At the beginning of the week I was surprised to see an email that read that Google would buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.  Not only is this a great move on Google’s behalf, it will really shake things up in the mobile sector of the industry.

Why?

• Over 25,000 patents gained
• Hardware company at Google’s fingertips

Google has been the “Cinderella” OS of sorts, because it began small but it started to gain more and more market share.  People simply began to grow tired of Apple, thinking that they own the industry.  Apple has to be the most cocky of all technological companies.  On the other hand, their cockiness comes with their great innovations; yet, no matter how great the appear to be they still only manage to capture a small sector of the computing world.  Although, when it comes to the mobile industry after Google’s big purchase, I see it being an all out war between iOS and Google’s Android.  WebOS and Windows Phone 7 just do not stand a chance after this…..and let’s not forget about the struggling Blackberry OS.

Is it time to throw in the towel?

Winner: Google

Thanks to the invention of the Apple iPad, the world believes that everything should be an app and that your desktop should look like a children’s playground.  This is not how business professionals see it.  Being a power user, I enjoy a daunting task on one of my PCs every now and again.  With the advent of latest Mac OS X update, Lion, it seems like you can flush technological goodness goodbye, right?

No.

Meet Windows 7, not only is this operating system easy and fun to use, it does not look like my 6 year old niece should be able to access anything in my system.  However, let’s not argue with Apple’s marketing strategies here, make a product (iOS) that succeeds and why not run with it.  We all know that Apple has the LOWEST PC market-share and the only thing that they have created is a successful mobile campaign so why not port that?

Windows 8 is supposed to be taking on this “tile” theme, however, unlike Apple, Microsoft will not make that the only way that you can use the system.

Bottom line: I am all for having an easy to use system; yet, a computer is a sophisticated machine, it is only so dumb that you can make it LOOK before you hit it’s nerves.  Win for Microsoft.

Every day it seems like Apple Co. is pushing for a ban on this and taking legal action on that!  Why?  Well, since Apple already has a laughable 12% in the PC market, no wonder they are fighting for their slumping mobile market because it is the ONLY place where they can keep up(and lately they’ve been doing a terrible job at THAT as well).

When the Apple iPhone was first released there was a tremendous amount of early adopters, while everyone else hopped on the bandwagon post App-Store.  For the next few years Apple dominated the mobile scheme, Windows Mobile was terrible and lacked features while it seemed Apple had finally found their niche.  However, what is a market without competition?  Nothing.  Microsoft competes with Apple and Linux on the desktop side of things, while Apple would now compete with the rising Android OS.  Android had several things on it’s side though:

• Built on Linux
• Not limited to one carrier
• Not limited to one device
• Advanced multi-tasking

Apple could boast on none of these things, except for the fact that they had cute little apps.  Android continued to surge and has taken over the mobile market, currently holding the top spot in the US.  How could this be so?  Every carrier has their flagship Android devices, while Apple just ported the iPhone to Verizon(a better network, that should’ve had the device in the beginning since AT&T proved incapable of maintaining).

In addition to the iPhone, Apple released it’s big brother, the iPad.  The happened to be the EXACT same device with a larger screen that you couldn’t talk on.  It rose to popularity;however, the competition rose to the occasion and created equally and in some cases more powerful devices to compete.  So, why can’t Apple handle competition in the market?

Bottom line:  Apple wants to succeed in something, so why not start pushing everyone, who makes a superior product, to the wolves if they get frightened?