Android is already the biggest iPhone competitor and if technology and emerging markets combine to create $100 off-contract Android phones, will Apple need an iPhone nano to keep both user and developer mindshare?
Seth Weintraub at Fortune kicked over this latest Android anthill with an article on how cheaper chipsets and Google strategy could align to make those $100 Android smartphones a reality, shoving the migration from feature phone to smartphone into overdrive. That’s interesting in established markets like US and EU, where the idea of walking into a store, laying down very little cash, and walking out with a “good enough” handset, sans additional contract obligations, is a mainstream dream come true. In emerging markets in Asia and Africa, that’s the gold mine. Forget a PC on every desk and in every home — soon it will be a smartphone in every hand.
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