Originally Posted by
dtsm
And FT'ers are always the first to know. Many thanks!
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Yes, millions. But still relatively 'small' to the overall market. And Android phones are catching up to iPhones+iPads....could see them surpass apple by year end? And what happens to all the old phones - guess that's our problem....LOL.
I realize that, I was probably not as clear as I should have been. The point I was trying to make is that while Apple is a small player in the market they have a lot of power. And because they only release one phone a year that phone has even more power. Look at the Nexus One. It was suppose to be free and open though carriers ended up passing on it because they knew that they could wait a few months and have a superior Android phone fine tuned to their network. Imagine if the N1 has a microSIM, carriers would have been even less eager to pick it up as they would have no guarantee that the standard would stick around and be meaningful in only a few months.