It’s all about Apple and Google when it comes to mobile madness eruption we have seen this year and probably will follow onto next couple of years as well. Mobile heavyweight like Microsoft (which once dominated Smartphone and mobile computing without any noteworthy rivals), Nokia (Still hold the biggest mobile users share, but via traditional mobile phone usage not via new generation Smartphone) are nowhere to be seen.
We, the end users are already seeing the sign of changes in the air. Traditional computing and mobile industry just going through a dramatic evolution, today mobile phone isn’t just a phone to call/text; computer isn’t just a computer to sit in and work in excel/word. Everything is replaced by something newer, more appealing, better, cheaper and many in one. The time for PC is coming to a dramatic end, just like how once PC replaced mini computers. And now PC is slowly (not that slow actually) but surely replaced by Mobile devices. Apple’s iPad won’t be the sole replacer but many other mobile device of such kind will soon be the primary computing device where Microsoft’s PC once ruled.
Apple lost personal computing war with Microsoft back in PC war days. Now in mobile war Apple’s new generation smash hit mobile devices gives a head start over its bitter rival Microsoft, perhaps Steve Jobs will get his revenge after all. But only if Apple manages to defeat its new rival Google, whose mobile operating system, called Android, has emerged as the biggest rival to Apple. It’s not just the device of computing that changing but as well what’s inside the device is changing as well- bottom-line whole computing thingy is changing. Google being Apple’s rival in mobile war prove that point, as Google itself do not produce Mobile device instead its mobile OS, Android (which is open source) are being used by Mobile vendors on their devices; On the contrary Apple itself produce/OEM the device(s) with its own brand of OS. So you can say mobile war being mobile OS war 
According to Google’s latest numbers from its I/O conference, the company is activating approximately 100,000 new Android-based phones per day, or 9 million devices per quarter. Apple, by contrast, shipped 8.75 million iPhones last quarter. According to NPD data released in May, 2010 Android has taken second-place spot behind RIM’s OS in terms of Smartphone operating systems used. Apple allegedly trails seven percent behind Android at 21 percent. But it’s also true that Apple receives more than 15,000 new application submissions each week (iPod, iPhone and iPad combine), which are around 4 times more applications than what Android platform get.
So the scenario is in mobile war Blackberry holding the top spot with its RIM OS (for now!), Apple trailing behind RIM with its huge and variant application platform and amazing two devices (iPhone and iPad), Google coming dangerously close to Apple with its moderate platform and open source Android OS in partner with growing mobile device manufacturers.
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