Comments on: Opening Weekend: iPhone vs. Pre vs. Droid

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:55:37 +0000

Apple iphone3g was a good phone, but what people should now is that their updates are like Trojan viruses, my phone is such garbage now and so slow, if you have an iPhone whatever you do, don’t update your phone, you be so sorry, can’t till my contract is up so I can go to verizon and get the droid, apple should be buying their customers phone back

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Weekend Box Office: iPad vs. the iPhone 3G — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:12:20 +0000

[...] weekend iPhone became available in July 2007. In July 2008 when the 3G iPhone first launched, Apple sold 1 million of those phones over the weekend after its Friday launch, and folks downloaded 10 million apps from the four-day [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:08:44 +0000

THE DROID WAS ONLY LAUNCHED IN 1 (ONE) COUNTRY………………..

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:48:32 +0000

i think the Google Nexus will be a better competitor for the iPhone. But for now I still prefer the iPhone cuz it has the coolness factor.

By: BIG PERM

BIG PERM — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:35:05 +0000

I have had them side by side. Very objective. Very openminded.

Not even close.

Driod lags lags after 2 apps, not a user friendly.

Long way to go but maybe someday Driod will surpass the iPhone

By: iphonelover

iphonelover — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:59:27 +0000

I currently own a blackberry storm and an iphone 3GS and work for a phone store where the new DROIDS are sold. I am sitting with all four phones in front of me and decided to test their speed of going to websites and this what i found: my iPhone won hands down, fully downloaded a full website in 3-5 seconds and im in limitted service area, also they were websites not loaded on any phone before and tried several different times. My iPhone won every time! Then in second place just a couple of seconds behind was the Motorola Droid which i must say is quite fast, bad and ugly design, but ok it is pretty fast, third place is the HTC Droid Eris – which by the way has a much nicer design than the Motorola Droid and is cheaper, but not quite as fast as the Motorola Droid and not at all as fast as my iPhone 3GS, and the last place took my Blackberry Storm which was considering the idea of going to a website or not way after all the phones had downloaded the page… pretty slow, clicks bad, freezes, not well designed, and just plain worst phone ever except for the awesome flash it has when taking pictures and because i must have a blackberry to work for before mentioned phone place…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:18:02 +0000

The iPhone versus Droid war reminds me of the late 80′s when Apple, Amiga, Atari, and the PC (Microsoft basically) were at war on the home computer front. The only OS with pre-emptive multi-tasking at that time was the Amiga OS. Steve Jobbs was reportedly not too concerned about Microsoft but was absolutely scared of the Amiga’s capabilities. Needless to say, Microsoft began their domination heading into the 90′s. Amiga crashed and burned because of poor management (at Commodore), poor marketing, and problems in product development and launches. All of those things were true, but Apple and Microsoft had significant businesses in the eduction and business markets, respectively. These kinds of alliances killed Commodore, Atari, Texas Instruments, Leading Edge, etc. This same situation won’t help Google’s cause, either – regardless of the fact that the Android was the first to provide multiple/simultaneous application UI processing.

Google is obviously a well-run company and they had a great technology in the Android OS, but Google does not have a foot hold in education or in business. For a lot of young people, Apple is really the ‘happening’ product, be it in education, entertainment, or social environment. That is a HUGE edge that should not be underestimated. Google has to win a larger share in those environments to really put Apple back to where it was (as the loser – at least in the 90′s) in the PC wars.

The launch weekend sales figure speaks for itself. The AT&T ‘problem’ for Apple will sort itself out, which is really not the biggest deal. Has it been a problem for Apple, yet, in terms of sales?

Look, I am biased, because I love Apple’s success story. Apple was started out of a garage and are the true innovators in personal computing. Steve Jobbs and his team deserve praise – for starting up the PC wars again in recent years (in my opinion) and for pushing innovation going into the 21st century. They turned the cell phone industry on its head with the iPhone and I think that Apple will innovate – once again – in hardware and continue to leave the competition clueless. The trick is to drive quantum leap innovation in hardware and Apple has stuck by that – for years – and they are finally reaping the hard-earned rewards.

Sure, the Droid and other Android phones will make some dent in the iPhone sales, but lookout when Apple unveils some next generation hardware. the key is in the hardware design – period.

By: CCOADY454

CCOADY454 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:18:23 +0000

Yeah,
1. Those estimates are off by a good 150-400%. 250,000 – 400,000 were the estimates I saw on multiple REPUTABLE sites.
2. The estimates for the doid, are for US sales only. Iphone 3GS opening weekend included the U.S. and 8 other countries.

Nice poor estimations/journalism. Maybe you need to research a little (a lot)better. I bet there’s an APP for that. Call someone with the answers, if you can keep your call from dropping.

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:25:42 +0000

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By: FunkyG

FunkyG — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:05:39 +0000

It’s not about ‘what’ the iPhone can or cannot do, it’s about HOW it does it.

It’s the user experience, along with the integration of the ipod, itunes, app store, best in class internet browsing and well thought out design that has people buying it in their droves.

Heck, if it was about what an OS ‘can’ do, then windows mobile 6.1 would be top dog.

By: How Many Droids Has Motorola Sold?

How Many Droids Has Motorola Sold? — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:01:49 +0000

[...] first weekend of the launch of iPhone 3GS, so 1.6 million is pretty close to the mark. There has been talk that nearly 200,000 units of Droid were on the shelves at the time its debut, so it is not far-fetched to peg the total sales [...]

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By: wowww

wowww — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:05:15 +0000

im pretty sure they didn’t remove units sold from the iphone amount for returned units either. Personally I think 400,000 is pretty darn good for a US only launch. People seem to forget that the iPhone 3gs launched in multiple countries.

By: seismedia

seismedia — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:07:20 +0000

Hold on there wowwwboy! Before you get all excited about 400,000 (a number still being disputed), Verizon has a 30-day money back, get out of your contract clause, so counting any number is premature for the next 24 days.

By: wowww

wowww — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:55:44 +0000

way to choose to ignore the other estimate of 400,000. Admit it, you did that on purpose to make the Droid look bad. the 400,000 estimate would match your estimate of 400,000 including Sunday and you couldn’t bear to have anything match your precious iPhone. You are aware that the 100,000 estimate was based on only verizon stores and not walmart, online, best buy, amazon etc where it was also sold, right?

This article was posted the same day as this post… no way you missed the 400,000 number.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/11/10/100000-droids-sold-says-analyst/

By: ikisat

ikisat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:28:37 +0000

Like I said considering the bankroll the Pre did well… You can’t expect things to move as quickly for Palm since they are for all intents and purposes completely broke. I’m not really a fan of Palm as a company but WebOS is undeniably good. The keyboard on the Pre gets a lot more bad press than it deserves in my opinion since its only a complaint from reviewers… Forum users and owners have no problem with it. The apps will be the main issue… It’s sad because WebOS is the simplest OS to develop for and is getting even simpler but since the user base is smaller even between official and homebrew there’s slightly under 1000 apps after 5 months. Historically that isn’t bad but huge amounts of apps are expected by all phones at this point and most people have no interest in installing a PalmOS emulator on their WebOS phone to have more apps so if it isn’t stepped up it will fail. The upside though would be that since palm implemented the ability to charge for apps the number has been going up much more rapidly.