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Article says Android and iOS have 84% and 15% respectively of the market. It's still hard to sink in the fact of how strong a duopoly the mobile market is. All

• dexwiz 10y ago
  It's the lack of an app market. Why by hardware that only supports a fraction of the software? Yes, most apps are crap, but for most app developers, anything after Apple and Android are an afterthought.
  • ocdtrekkie 10y ago
    The chicken and egg problem: Developers won't support your platform unless you have enough users. Users won't buy your platform unless you have enough apps. More than once companies including Microsoft have tried to break this issue by outright buying developers, but the monopoly effect is way too strong. A third party platform will fundamentally need to beat Android so badly on platform features directly that app developers rush to it, users get excited about it. The hype has to be real. Maybe that's HoloLens for Microsoft, maybe it's someone else. But the admittedly incremental benefits Windows Mobile has over Android aren't enough to break that monopoly power. Nothing about Tizen, Ubuntu, Sailfish, etc. gets people talking about the cool amazing future of technology.
    • dexwiz 10y ago
      It will have to be a new platform. VR is the likely next candidate. But I don't think we will see widespread adoption until the units are self contained.
  • colmvp 10y ago
    The funny thing is that even myself as a techie/dev, I only use a handful of apps.
• kansface 10y ago
  > It's still hard to sink in the fact of how strong a duopoly the mobile market is. My understanding is that most? markets function this way? Perhaps someone has some numbers...