installed "SmartPhone" market.
In some ways I agree with Microsoft. How do handset manufacturers justify charging consumers $200 or more for an OS platform that is free? Meanwhile Apple, BlackBerry and others charge consumers the same for an OS platform they invested in from ground up.
"So it's confirmed then: They'll never learn."
As long as Ballmer's at the helm, Microsoft will be hoist on their own retard.
Gawd! Sounds just like 2001 when Microsoft was whinging incessantly about the patent infringements / cost / cancer-like-properties of Linux.
So it's confirmed then: They'll never learn.
I have never liked Microsoft since dos.
If there OS actually worked and was secure it might be different. And if I had a choice whether to buy it or not would be nice.
The fact is once you use Linux for a while you can see it is clearly better,maybe not perfect but safer and faster than Windows.When you can't really be better you only option is to resort to lying,which Microsoft is good at.I don't or never will own a smart phone but I am a big fan of Linux and it's versatility and speed.