Andrew Orlowski: ‘Why Android Won’t Worry RIM and Apple’

Andrew Orlowski:

The Android licensees think that today — but throwing out lots of mediocre products isn’t the passport to success. The lucrative end of the mobile device market is a product culture, and it pays to put more of your wood behind one arrow, or just a few arrows; the more you make, the less distinctive each one is. Android doesn’t really do anything to encourage the development and marketing of distinctive products, must-have phones that people talk about in the pub.

I agree. Where are the people who love their Android phones who aren’t computer geeks. Non-geek iPhone and BlackBerry lovers are everywhere.

Update: Pushback on Twitter, example A, example B.

★ Wednesday, 25 August 2010