In other words, Android is the new Windows (malware and all.)
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why not?
Android has the most unit share. Unfortunately, the money is in iOS devices, and there is still no single iPhone-Killer, largely because the competition doesn't know how make one. They can't duplicate the synergy between software and hardware that Apple achieves. Further, the best-selling handset is still the iPhone. The best ecosystem to develop for is hands-down iOS.
Opinion based.
There's just a lot of Android devices and a lot of them are cheap (and crap), like ZTE, etc.
whereas the crap bit is opinion based again, the rest is just stating the obvious. Obviously the consumer digs it unlike you previously have predicted.
Those who are serious about software use their own hardware.
Guess I oughta be using my own hardware for the app I'm making then.
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Anyone can whore out their OS to anyone else that can slam together a box, flood the market, and then claim greater market share.
Apeal to consumers and get bigger Market share you mean? As for the top bit, utter rubbish. Apple are taking a backseat by only using their own hardware. But hey, that's what they've always done and I see no problems with they way apple or google do it. But making an OS work on a wide range of hardware is certainly easier than locking it down to specific hardware.
Let's see Google and their partners create a *single* phone. on the level of quality and User Experience of the iPhone. Not going to happen because they can't do it. Their philosophy and business model is the polar opposite of everything that makes for a great User Experience. Eric Schmidt might have taken some detailed notes at Apple's board meetings, but Google learned from Microsoft's playbook, not Apple's. Too bad. But then you need someone to make cheap commodity-ware and someone to make the good stuff that drives the market forward.
You're butthurt their phones are cheaper now? What?
Google biggest problem is their universal licensing and their whole "free and open" policy. No control = lousy User Experience.
opinion based again. And their lousy user experience as you call it is gaining Market share.
So they just keep flooding the market with glorified ad-viewing machines that don't really get updates. But they're touchscreen, and a lot of them are cheap. 😉
All in all *LTD*, you have changed your tune dramatically from around six months ago, when you were bragging that Apples business model, iOS, quality of the iPhone, regulated apps etc were attracting customers and that Apple would be top dog in the mobile world any day now. And yet, since then, the iPhone has dropped two places in Market share and Android based devices are rising.
Now you're essentially just bad mouthing google for, so far, giving Apple a damn good run for their money.
Let me put this as honestly as possible. Apple is not the be all and end all. And Apple appear not to be selling iPhones as well as you were bragging they would a while back. They aren't failing, lots of people dig them; but for the average customer who wants nothing more but a touchscreen, Facebook, bit o YouTube and a calling and text machine, why spend £600+ on an iPhone when you can spend £200 or less on a device perfectly capable of what the iPhone does. Especially since Apple only appear to be supporting their models of phone for around 2 or 3 years before moving on.
Stop bad mouthing Google for essentially being chapter than Apple. You blame Microsofts OS Market share over Apples on dirty tactics, the lack of SJobs and allsorts of stuff. Best get thinking of an excuse, because you're predictions six months ago ain't coming true.
Written painstakingly and slowly on my iPhone.
