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Without Android, would WebOS and other mobile OSes never have come out? Do the people using $35 phones care it’s Android vs what ever other OSes they’d have if
by skinnymuch 4y ago
Without Android, would WebOS and other mobile OSes never have come out? Do the people using $35 phones care it’s Android vs what ever other OSes they’d have if it never existed?
There were video sites besides YouTube. YouTube cornered the market. That doesn’t make them special. All the examples are one brand cornering a market without having done any exceptional innovation that would be incredibly missed without them. Cornering markets is almost never a net positive for people. I should probably say it never is.
- scarface74 4y agoPalm had a decade before Android to spread. Android spread because Google made it open source, had the resources to develop and market it. WebOS was also much slower than Android at the time. YouTube costs billions a year. Few other companies could operate at that scale.
- pessimizer 4y agoWebOS was superior in every way to Android at the time. Since, Android has stolen its UI (and the guy who designed it, I think.)
- scarface74 4y agoWebOS with its web based operating system was much more sluggish and had a worse ecosystem.
- skinnymuch 4y agoThese are subjective opinions. The point stands that Android not being around wouldn’t have made the world that much worse off, if at all.
- scarface74 4y agoIt’s very objective that Palm’s interface wasn’t as responsive as Androids. It’s processor couldn’t handle a web based os.
- skinnymuch 4y agoThe world wouldn’t have been negatively affected much if Android wasn’t around. Why would the world be helped with Google controlling the majority of smart phones with a superior OS vs an inferior OS controlled by an independent Palm? The world would be much better.