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No, they don’t want to. But I think it would be advantageous to them to not have Android around. Potentially they could convert many Android users to open sour
by comstock 9y ago
No, they don’t want to. But I think it would be advantageous to them to not have Android around.
Potentially they could convert many Android users to open source iOS. It wouldn’t come with the branding, I think it could be to their advantage.
It’s not likely to happen, but I think an open source iOS clone/fork would be nice and could also have potential benefits for Apple.
- dmitriid 9y ago> No, they don’t want to. But I think it would be advantageous to them to not have Android around. In 2016 Apple got 104% of the entire mobile industry's profit. Not revenue. Profit [1] I hardly see how disappearance of Android would bring Apple any more advantages. This year Samsung looks like they might beat Apple on profits ... due to large sales of components "to a major smartphone customer" [2] [1] http://fortune.com/2016/11/04/apple-smartphone-profits/ http://fortune.com/2016/11/04/apple-smartphone-profits/ [2] http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/27/technology/samsung-profit-apple/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/27/technology/samsung-profit-ap...