2009

Motorola Droid: There Might Be A Map For That, But There’s No Sales

When are you people going to learn. There won’t be an iPhone killer any time soon. Every time a new app phone ( thx David Pogue , FSM prefers this term instead of smartphone ) is announced, everybody goes bananas and call it “the iPhone killer”. Verizon had a massive promotion for the Motorola Droid , and after the first weekend the sale numbers were in. Guess what? They couldn’t even match the old iPhone EDGE.

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Judging from the stats above, the Droid is more of an Pre killer then an iPhone killer. Despite the low sales, analysts think this is pretty encouraging :

“I see the first few days as encouraging,” McKechnie said. “There seems to be pretty good demand — they’ve taken the right steps and picked a good partner with Google on the Android side.”

Personally i tend not to trust analytics and graphs , especially if they are presented by corporations. Somehow they always go up, and no matter what anybody will say, a graph that is always going up, its not accurate.

As i said before, the Droid is pretty nice gadget, but it is no iPhone killer. Especially because, of its horrible industrial design. Something that Motorola has to drastically improve.

[ Thx Andrew ]