Bullshit. Android has one job and one job only. It is there to kill iOS. Why does Google want to kill iOS? Because it makes money on ads and if Apple controls

Bullshit. Android has one job and one job only. It is there to kill iOS. Why does Google want to kill iOS? Because it makes money on ads and if Apple controls the entire high-end mobile platform - they've got Google's future by the balls and they can squeeze them or their competitors for all they're worth. So what does Google do? It commoditizes the complement just like Microsoft did to kill Netscape - aka the introduction of a free alternative - IE. You release some product for free - probably the cash cow of another company (iOS/Netscape vs. Android/IE). You push industry wide adoption across competing interests that absolutely loathe the competitor or you squeeze them until they adopt it as an industry standard. You now turn the cash cow into a free/undifferentiated product that quickly assumes inflation tracking rapidly falling commodity pricing (most tablets are now indistinguishable - as is the software - prepare the squeeze). This pushes your competitor's cash over into your business model (licenses/search). Android is an astonishing success with billions of devices activated, and a growth rate that is in excess of iOS by an order of magnitude. It is already well on the way to killing iOS and the entire Apple platform. Apple is dead. Long live iOS! It was good while it lasted.