*Apple Inc. is working on new versions of the iPhone that are aimed at slowing the advance of competing handsets based on Google Inc.’s Android software, according to people who have been briefed on the plans.
One version would be cheaper and smaller than the most recent iPhone, said a person who has seen a prototype and asked not to be identified because the plans haven’t been made public. Apple also is developing technology that makes it easier to use the iPhone on multiple wireless networks, two people said.
“Instead of targeting 25 percent of the global mobile- phone market, Apple would be going after 100 percent,” said Charlie Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co. in New York, who has a “buy” rating on Apple shares.
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This would never fly, at least not while Steve Jobs is still alive. But it would be a winner if they ever dare to do it.
Why not release an Android iPhone? And price it to compete with the other Android phones.
You can’t beat them, join them.
Nokia pretty much did the same with Microsoft. They now talking with Microsoft to use their operating system. Remember that Nokia had the largest share of the phone operating system market, that is before Android. But I still don’t understand why they didn’t just adopt Android too. It would be cheaper, and they would sell a lot of phones.
I guess everyone would rather hate on Google.