Comment by ethbr1
2 years ago
"Open source" in the sense there was open source. Which you could use if you were willing to jettison Maps et al.
Given dog eat dog of early Android manufacturers, most couldn't afford to recreate Google services.
2 years ago
"Open source" in the sense there was open source. Which you could use if you were willing to jettison Maps et al.
Given dog eat dog of early Android manufacturers, most couldn't afford to recreate Google services.
By this I mean that Microsoft had the positioning of an iPhone in a not-so-great version. Where as Android relied on the "Open source" and free side for manufacturers to adapt to their phones, even if Google's services remained proprietary.
Can we really talk about timing, when it's above all a problem of a product that didn't fit the market?