Kevin C. Tofel:

It’s easier to show stellar growth in the beginning of a product cycle, but Android is nearly two years old. One could make the valid argument that Android really began to mature over the past year with Android 2.1, so from that standpoint, Google’s platform is still an infant when compared to iOS4, BlackBerry and other mobile operating systems.

While Kevin gives Android a ‘pat-on-the-back’ for being in second place, let’s take a look at two important facts.

• The iPhone was announced at the Macworld Conference on January 9th, 2007, with the release scheduled six months after the announcement. There have been four (4) iPhones since the announcement.

• The Android Platform was originally announced on November 5th, 2007. The first publicly available Android Device was the T-Mobile G1, which was released October 22nd, 2008. There are now over sixty (60) Android Smartphones.

With that in mind, how can we consider the Android Platform – which currently has sixty devices available for purchase – an infant, and not give the iPhone the same credibility? Is the iPhone not evolving as new resources and technologies become available? The obvious answer, based on what Kevin has written: iPhone users expect more from the iPhone, while Android users still expect a flawed experience, because it is in an early stage of its development.