How right you are!!! Android smartphones will continue to dominate the lowest spec hardware, especially in developing markets like China. Because the Microsoft

How right you are!!! Android smartphones will continue to dominate the lowest spec hardware, especially in developing markets like China. Because the Microsoft OS cost adds to the device bill-of-materials, and Android -being open source- does not have this cost. By analogy, its very hard to see how Microsoft will produce low-spec tablets that are cheaper than what Amazon does with the Kindle Fire - and its successor products.