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Is it genius to give someone your wallet when they have a gun pointed at you? Google's Android strategy has been great at getting Android out into the world, le
by cwyers 13y ago
Is it genius to give someone your wallet when they have a gun pointed at you? Google's Android strategy has been great at getting Android out into the world, less good at giving Google control of the result. What's worse is that when this is over with, I don't see a lot of evidence that Samsung isn't still holding the gun.
The confound is that it's not entirely clear that Google views Android as part of it's long-term future anyway; they seem far more interested in ChromeOS from a long-term strategic point of view, God only knows why.
- derekp7 13y agoI never understood why ChromeOS is on the laptops, and Android is on smartphones/tablets. It would make much more sense the other way around -- ChromeOS is happier on an always connected device, and a phone is mostly useless if it isn't connected -- a match made in Heaven. Android only needs connectivity for specific applications, otherwise can run stand-alone for the most part. Perfect for a laptop environment.
- cwyers 13y agoCellular data is often metered and frequently unreliable, making it a bad fit for always-on connectivity. The original ChromeOS plan was a variety of form factors: http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-factors http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-fac... Which is why Android (or rather Google Play and its attendant apps) were kept off tablets for the longest time -- Google wanted ChromeOS to be its tablet OS. Android tablets were a reaction to the iPad's success and players like Amazon and B&N making successful inroads into the tablet markets using their own spins on Android. Google seems to rather consistently give off the impression that Android is viewed as a strategic detour away from their long-term ChromeOS plans, though, not as their future.