The Apple Google Conundrum

"The Google Apple war will be the defining battle of the industry", said Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, in a recent interview. Also, Gartner’s Q2 Mobile sales unit report suggests that in the past quarter, 64.1% of the mobile devices sold were running on Google’s Android compared to a relatively measly 18.8% running on Apple’s iOS. This is a huge disparity and a gap that I don’t expect Apple to close down anywhere in the near future.

This makes me wonder, is Apple vs Google really as big as it is being made out to be? The numbers clearly state otherwise with Android running over Apple, and it isn’t even close. Eric Schmidt also suggested that four android devices are sold for every apple device, and also, Android should be running on around a billion devices within a year. Apple may have won the patent war against Samsung, but I don’t see it running Google close in this war, unless it decides to let other devices use its iOS. India winning the Football World Cup has a better chance than that happening.

A more logical way of looking at this “battle” will be this –

• Apple’s iPhone will win the battle in terms of handset sales against most of the other providers, except for Samsung which might give it some tough competition.
• Apple’s iOS stands no chance of going head to head with Android.

Once Apple learns to live with the fact that there will never be an Apple Monopoly, and concentrates on making better products, minus the regular fiascos (Read antenna issues in iPhone 4 and the infamous iOS Maps in iPhone 5), the world will be a better place. And Google, It can just go on doing its thing, for it really has nothing to fear.