Sadly it often does at many levels. 'Open' is usually ripped off in the first place from Apple, then wins market share even if that means a zillion metal and or plastic pieces of crap running garbage. Apple haters buy anything they can at low prices running what ever 'Open' shit and ignore every flaw while the media searches out any tiny rumored flaw in an Apple product and magnifies it to a lunatic level. The media then obsess about market share being the 'be all and end all' and crown this the winning solution. Wall Street is impressed. History seems to repeat this over and over.
Not sure what history you're reading, but I disagree, none of what you say there has happened with enough regularity to call it even close to a pattern. Open does not always win, and it often doesn't. "Open always wins" is just a catchphrase that has been adopted to cheerlead Android. And now Google is seeing the flaws in its products openness unravel to their detriment in an entirely predictable manner.
Android is "open", Samsung can do whatever they want with it, including exposing what a sham Android's "openness" is i.e. merely a marketing term.
is it open as in free?... is so why is google vain?... "look at me, i gave away a free OS"
Google should stop updating its OS apps for every phone that has ANDROID on it...
make a stand... samsung pay google's programmers what were worth, or google moves on... a tough decision for Google, but the only way for google to show that samsung does not know how to write an OS.
so maybe GOogle should forget about the andriod OS, remove its name from the OS, and license the Blackberry OS 10..LOL. which should habe been called BBQ (BlackBerry Qnx)...
Google has a tiger by the tail with Samsung, which is the real competitor for Apple in CE; Google won't be until it commits to producing its own hardware and not just silly posturings like Pixel and Glass. Time for Google to man up with Moto offerings that can compete with Samsung's.
Samsung is milking Android for all the cash and spending those billions to boost its brand, not Google's brand. Can its own OS be far behind? Not far. How long before Samsung goes after Google's ad money with its own search? Not long.
Five years from now the mobile line up will be Apple, Samsung, Google/Moto, in that order. And that's on a good day. Without its own hardware, it's just as possible that Google ends up like Adobe, begging to be on everybody's devices and sending irritating notes out occasionally to let users know it's still in business.
The Ubuntu phone concept is where it is going. I don't know if Ubuntu will be the one to pull it off, but the smartphone will become the computer, and will ,(wirelessly) dock with whatever and wherever the user is, whether home, business, car, school or retail. If you haven't watched the Ubuntu concept video, take a look. The only thing that is missing is that the screen of the smartphone will become the trackpad for the desktop computer as well.
Samsung, should they decide to adopt this, can have a good chunk of the computer market as well. I don't think apple has the courage to cannibalize their computer business into the ground quite yet. Business computer, home computer and smartphone for the price of a smartphone that will control your car and your home as well.
Or it well may be time for a Chinese company to move into electronic dominance.
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Sadly it often does at many levels. 'Open' is usually ripped off in the first place from Apple, then wins market share even if that means a zillion metal and or plastic pieces of crap running garbage. Apple haters buy anything they can at low prices running what ever 'Open' shit and ignore every flaw while the media searches out any tiny rumored flaw in an Apple product and magnifies it to a lunatic level. The media then obsess about market share being the 'be all and end all' and crown this the winning solution. Wall Street is impressed. History seems to repeat this over and over.
Not sure what history you're reading, but I disagree, none of what you say there has happened with enough regularity to call it even close to a pattern. Open does not always win, and it often doesn't. "Open always wins" is just a catchphrase that has been adopted to cheerlead Android. And now Google is seeing the flaws in its products openness unravel to their detriment in an entirely predictable manner.
Open sometimes wins, if it's better.
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Originally Posted by hill60
Android is "open", Samsung can do whatever they want with it, including exposing what a sham Android's "openness" is i.e. merely a marketing term.
is it open as in free?... is so why is google vain?... "look at me, i gave away a free OS"
Google should stop updating its OS apps for every phone that has ANDROID on it...
make a stand... samsung pay google's programmers what were worth, or google moves on... a tough decision for Google, but the only way for google to show that samsung does not know how to write an OS.
so maybe GOogle should forget about the andriod OS, remove its name from the OS, and license the Blackberry OS 10..LOL. which should habe been called BBQ (BlackBerry Qnx)...
Samsung is milking Android for all the cash and spending those billions to boost its brand, not Google's brand. Can its own OS be far behind? Not far. How long before Samsung goes after Google's ad money with its own search? Not long.
Five years from now the mobile line up will be Apple, Samsung, Google/Moto, in that order. And that's on a good day. Without its own hardware, it's just as possible that Google ends up like Adobe, begging to be on everybody's devices and sending irritating notes out occasionally to let users know it's still in business.
Originally Posted by hzqamy
Samsung without Android is crap
Samsung with Android is crap with a bow made of poison oak tied around it.
Samsung, should they decide to adopt this, can have a good chunk of the computer market as well. I don't think apple has the courage to cannibalize their computer business into the ground quite yet. Business computer, home computer and smartphone for the price of a smartphone that will control your car and your home as well.
Or it well may be time for a Chinese company to move into electronic dominance.