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So, Android's market share and position has stabilized. No big deal. As the Android phones get cheaper and cheaper, they will invade the low-end mobile phone s
by yason 15y ago
So, Android's market share and position has stabilized. No big deal.
As the Android phones get cheaper and cheaper, they will invade the low-end mobile phone segment in masses and gain some further additional growth from there. But only some.
The thing is, when nearly everyone, including non-computer-savvy people, has an Android phone, it becomes an infrastructure in itself and in its own ubiquity a platform never seen before. Just think what you can do with that if you're a service provider.
- schraeds 15y agoSomething other than selling apps (since that only seems to work a fraction as well on Android as it does iOS). Ohh, I know. Install the full suite of CarrierIQ sw?
- alanfalcon 15y agoIs the cost of owning an Android phone going to ever be significantly reduced from where it is now? The data plans that are necessary to use Android as a smartphone are surely the vast majority of the cost of ownership, and carriers are going to charge what they're going to charge for those.
- bergie 15y agoThere could be cheaper data plans (with lower bandwidth, capped amount of transfers, whatever). I'm always astonished to hear how much plans cost in the US.