When information reached our ears of Google’s new Android cellphone - the Gphone - we immediately believed that it would be the newest competition against the Apple iPhone. However, analysts Piper Jaffray and his co-analyst, Gene Munster are convinced that they are targeting completely different sections of the cellphone industry.
The goal of the iPhone is to weaken those the people who control how most handset are created and sold. On the other hand Google’s free Android system is supporting the idea that handset manufacturers be charged a licensing fee for the software that they use.
Even the consumers that they bring in are different. The iPhone attracts the higher end customers in Europe and the U.S. Google attracts those on the other end because of their affordable phones and the fact that they sometimes give away things for free.
The Android based phones have not quite caught up with the recent competition. Some of the features that most cellphones come with that the Android system does not provide is Bluetooth, WiFi, and wireless connection capabilities.
We have seen how Apple and Google have worked together in the past. Because of this we may find that sometime in the future the two might combine their products and work together to achieve the same goal.
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