Andy Rubin mutant Android army steals most wanted to spot from iPhone

  Andy Rubin is Android software everywhere. Image via CrunchBase

If it is odd, Google Android can Maestro Andy Rubin army of Android handset manufacturers you hook.

Become a Verizon sell a HTC Thunderbolt with one stupid fast 4 G wireless connection. AT & T's Motorola Atrix can be plugged into a special dock, which turned it into a laptop computer.  LG Optimus great and a huge 4.3 inch display go on sale in South Korea this month.

Impressive when you consider that you are not yet buy an iPhone 4 in white.

All of this diversity is where the Nielsen Company, 31 percent of consumers who plan found, get a new smartphone Android said their "preferred OS", up from 26% in July September period 2010 is the squeeze on Apple in the United States now. Thirty percent of consumers said a phone Apple's run to their first choice is iOS, down by 33%. RIM BlackBerry slipped from 13% to 11%.

That sentiment Android at the top in the United States has become. Half of those who have bought a Smartphone in the last six months, Nielsen said that she have a Android device purchased. Only a quarter said they had bought an iPhone, and only 15 percent, said they bought a BlackBerry. This gives Android 37 percent of the installed base in U.S. smart-phones, compared to 27 percent for Apple and 22 percent for BlackBerry, Nielsen numbers.

Sure, not a single Android comes close to phone that racked up sales of Apple's iPhone. In addition, as developers for smartphones with seek a large installed base of Android's diversity of that advantage diluted. If you have a game for phones with different screen sizes, different processors, different sensors and different versions of Google Android software create, things get tricky. Plus a lot of strange phones around Google's Android software are flops.

Rubin, the Google link if his mobile software startup Android, acquired in 2005, Google remains strategy leave the search giant handset, pushing decision-makers from a variety of devices. In response to reports of a push towards greater standardization press, Rubin said he remains mobile phone manufacturer undertakes a wide range of devices to build on a variety of form factors. "There is no lock downs or limitations to customize UIs," wrote Rubin on Android developer blog.  "There is not and never have been any efforts to standardize, the platform on each individual chip set architecture."

It is a compromise. In other words, Apple COO Tim Cook was absolutely if he the challenges facing Google's Android strategy most recently described on Apple's quarterly earnings call. "[Y] OU have several operating systems on multiple devices with different screen resolutions and more app stores with different rules, payment methods and update strategies", Cook said.

The problem:, that diversity is not an error, it is a property.