The iPhone Killer

Nokia didn’t make it, nor HTC – not even Motorola; this device unlike the last iPhone killer is a block of laser cut steel finished with a beautiful mahogany axe handle.  The designer thought he would poke fun at all the company’s trying to take on Steve Jobs, so he decided to make a tool to destroy one thing and one thing only; the iPhone.  I don’t know what kind of sick person would smash a perfectly good iPhone, but you have to give it to him the “product page” clone of Apple’s website gave me chuckle.

Kadushin is the creator, here is his official description:

“Pitch” (in a Steve Jobs style product announcement): Whenever a new hand held device, or new exciting smartphone hits the market, a questions roars through the internets, tech blogs and news: Is this the iPhone killer? The answer is always…well…not quite, not yet….
So I was thinking, maybe these guys who make these devices are not looking at the right place for that iPhone killer. Why don’t I scratch that dream product itch, and transform this buzzword into a real product that it’s soul purpose is to do what it claims to be…..
I’d like to introduce you to the iPhonekiller….It’s amazing… It is an open design, you can download it from my website, produce and use it. It is 1.6 Kg , 25mm ( 3.5 lbs, 1 inch) of precision laser cut steel, with a fantastic 36 cm wood ax handle. You can just feel the awesome power of it when you hold it in your hand..It’s amazing…….

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Google’s Android has seen phone shipments rise so fast that they may overtake iPhone sales and theres not much Apple can do about it.  Google keeps up at the rate of 60,000 Android handsets shipped per day, according to Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt. They stand a very good chance of dominating the market, and that includes overtaking Apple.  Unless they make some serious advancements in the next-generation iPhone 4G, and open up the OS, we can say goodbye to the iPhone being the #1 selling phone in the world.

As a more appealing platform to release applications on, Android developers get to avoid the lengthy drawn out process that iPhone developers must endure.

AdMob recently announced that ad requests from Android devices had doubled in just two months, ComScore showed double the market share for Android’s from the third quarter of 2009 to the fourth quarter. Smaato, a mobile advertising platform provider, reported clickthrough rates for  Android users have surpassed those of iPhone users just last month.

When Apple shipped the first iPhone in 2007, their unit sales reached 2.315 million and then slumped to 717,000 over the following four quarters. By the sixth quarter, total iPhone units shipped hit 6.89 million, thanks to the introduction of the iPhone 3G.

With a free Android OS offered up to a multitude of handset manufacturers, Google has a lot more to offer and is quickly becoming a mobile operating system innovator.

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