why-android-will-die

**Steveanderson13** · 01-13-2012, 01:43 AM

What do you think?

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/...roid-will-die/

**mjhf** · 01-13-2012, 07:43 AM

I think you should put links in the body of your message rather than the title so that people can click on them.

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**jbibbs** · 01-13-2012, 11:54 AM

He is entitled to his opinion but so am I. My opinion is that he is an idiot.

There is nothing in that article that makes me want to abandon ship now knowing that android is going to die.

If I remember when I get home I'll type up my thoughts on why I think he is wrong but I'm not typing an essay on my phone.

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**howard** · 01-13-2012, 02:59 PM

The title is a little overly-dramatic/sensational. Otherwise:

When Google bought Motorola I'm sure a lot of execs at HTC, Samsung, LG, etc all lost a bit of sleep. Google said they bought Motorola for their patents. While it's probably true who knows what's going to happen in the future. It's hard to ignore that Apple has their own OS, makes their own phones and is making money hand over fist.

Carriers are also weary of any one platform getting too much strength. I remember reading something similar about carriers not wanting Nokia's marketshare to get any higher. The worst-case scenario for a carrier would be for one platform to have 90% marketshare because then they'd be calling the shots. Remember, carrier's choose where to spend their marketing dollars and they're big spenders. So if Android's marketshare were to get too high you can be sure they'll be pushing iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone more.

**Isriam** · 01-15-2012, 05:18 PM

in the end it will be google and android, like verizon and at&t. sure, you can use s60 and other OS's, but nothing will compare to those who have survived.

its just too easy to get everything you need via ios, or android. there isn't any room for others. (windows/mac)

android isn't dead. it is the evil step child, bigger brother, whatever you want to call it of ios. ios is for girls, android is for boys. ios is easy, android is for geeks. theres a million analogies, but in the end there will always be 2. we as humans want choices, but only 2. heaven or hell

**Mayhamfx** · 01-16-2012, 10:53 PM

And in 2009 when Symbian had 46.9% of the OS market share, gone. Android could easily die just as fast if a newer, better OS came along.

**Drillbit** · 01-18-2012, 08:18 PM

Symbian died because Nokia committed a whole host of mistakes. If Nokia had updated Symbian and their phones aggressively, they and Symbian won't be in the same rut they are in right now. Nokia was happily selling the 5800 (their first touchscreen S60 phone) and its clone variations for two years while Android went from the G1 to the EVO 4G.

Android will stay on top as long as Google keeps aggressively updating and improving the operating system while phone makers like Samsung and HTC keeps pushing the envelope for phone hardware.

**POLO_011** · 01-19-2012, 06:19 AM

Originally Posted by Drillbit

Symbian died because Nokia committed a whole host of mistakes. If Nokia had updated Symbian and their phones aggressively, they and Symbian won't be in the same rut they are in right now. Nokia was happily selling the 5800 (their first touchscreen S60 phone) and its clone variations for two years while Android went from the G1 to the EVO 4G.

Android will stay on top as long as Google keeps aggressively updating and improving the operating system while phone makers like Samsung and HTC keeps pushing the envelope for phone hardware.

Exactly!

At the same time, IMO, i believe Nokia were caught off guard by Android, they were still focused on simply slowing down the growth of iPhone, suddenly everybody is jumping on the Android bandwagon and are going all out with huge high res displays, powerful +1GHz CPUs, tons of RAM, developers flocking to develop apps and games for them etc...suddenly Nokia's best efforts looked rather dated and average, Android just came in and demolished, and with each update Google brought it closer in functionality to Symbian, it all happened so quickly.

**TC_Mits** · 01-19-2012, 08:12 AM

B2G. anyone? Mozilla has a (sorta) working demo already...

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**kogen** · 02-11-2012, 09:31 PM

Android wont die any time soon though. That's for sure. And Actually the points in this article didn't even seem relevant to me, especially not for killing off an entire OS, which is currently activating 700,000 devices per day.

**rawrr_847** · 02-12-2012, 03:22 PM

i call bull(;

**Steve Punter** · 02-13-2012, 11:39 AM

And in 2009 when Symbian had 46.9% of the OS market share, gone. Android could easily die just as fast if a newer, better OS came along.

Why state the obvious? I could DIE tomorrow if I were to be hit by a car while I stood at the side of the road, but I don't lose a lot of sleep over this. I'm sure that if I really put my mind to it I could come up with thousands of ways I MIGHT die suddenly and they'd all be valid in the narrow context of being "possible".

So yes, Android could DIE just as fast, but so could iOS for that matter. What's your point?

**DennyCrane** · 02-13-2012, 02:35 PM

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry Bold 9900: Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9900; en) AppleWebKit/534.11+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.1.0.190 Mobile Safari/534.11+)

Is that link dead?