iOS, Andriod and Mobile 7

It was pretty clear to anyone who follows technology that the next battle will be in the mobile computing space. Microsoft, Nokia's Symbian and even Linux had been in this space for some time but Apple with its visionary finger base touch pad really revolutionized this market space. iPhone was so popular that though it started as a consumer device it soon took a huge market from blackberry's business class users.

However this was not sufficient for Apple and they came out with the iPad. Though it did not seem revolutionary at the launch, the fact that 3.5 Million in 6 months speaks for the success of the device. If u travel any flight today, you will find as many users of iPad as u will of laptops. I do not have data but I am sure the iPad has eaten away a significant share of the Net-book market.

This does not mean that competition has been sitting idle. Almost all major manufactures came out with finger-touch phones but none has been successful and iPhone is still the gold standard 3 years after launch. The same is true in the Tablet market and there are a lot of vendors from blackberry to samsung and dell coming up with tablets.

The interesting thing however to note is that this market is most probably the fastest growing in the computing consumer space. The other thing which became pretty clear that Google's Android was fast becoming the OS of choice with independent manufactures. The fact that it was based on Linux, it was open-source and free, had support, had a fairly large application developer base, all made this the mobile OS of choice.

Blackberry and Nokia were making their own plays into the market with their own proprietary OS but the despite it was a loosing market share. One player who has been missing had been Microsoft. MSFT had a mobile platform but it was a stripped down version on Windows and was notorious for the memory hog and the crashes.

However MSFT has finally come up with its Windows Mobile 7. It seems to be doing a lot of things right for example making sure the handset manufactures do not undercut the performance and thereby giving MSFT a bad name. . They also seem to be more involved in the actual hardware design for the UX which could in turn give the users a unified feel.

But at the end of the day, the market will decide on the success of Mobile 7 by voting with their wallets. I am on the other hand looking forward for the new competition.

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