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Why are people upvoting this inane nothing-article. >Explain. Ok, basically android is well known, it is not just geeks (yes there are some technophobes that
by polshaw 14y ago
Why are people upvoting this inane nothing-article.
>Explain.
Ok, basically android is well known, it is not just geeks (yes there are some technophobes that don't, but a minority IMO). It is market dominant. So no, it's not a 'feature' any more, and google don't need to explain that their phones have android. The phone manufacturers have always been keen to create their own brand, over time that obviously becomes more successful. The additional nexus brand is google's way of trying to steer the ship.
So, we knew all this stuff. Google is not actively replacing (killing) the android brand, it's just natural evolution. There is no (more) push to use the 'google' brand like the article suggests, and obviously nexus must be a different brand because it is a subset of android. So, this article has 0 substance, most of it is made up of just telling you normal people don't know their phone OS, fascinating.
- mhartl 14y agoI'd guess they're upvoting it because the idea sounds ridiculous before you read the article, but after you read it you realize that it's probably right.
- piyush_soni 14y agoI read the whole article and that was my first impression. It's really a nothing article.
- cema 14y agoExplain.
- megablast 14y ago> Ok, basically android is well known, it is not just geeks (yes there are some technophobes that don't, but a minority IMO). How do you even measure something like that? It is impossible, so we only go of our own opinions and experiences.
- Kylekramer 14y agoIt is hardly impossible. A well designed survey could easily figure it out. I don't know if any publicly released studies have looked into it, but I am sure at least Google knows.
- magicalist 14y agoIt really is. Even if you end up fully agreeing with his reasoning, the iOS comparison shows that what he means is that "Google has killed 'Android' in the same sense that Apple doesn't use 'iOS'", which reveals how impact-less this is.
- csense 14y agoA lot of us who are developers tend to think of Android as a monolith. The developer's experience is to choose "Android" as a platform; then (at least in theory), our product should be able to run on a sufficiently recent Android phone from any manufacturer/carrier. The fact that consumers don't even necessarily know that their phone runs Android, due to Google and others' branding decisions based on past damage to the brand from certain manufacturers, is not obvious -- or at least, it wasn't obvious to me before I read the article. Consider a somewhat analogous market: the PC market. In my experience, even the most ignorant users tend to know if their computer's a Dell, Lenovo, or HP, but are also aware that they run Windows, since retailers, manufacturers and Microsoft all prominently feature the Windows brand. (And Mac and Linux users tend to be more conscious of their OS's than the unwashed masses of Windows users -- sometimes to the extent of openly bragging, recruiting, and fighting flamewars for their OS of choice.) The fact that (the Android portion of) the cellphone market is different from the PC market is also not obvious, and potentially important. Especially from the standpoint of the typical HN'er: A technically literate person, interested in business concepts but not necessarily an expert at marketing, who is personally acutely aware of the OS used on the phone(s) and/or tablet(s) they own, and whose years of experience in the PC market prior to the mobile explosion may have strongly ingrained an instinctive belief that "consumers are always aware of their OS."