It’s not about any aversion to the system or its creators. The problem lies elsewhere: the fight for third place in the market of mobile operating systems has been lost by all. And it is difficult to rely forever on weakening the power of iOS and.
Remember the days when computers were not a viable alternative to Windows? A website przeglądało in Internet Explorer, because they were just in the browser written? They were not good times. And not even because Microsoft’s products have a lot of faults. It was a lack of alternatives. Those were the days in which for the operating system and office suite to the computer you paid a lot of money. Because there was who compete on price. Except for hobbyists and enthusiasts, our choices were Windows and Office on one side, and on the other … their pirated, unlicensed editions.
Today we have a completely different situation. Even Microsoft Office, still considered the standard for office, has several quite popular and functional alternatives. Competition is good, always. Even if the market leader offering good products at the right price. The situation in the personal computer market is relatively healthy.
We remember …
is completely different it looks like the market for mobile operating systems
The barrier for the award-enormous popularity the iPhone OS / iOS and Android was supposed to be. Hastily converted into an operating system that was originally meant to manage digital cameras, then had to manage phones like BlackBerry to finally make his debut as a platform for touch-screen phones. And this oddity at the beginning of selling a miserable, but over time … anyway, you do not have to explain.
Market mobile governs and divides Android, and like the iPhone still outperforms any competition when it comes to comparing it with any another model phone, so iOS is already very weak counterbalance to Google’s system, though very heavily dug-in position. The solution could be a third player, and the best is yet a fourth and fifth. Volunteers were many. No one failed. Even the director of the BlackBerry admitted that the system BlackBerry 10 is maintained only because of the existing customers, and the company eventually completely change to Android.
BlackBerry Priv. Instead of BlackBerry OS 10, Google’s Android.
Even Windows Phone, with the giant support of having huge experience in the IT industry companies fell ignominiously, becoming something of a side project of Microsoft, waiting for the better for times myself. It might Firefox OS? Mozilla itself-he pedaled. Sailfish? It promises to be a great pity that the authors are on the brink of bankruptcy. This may Tizen? Or Ubuntu? I ask you …
There is one chance, one way to solve the problem
The openness of Android is one of its greatest strengths and weaknesses. With this openness enthusiasts and, above all OEMs can customize it to your needs, offering a variety of experiences to theory, the same platform. Still, few choose to select AOSP instead of Android, so the version of the system that is devoid of closed services and applications from Google and which must be offered due to the various hooks in the licenses of components that Android uses.
It is not without reason. Google Maps, Gmail and Google Search are products somewhat excellent, and it’s hard for a better repository of content and applications that Play Store. Or at least that was until relatively recently. With Android, Google deprived but you can use successfully. At its Nexus 7 actually just I use YouTube (because it has no alternatives), Google Search (because competition is weak) and the Play Store (laziness). The rest comes from other manufacturers, and let them serve as examples of Opera Mobile and Microsoft Outlook. This is not an unpleasant experience, I assure you. In fact, each strictly google’owy item is for substitution.
Android with TouchWiz was completely rebuilt by Samsung
But back to this openness. Often operating systems from different manufacturers say “Android overlay”. Sometimes it’s “TouchWiz overlay” time “overlay HTC Sense” … the term “overlay” is quite confusing. Suggests that it is only the visual and included in crapware . Nothing could be further from the truth. Processing go much deeper, often even in the internal structure of the system, if the manufacturer is no a better idea. Samsung even offers very own web browser (blocking ads) instead of the system of Android (by way of explanation: I do not mean the Chrome, a creature called “Android Browser”). If the manufacturer claims that the phone will receive an update to Android Lollipop, we can be sure that all the APIs provided by Google generation system will work. But that’s basically the end.
pipe dream?
For the time being unrealistic, but imagine a situation in which big manufacturers use the AOSP for their own purposes. Examples Although we already have, there are two and a half, all this disaster. The first is the Nokia (and Nokia X), the other devices Fire from Amazon, and said half is based on Cyanogen Android system. But it is hard not to get the impression that the reason for the defeat of these devices was not an operating system, and the badness of the equipment itself and / or producers.
Fire OS , built on AOSP, did not achieve the success
My dream is to really strong players in the market such as LG and Samsung have used their power and began to offer Android devices, but without Google ‘and. For if, as claimed BlackBerry, “Android and its applications is the only way”, let though they themselves earn more on that. Just to Google in control of a smaller part of the market. What would be beneficial for all concerned, with the exception of Google, of course.
I’m afraid that the only sensible way out of the situation. Neither Microsoft nor the BlackBerry, nor anyone else was able to threaten Google to market mobile, and I’m afraid and the power of Apple, looking after its recent products, will begin to droop towards the end. And if you can not beat Android from outside, tear it from the inside may be the only viable future.
Especially that at some point Google may have nothing to resist commute mobile divisions of Huawei, Samsung and LG in their sub-contractors. I do not think that it was in their interest.
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