Google not a threat to the iPhone according to ARM executive

So Mr. Warren East isn’t just an ARM executive, he is the friggin’ CEO. So when this guy says he doesn’t think the OHA’s Android will have much of an effect on the iPhone, I am listening.

I am especially listening since its risky business talking negatively, or too positively, about a pair of companies who both have handsets either in production, or in the works that are based on his processors. The iPhone has several ARM chips, and we found out during the Android conference call that the minimum requirements for the Android based OS is a 200MHz ARM processor.

Mr. East does have some good points though, citing the very distant release of any Android based phone as a major downside, for a couple reasons, first, other companies will have plenty of time with both the info and the SDK to create their own version of the OS, and secondly because the chances are high that Apple will have another iPhone out by then. Smartphone sales this year have hit 200 million this year, and with a new iPhone and the GPhone we could see 300 million by the end of next year, and if Apple has their way, at least 10 of that will be from their handsets alone.

ARM exec: Google no threat to iPhone [via electronista]