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I wonder what Google plans to do once, in a year's time or so, Android's userbase begins to slow, just as Facebook's has.
by Dirlewanger 14y ago
I wonder what Google plans to do once, in a year's time or so, Android's userbase begins to slow, just as Facebook's has.
- ChrisClark 14y agoHasn't showed any sign of slowing down yet, still increasing rapidly. If it starts to slow down, at least it's stil positive. Probably will be up to 2 million per day before the growth turns negative, and then it will be a long time before we even get back to the current 1 million per day mark.
- Tichy 14y agoHelp people to make more babies perhaps?
- wutbrodo 14y agoWell there's a key difference; Google doesn't exactly _need_ continued super-rapid user growth on Android. The reason slowing growth is a problem for Facebook is that it's the only way they could justify their valuation (or more importantly, grow their company), other than better monetization of users, which is their other Big Challenge. Also, the hypergrowth of Android is essentially driven just by the hypergrowth of mobile devices (since it's the most accessible OS for manufacturers and thus consumers across the world). The point of Android for Google was to foster this rapid growth of smartphone adoption without being under the thumb of a single vendor (especially one as capricious and overbearing as Apple). If it ever gets to the point that the world is saturated with smartphones, Google probably won't care that Android isn't the majority of that growth anymore.