Comment by skc
8 years ago
So that's Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft that failed with phones.
I think it's safe to say we will never see a viable third option in mobile.
Might as well start thinking of the next great paradigm shift but even there it's hard to see anyone out maneuvering Apple and Google.
Those are like the poster children of tech industry network effects. Apple was first, Google decoupled the OS from the hardware, and Windows came in two years after Google without the goodwill Google has. Amazon and Facebook are the same story. Too late, not hip enough to catch on with the cool kids.
Both Amazon's and Facebook's attempts were modifications atop Android. You could throw Samsung's skinned Android into the same comparison and call it a success.