Like Microsoft, Goofle is now going to try to copy Apple with the OSX/iOS thing as well as desktop, tablet, phone, notebook, home spy doodads, and convergence devices. And they'll suck.
Not defending Google in anyways, but to be fair 23.5% of Google Play users is roughly similar to 100% of App Store users if you convert it to headcount.
If fast timely security updates are important (and they should be) you have two choices: An iPhone or a Nexus. Otherwise you're at some third party manufacturers mercy.
Not marked as an Editorial, despite the snark being more prominent than the actual reporting? Come on Dan, it's possible to relate news without injecting the same old bashing of anything that isn't Apple.
It's a typical garbage "article" from DED. What do you expect?
Well, it's not really that simple. When I say Car OS I don't mean Android Auto APIs and such. I mean something much deeper.
Many cars today are based on QNX RTOS with various custom modules to support different manufacturer's ecosystem.
I am talking about a solid modern operating system with an advanced Car Framework where different manufacturers can override different functions to fit their needs. For that, you would need a huge team of automotive and security experts to develop and test such a framework.
It would need to cover all sorts of advanced automotive functions including computer vision and autonomous driving etc...
Android *might* be coming to PC platform. But that is 2017, I think both Microsoft and Apple are well prepared.
Microsoft is already working on Office everywhere and Cloud. Hopefully Bing and other things like AI, Enterprise Email Server should allow them to survive or even grow beyond what they were before.
Apple are either already working on ARM Mac OSX, or thinking iPad might some day taker over the Mac platform.
Not defending Google in anyways, but to be fair 23.5% of Google Play users is roughly similar to 100% of App Store users if you convert it to headcount.
And yet that doesn't translate to a profit approaching Apples. Confusing isn't it?
Not defending Google in anyways, but to be fair 23.5% of Google Play users is roughly similar to 100% of App Store users if you convert it to headcount.
Yes, but isn't iOS enjoying something like 80% of the App Store and Ad revenues in the larger mobile marketplace? That's a huge motivation for Google to get a larger percentage of its user base on to the latest OS, because that's where their own investment is.
Not defending Google in anyways, but to be fair 23.5% of Google Play users is roughly similar to 100% of App Store users if you convert it to headcount.
That is what % is for! Absolute numbers in that analysis are meaningless. It is just as meaningless as reporting how many airplanes crashed, without knowing how many were flying with passengers and got to the destination without problems.
If company A flies 5 planes and one crashes, then it is a 20% accident rate for the company and 1 crashed airplane.
And company B, which got 100 airframes in the fleet, has 2 crashes, that is 2% accident rate.
So, what you are saying is that A has 1 crash, and B has 2. But what difference or relevance does it make?
The reality is that B has 10 times lower accident rate, comparing to A and you can get that by looking at the % and not at absolute values (# of crashes).
Similarly, new version adoption rates is not the same as "how many devices running certain OS version are out there".
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And they'll suck.
Oh, oh ... a positive comment for Google! This is AI not Android Insider you know
????It looks like it taking Google sometime to ditch android ????
Priceless.
The Moto X gets timely updates, and HTC has promised that A9 will get updated no more than 15 days after Google releases it.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-compatibility-document-mentions-forthcoming-car-infotainment-os/
Not marked as an Editorial, despite the snark being more prominent than the actual reporting? Come on Dan, it's possible to relate news without injecting the same old bashing of anything that isn't Apple.
It's a typical garbage "article" from DED. What do you expect?
More Roger, less DED please, AI.
Ars had an article up last week with evidence there's already an Android Car OS.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-compatibility-document-mentions-forthcoming-car-infotainment-os/
Well, it's not really that simple. When I say Car OS I don't mean Android Auto APIs and such. I mean something much deeper.
Many cars today are based on QNX RTOS with various custom modules to support different manufacturer's ecosystem.
I am talking about a solid modern operating system with an advanced Car Framework where different manufacturers can override different functions to fit their needs. For that, you would need a huge team of automotive and security experts to develop and test such a framework.
It would need to cover all sorts of advanced automotive functions including computer vision and autonomous driving etc...
It's a typical garbage "article" from DED. What do you expect?
More Roger, less DED please, AI.
Attacking DED's snark is the icing on the cake. Because that's all you can attack.
Not as of 5.0 and ART, which compiles programs at installation time to native code.
Android *might* be coming to PC platform. But that is 2017, I think both Microsoft and Apple are well prepared.
Microsoft is already working on Office everywhere and Cloud. Hopefully Bing and other things like AI, Enterprise Email Server should allow them to survive or even grow beyond what they were before.
Apple are either already working on ARM Mac OSX, or thinking iPad might some day taker over the Mac platform.
So after this convergence, Apple will be the only one of the big 3 (Google, Apple and MS), with a separate OS for desktop and mobile.
Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.
It's a good thing.
And yet that doesn't translate to a profit approaching Apples. Confusing isn't it?
They like the free or cheap part. That's about it.
Probably didn't pay too much attention to the privacy nightmare that these cheap or free items foist upon the kids though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
Ironic that it was GM that began the hybrid revolution, and would do best if it would restart this project.
DED didn't know about the EV1?
Educators seem to like it.
Do you HONESTLY think there's any other reason for that besides "it's dirt cheap"? That's pretty much the only thing to like.
Not defending Google in anyways, but to be fair 23.5% of Google Play users is roughly similar to 100% of App Store users if you convert it to headcount.
Yes, but isn't iOS enjoying something like 80% of the App Store and Ad revenues in the larger mobile marketplace? That's a huge motivation for Google to get a larger percentage of its user base on to the latest OS, because that's where their own investment is.
Not defending Google in anyways, but to be fair 23.5% of Google Play users is roughly similar to 100% of App Store users if you convert it to headcount.
That is what % is for! Absolute numbers in that analysis are meaningless. It is just as meaningless as reporting how many airplanes crashed, without knowing how many were flying with passengers and got to the destination without problems.
If company A flies 5 planes and one crashes, then it is a 20% accident rate for the company and 1 crashed airplane.
And company B, which got 100 airframes in the fleet, has 2 crashes, that is 2% accident rate.
So, what you are saying is that A has 1 crash, and B has 2. But what difference or relevance does it make?
The reality is that B has 10 times lower accident rate, comparing to A and you can get that by looking at the % and not at absolute values (# of crashes).
Similarly, new version adoption rates is not the same as "how many devices running certain OS version are out there".