Comment by dannyr
12 years ago
"Even the Android hegemon, which supposedly poses an existential threat, could easily fracture if Samsung decides to go their own way."
I highly doubt Android would fracture if Samsung goes its own way. A number of manufacturers (Motorola, ZTE, even Xiaomi) would fill the void if Samsung leaves Android.
I highly doubt Samsung would do it. Samsung doesn't know platform. Microsoft does but it still struggles to convince developers to build on top of Windows Phone.
If Samsung leaves, it loses all the Google apps and services. I highly doubt that Samsung could build a decent Map, Mail and other essential apps.
Maybe, but I'd be surprised if Google didn't port their apps over to this imaginary platform. My larger point is that now that a rich UI is becoming a commodity, non-software/platform factors will become increasingly important e.g. manufacturing, distribution, etc.
Why would Google do that? They would be helping another rival platform get market share.
Google is releasing iOS apps because there's no way Apple is going away soon.
Google is releasing iOS apps because they make money from traffic. Android has served its purpose -- preventing Google from getting frozen out of mobile computing traffic. Chrome is the future brand for Google in the human software world.
while google loves android, they live off traffic, if it comes from android, ios, windows, etc they don't care they built google apps for all those platforms
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