Apple established and still controls the most important marketplace for smartphones and app technology. They built the road and proved the concept, but Apple’s interest is not in operating a massive twelve-lane interstate highway system to take everyone anywhere they want to go… but that’s what the market wants and what it can sustain.
Android may be the second fiddle technology for now, but it won’t be for long. Check out this snapshot of smartphone trends in Wired’s Gadget Lab to get a sense of where things are headed, “One in Five Mobiles Sold Are Smartphones (One in Four run Android)“
