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There are more cellphones than there are computers. With iOS and winmobile you have to play by their rules. You think Netscape enjoyed it when IE was default? i
by digitalzombie 14y ago
There are more cellphones than there are computers. With iOS and winmobile you have to play by their rules. You think Netscape enjoyed it when IE was default? iOS have some really stupid rules for browser too, Opera had to hack it. Netscape ended up bankrupt and releasing Mozilla and it worked out well. I can see some similarity to this and for example how the internet work. Let it free and capitalized on it via great services and ads.
What you're not seeing is the fact that GOOGLE make money mainly through ADs! They're first and foremost a search engine that get money via ads! If there are tons of these mobile computer aka smart phone out there than there are computer. The future gotta be smart phones. They're not going to wait and lose the market and let someone else dominate it. Microsoft lost the search engine market cause they were still OS oriented and google ended up capitalizing it and now dominate it. Google isn't going to sit back and let Apple do the same thing with smart phone. That's just foolish.
I think they also want to branch out to hardware to be like Apple. Or at least try to innovate and find new market, like the google glasses and such.
- bookwormAT 14y agoI'd like to add that a near-monopoly of a closed platform like iOS would be much worse that the situation we had with Microsoft. Microsoft had an advantage by shipping IE with Windows and making it the default browser. With a closed system like iOS, they have just removed Netscape/Firefox/Wikipedia/Google/Adobe Reader from the platform. And nobody could complain, because they all agreed that this is OK when they submitted their apps. So if a closed platform wins the current smartphone war, the platform owner could just "turn off Google" at will.