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the right move for whom? Moto got bought. android destroyed the market for mobile OS due to its gratis nature. no mobile OS can be sold/licensed anymore, androi
by pinaceae 13y ago
the right move for whom? Moto got bought. android destroyed the market for mobile OS due to its gratis nature. no mobile OS can be sold/licensed anymore, android has destroyed the price point.
apple is building its own OS, MS needs to do the same incl. the hardware. the rest of mobile companies are now all on android, wait for google to do the heavy lifting, for free.
- Steko 13y ago"the right move for whom? Moto got bought." Saying the decision to go with Android is what killed Motorola is like blaming the chef for the Titanic sinking. I mean they could have served duck that night instead of pheasant.
- corresation 13y agoapple is building its own OS Just saw this post, and to be clear most other examples of companies making their own smartphone OS have been completely failures. Blackberry had their moment, but they are done. All of the various in-house OS' at the other makers are sputtering or dead. Apple is the anomaly here, and when people use Apple as the example of anything to follow, it ignores the enormous counterexamples. Apple succeeded with the iPhone because of the iPod and iTunes. Those early sales -- the ones that protected it from being end-of-lifed -- were almost entirely to people who had a big knowledge and investment with the iTunes ecosystem. Microsoft has nothing like that.