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Your comment about apple having this market locked down does partially annoy me. WP7 and Android will be on par within the year. Apple hasn't anything locked down...except its nanny OS.

Hope i havn't annoyed you too much!

Well you say it will catch up however I'm not so sure, the infrastructure of the app store is far larger, 150,000 apps compared to the 20,000 plus on android, both will continue to improve.
Currently the games are so much better compared to the android, my brother for example has bomberman, street fighter 4, pro evo, fifa on his iphone4 while im stuck with wanky angry birds and those stupid soundboards.

The average user doesn't know about tech specs, emulators and the other potentially cool features of android.
Let be brutality honest, the stability of android is nowhere as stable iphone4's software.
How many times has your android temporally frozen? I know my desire has, plenty-full times.

I think apple will continue to dominate for this simple reason alone and that's awareness.
My brother has bought an iphone4 because he thinks its cool (his first smart phone), my manager just bought an ipad for his own xmas present. My cousin wants an iphone because his black berry doesn't cut the mustard while my co-worker had to ask me what the hell android is as he simply didnt have a clue. (thought it was a software programme).

Amongst the average person who isn't into tech, who wants a 'cool' phone that hits all the features, they think apple. I hope this changes, really I do.

But these people are the lion share of the market, not you or me.(sadly).

I do agree that Android's current model is confusing and Apple have the marketing of Gods quite frankly, but Androids shear growth should make it a target for developers whether the lower end devices can run them or not. Microsoft would get my money for taking the fight to Apple in a big way by the end of next year. Granted WP7 is early days, and as it stands is not for me but considering they are rumoured too have update number 2 out by CES in February those boys are pushing hard to get back into the market they so grossly slept on during the Windows Mobile years. Maybe they will be the one's too put a controller on a phone and do it right?