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So we have 3 operating systems from three companies that are vying to get more marketshare in the mobile industry. Microsoft has been the long time leader as far as the mobile OS goes. However, Apple has indeed cut into Microsoft’s lead with the Mobile Mac Os and all the goodies that come with it. Apple also makes the hardware, which has been a long time strategy for it over the years in other businesses such as the computer business. Android and Google Android phones will also make a run which will put Microsoft under even more pressure.

A lot of people have come to use Windows Mobile product by habit. Not everyone likes to jump around from one OS to another so Microsoft will keep its lead in the market for the foreseeable future. Having said that, Microsoft seems like a company that makes products for the past whereas Apple and Google do so for the future. It has worked out for Microsoft before, but sooner or later Microsoft will pay for being just a follower and not a leader in industries that it enters.

So we have heard all companies that have tried to kill the iPod or the iPhone or both. Microsoft is one of many which has tried and failed to put any dents in Apple’s drive to dominate the MP3 and phone markets. So has Nokia in a sense (though we should give Nokia their dues as they are still one of the most innovative companies out there). But The real challenge to Apple’s dominance in the phone market will come from, Google!

It’s really not rocket science. If you look at all the companies that have taken on Apple, Google would be the one likely to threaten Apple the most. Google and Apple are probably the two most innovative companies around the world, and let’s not forget the world domination plan that Google has. Android looks more promising than anything I have seen from those other companies in the mobile industry, so it’d be very interesting to find out how Google Android will affect Apple’s drive to the top of the mobile phone industry. But the mobile industry has some exciting time ahead, and I think we consumers will be winner as a result of all these intriguing upcoming competitions.

iPhone and iPod touch may look very similiar but they do attract different audiences. After all, iPhone is a phone power house that brings connectivity to a whole new level. iPod touch is really here and there. It’s a PDA that plays multi-media and take advantage of Wi-Fi but does not provide connection on the EDGE network, which makes iPod touch a limited connected device.

Having said that, adding a solar power could do wonders for the iPod touch. Just introducing 64 GB or 128 GB iPod touches would not be an acceptable improvement for Apple fans. But a solar powered iPod touch would be such a unique device that would blow a hole through all the iPod killers in the market.

It is not known whether Apple will introduce the solar powered iPod and iPhone this year, but when they do, that will push Apple to a whole new level.

Green Gadget, iPhone? A few months back I remember environmentalists complaining about how iPhone was responsible for the global warming and death of polar bears. Surely enough, Apple seems to be taking action to save the planet by bringing solar power to iPhone. Apple will be challenged to implement solar technology on its iPhone device. Nevertheless, it’s a noble idea, and one that can make iPhone 3.0 the hottest gadget in the history of mankind!

It’s true that iPhone is not available in many countries. It’s also true that iPhone 2.0 will not be truly a global phone as it will be available only in a handful of countries. But if you are Apple, you know that your device is truly a global one if Tehran Times writes about it. Iran is not going to get the iPhone any time soon (not in the next decade or so). So having an Iranian news source report on what features iPhone 2.0 will and won’t have is truly astonishing. You can read the whole story here. It’s actually not that bad.