Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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"They've got to choose a name and stick with it early so it become catchy. If they keep changing the name around, the product loses a lot of it cache right there. This is the way consumers behave - everybody wants an iPod right now because it's an iPod. That's why every time they come out with a new iPod, they don't rename it. They call it the iPod. If they called it something else, sales would be less."
Nonsense. Apple could damage themselves, fight this for a year, hold up the product, rebrand it ApplePhone at the last minute and they'll sell just as well (they may further tarnish their image though).
Apple could rebrand the iPod tomorrow the ApplePod, and they'll still sell 600% as many as any competitor. People know the product, it's not just the name. Everyone already knows the iPhone without the product existing, without a single ad.
re: "People know the product, it's not just the name. Everyone already knows the iPhone without the product existing, without a single ad."
I don't believe this to be completely true. You'd be shocked to know how many people ask me at the gym or on the sidelines of my kid's pee-wee football practice if that thing I'm listening to is an iPod.
(In fact, it's a Dell DJ Ditty that I got for $39 when Dell gave up the ghost on its branded mp3 players and looks nothing like any iPod product ever released...)