Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Sep 24 18:32:22 CDT 2013
Hi Hans: Actually, I was high-lighting a new OSS OS for the Smartphones that currently runs android, without modification from the company called Cyanogen. I was not really concerned with the quality or quantity but if your need those figures, Android, in its various flavours now covers 80 percent of the market compared to iOS, in its various flavours which now covers 13 percent of the market. It does not matter whether iOS OS is ten times better the truth is that next year iOS will be ten percent of the market and Android OS will be 85 percent of the market. If the truth be known I would prefer a purer Linux alternative but at last check they only have one percent of the market and no real Smartphone alternative...maybe something from Canonical in October? Even Windows has almost 400 percent more product in the market...and who knows maybe in a few years they will have ten percent of the market? I do not like an OS, like Android, (or when Windows became 90 percent) to become so extensive in their market penetration that all competition shrivels and the product quality drops. I would like to see no OS ever exceed 40 percent as that means there is still healthy competition in the market place. You have to look at this all in an objective manner...the iPhones and it iOS don't need any defending but the Android OS (Linux) growth needs competition on their own turf. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans-Christian Andersen" <hans.andersen at phulse.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 11:24:12 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Android finally has a challenger Hi Jim, I'm not sure if you are trolling... Android is not a company. It's a piece of software that many fragmented and feudal states (companies) use, because it is free to distribute and so is its development and maintenance. It is the Symbian OS of our modern smartphone era. You seem to be implying that sheer percentage of the smart phone market means it has won the race. That it is the leading product. If that were truly the case, then it would be the platform that has the ability to shift where the market is heading, has the premier software and has the dominant amount of press coverage and so forth. This is not the case. Companies using Android release lots of interesting features, but to minimal effect (anyone here using NFC yet?). It still does not have any premier software. Of the best software it has, they are pretty much ports from iPhone land. And, regarding press coverage, it is no where near the bonanza and almost complete melt down from rumours and speculation that Apple gets. So how is Android leading the smartphone market? I'll admit the pure numbers are impressive, but a big portion of that is for cheap smartphones running an old version of android used by someone who doesn't care. They just wanted a phone that could call someone and send SMS messages. Android is great and all, but it is still in 2nd place by any metric that actually matters. As a side note, I love this quote: "There are more atoms in a cup of water than there are cups of water in the oceans of the world" It's all about perspective. Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen On 23 Sep 2013, at 20:43, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Android Linux's incredible growth has complete eclipsed every other manufacture of Smartphones. > > At one point iPhone was viewed as a competitor but that was 20 percent ago. Android has become everything and that is not a good place for a company to be...they need challengers to make and keep a product great. > > With that thought, there enters another company that is going to compete directly against the Android OS. It is a company called Cyanogen and they now have approximately $7 million to launch their dream. > > http://www.davidwaynebaxter.com/feed/fork-in-the-road-cyanogen-raises-7-million-to-build-a-better-version-of-android/ > > Aside: IBM has just announced they will be adding another two billion dollars in the Linux pot to keep the innovation flowing. > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com