Android in trouble

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3 points·mhw··6 comments

Any company that doesn't consider the options is idiotic. And that's what they're doing. Considering.

We went many, many years with each company having their own OS. Apple was the first to really make a splash that way. Android comes along with an actual competitor... Anyone that thinks they can single-handedly out-Apple Apple is in for a rude awakening.

Sure, getting your app to work on many different devices can be tough... But getting your app to be popular on a device with 1/100th the market share is even tougher.

I like Samsung phones, but if they drop Android, I'll be switching to something that has it. I actually wonder if they "get it". All the Android phone creators think they need a custom layer on top of Android to distinguish theirs from everyone else's. In reality, I'd be happier with the stock Android... And if I want 'TouchWiz', I'd buy an app for it. From Samsung, what I want is a solid, reliable phone. Leave the extras to Google and 3rd party developers.

Amen. I mean, creating apps for your phone if you have unique ideas is one thing (and I think you'd want to sell that on the market to your competitor's phones too!) But if you can spend that r&d on making that phone survive a fall from two feet higher, or making the battery last three hours longer? You probably just got me as a customer.

I dont know why, but ppk has been super pessimistic on android in all of his posts lately. I think he may have been jaded from the simbian/nokia relationship, and the partners abandoning it.

Buy MeeGo? Has this guy ever heard about GPL? Maybe tomorrow someone will buy Linux or GNU? wtf

Yeah. What the world needs is more mobile OSes. And developers will be totally flocking to bada and HtcOS.

Oh wait... there are no developers for bada? What a surprise.

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