One Chart: Why Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. are Teaming-Up Against Google

Here's last year's prediction, made back when Android had under 25% of the market and was smaller than the iPhone. Below are the latest comScore market share figures, which have Google's Android up 5.4% in three months and rapidly closing in on 50% of the U.S. smartphone market.

Top Smartphone Platforms 3 Month Avg. Ending Jul. 2011 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Apr. 2011 Total U.S. Smartphone Subscribers Ages 13+ Source: comScore MobiLens
	Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
	Apr-11	Jul-11	Point Change
Total Smartphone Subscribers	100.0%	100.0%	N/A
Google	36.4%	41.8%	5.4
Apple	26.0%	27.0%	1.0
RIM	25.7%	21.7%	-4.0
Microsoft	6.7%	5.7%	-1.0
Symbian	2.3%	1.9%	-0.4

Look no further than above for an explanation of the strange bedfellows which recently united against Google.

Software Is Eating The World

The tech world was roiled this week by Google's acquisition of Motorolla and HP's corporate makeover. Here's a good read from Marc Andressen (HP board member, VC and Netscape co-founder) on the current state of tech and where things are headed.