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Google exec: Android will outsell the iPhone
Mobile devices with Google’s Android operating system will outsell Apple’s iPhone.
That’s a bold statement when phones with the new software aren’t even out yet and the iPhone has already sold about 4 million handsets.
The prediction comes from Google’s head guy for mobile platforms, Rich Miner, who was speaking at a conference in Silicon Valley last week.
He bases this prognostication on Google’s open-source strategy for letting software developers have access to the software’s coding so they can come up with innovative applications for Android.
Apple also released software development kits for the iPhone but Miner says there are limitations to it.
I guess we’ll all see if Miner is right sometime in the second half of the year.
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