1. Canuck671's Avatar
    The players are positioning themselves with hardware and software solutions to offer a completed platform for computing. Both mobile, office, home. Both business and personal.

    All the platforms are designed to offer full seamless intergration between all of the products within the platform line.
    IOS

    Apple has an operating system, PC/Lap computers, phone, media delivery (ipod, ipad), mobile computing (iphone,ipad) and an infastructure system to support it. icloud, itunes, app stores. Product line is very streamlined One Phone (iphone 3,4,4S 5) one Tab (ipad ,2,3) One music/media device (ipod) These products are very well designed and are a huge hit with consumers. This is a complete platform already. The only one---so far.

    ANDROID
    Samsung has no in house OS uses Android and MS. They have wicked phones and tablets. Huge consumer media lines, and manufacture many high end devices/parts for others, apple included. They could use this for leverage towards what they need to licence for a complete platform line - (best guess)
    Product Line 145 + Phones using both windows (MS) and android (Google) OS. Tablets both 7 and 10", and mid size phone (Note) - Media Devices - Music players, video players, many many consumer devices, spanning all areas.

    HTC. 41 Android and MS windows Phones. Another google/microsoft partner.

    Motorolla. 21 Android Phones - Tablets xoom and xyboard 10.1 and 8.2. (Partner with Google).[purchased by Google] This will be a game changer - quite possibly be a real pain for the android users of other manufacturers.

    Nokia - 10 phones - MS windows - [Partnered with MS] - but earlier versions not compatable with new win 8. No other media devices.

    MicroSoft

    Microsoft - One of the Most powerfull OS companies, now has a 10" tablet. Called a laptop replacement already. This remains to be seen.

    They offer the windows OS to other hardware manufacturers. The windows OS is a huge net of systems and platforms. Massive.


    RIM
    RIM has a unproven new OS bb10 - A proven line of older OS 7,6,5 ect. A tablet that has fantastic platform abilities. A system that has proven to be one of the most secure for data ever built called enterprise - and a new blend called fusion. And of course Microsoft sharepoint.

    Product Line. 3 families - 22 Phones, 1 tablet - No other media products. The new OS10 is supposed to form a seamless platform to provide complete secure transfer across voice and data.

    Ok summation.

    I can see 4 platforms evolving from this mess.

    Apple IOS - Cloud connection and device intergration.

    Google - Android OS - motorolla phones and tablets. Has a huge part to play in this. If they don't decide to play nice with other manufacturers could force Samsung/(Nokia)[HTC] ect to the windows/MS Platform.

    Microsoft - Windows 8 - offering MS tablet and windows phones from various licenced manufacturers to allow windows interaction between these devices. Windows is a big seller on this platform. Who doesn't or hasn't use this OS before? They love to licence on their OS to others. [Based upon first look - this may be the platform to beat]

    RIM - BB10 Enterprise/Fusion intergration. Offering secure, seamless voice and data intergration across all platforms. Focus on playbook and BB10 phones as the core, intergration of IOS/MS/Google thru fusion.

    This of course is not a complete list, just what I have gathered in a short time.

    I open the floor for honest and thoughtfull comments.

    Last edited by canuck_67; 06-22-12 at 06:27 PM. Reason: [corrections in brackets]
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    06-22-12 01:48 PM
  2. CrackBerry Kevin's Avatar
    Yep. I can't wait till later this year.. we'll be doing our Smartphone Round Robin again.. though under our new Mobile Nations banner I like the sound of Mobile Nations Platform Wars.

    Next year is gonna be crazy.

    Though honestly, there's *room* for everybody to win in here. It's a HUGE market of people. Even the *fourth* place platform should be able to have a big user base.
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    06-22-12 01:55 PM
  3. CrackBerry Kevin's Avatar
    Yep. I can't wait till later this year.. we'll be doing our Smartphone Round Robin again.. though under our new Mobile Nations banner I like the sound of Mobile Nations Platform Wars.

    Next year is gonna be crazy.

    Though honestly, there's *room* for everybody to win in here. It's a HUGE market of people. Even the *fourth* place platform should be able to have a big user base.
    06-22-12 01:55 PM
  4. Rickroller's Avatar
    Platform Wars sounds like a good name for my Game Show concept, where contestants use the phone of their choice, and are given a series of challenges to complete using only their phones. Email speed, browsing, media, gps and maps would all play a huge part in who gets to the "finish line" first (Amazing Race-ish but with smartphones)

    As for the topic..this year will be a break through year imo as far as mobile technology goes..with us consumers being the ultimate winners. Whether it's with Blackberry, Windows, Android, or Apple..the industry giants pushing the innovation envelope makes us all winners.
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    06-22-12 02:10 PM
  5. MasterOfBinary's Avatar
    +1 for the unbiased post, OP.

    It's going to be a great winter.
    06-22-12 02:15 PM
  6. JR A's Avatar
    Yep. I can't wait till later this year.. we'll be doing our Smartphone Round Robin again.. though under our new Mobile Nations banner I like the sound of Mobile Nations Platform Wars.

    Next year is gonna be crazy.

    Though honestly, there's *room* for everybody to win in here. It's a HUGE market of people. Even the *fourth* place platform should be able to have a big user base.

    RIMPIRE will certainly strike back!
    06-22-12 02:43 PM
  7. antheauxny's Avatar
    Only devices I'm interested in are BB10 phones & the Microsoft Surface.
    I'm slightly interested in the HTC Evo 4G LTE as well. But I'm not really into Android anymore.
    iOS6 doesn't seem to appealing & since we don't know if an iPhone 5 will be released I have nothing to be interested in for Apple at the moment.

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    06-22-12 02:53 PM
  8. itmccb's Avatar
    You speak as though Nokia's not partnered with Microsoft and Samsung isn't Google's go-to manufacturer... ?
    06-22-12 02:59 PM
  9. kbz1960's Avatar
    It's going to be interesting for sure.
    06-22-12 03:52 PM
  10. shingi_70's Avatar
    Ehh you kind of glossed over the microsoft ecosystem.



    http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/6/5/...tglass-preview

    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=D7y_sXD165w
    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Uc8c4In3Pw4
    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=eM5pFkNQ7no
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bs9R9-vbeN4
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AkA8jtN-yNs
    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=vyklt1gT2W4



    I think android has the most to lose however. I don't see any notable devices coming out for it in the fall (though who knows). After verizons nexus debacle I think the carrier's barring sprint will be reclutant to carry that line of phones. Android has been having a hardtime in the tablet space and I'm thinking WRT with the brand name as well as office will kill the advantge of having dozens of android tabs on the market. Google TV is all but dead with the buzz in the tv market going to xbox and apple tv.

    Has there been anyword on the next-gen playbook?



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    Last edited by shingi_70; 06-22-12 at 04:19 PM.
    06-22-12 04:15 PM
  11. antheauxny's Avatar
    Ehh you kind of glossed over the microsoft ecosystem.

    Click to view quoted image


    http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/6/5/...tglass-preview

    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=D7y_sXD165w
    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Uc8c4In3Pw4
    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=eM5pFkNQ7no


    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=vyklt1gT2W4



    I think android has the most to lose however. I don't see any notable devices coming out for it in the fall (though who knows). After verizons nexus debacle I think the carrier's barring sprint will be reclutant to carry that line of phones. Android has been having a hardtime in the tablet space and I'm thinking WRT with the brand name as well as office will kill the advantge of having dozens of android tabs on the market. Google TV is all but dead with the buzz in the tv market going to xbox and apple tv.

    Has there been anyword on the next-gen playbook?



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    Sprint already has Nexus phones.


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    06-22-12 04:36 PM
  12. shingi_70's Avatar
    Thats why i said e eryone but sprint would be reluctant in adopting the nexus line.
    06-22-12 04:52 PM
  13. pantlesspenguin's Avatar
    Thats why i said e eryone but sprint would be reluctant in adopting the nexus line.
    Every "big 4" carrier has had Nexus devices (or supported them).
    06-22-12 04:56 PM
  14. Canuck671's Avatar
    oops - sorry bout the gloss over -

    Yes MS is a monster in the platform area - I just figured everyone knows how intergrated microsoft is already in our daily lives.
    06-22-12 05:58 PM
  15. Canuck671's Avatar
    You speak as though Nokia's not partnered with Microsoft and Samsung isn't Google's go-to manufacturer... ?
    Google now controls motorolla. So I figured that they would use those phones/tabs as the android platform. Maybe there will be a more detailed effort towards their own phones. Leaving samsung, perhaps, a bit outside, maybe looking for an OS licence for themselves.
    06-22-12 06:18 PM
  16. shingi_70's Avatar
    oops - sorry bout the gloss over -

    Yes MS is a monster in the platform area - I just figured everyone knows how intergrated microsoft is already in our daily lives.
    No problem.

    And I can't wait one of my favorite times on mobile nantions were after the playbbokand touchpad launch and getting those super long and detailed reviews from crackberry and precentral.


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    06-22-12 06:20 PM
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