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Google is downplaying Android to focus its future on Chrome OS
Okay.
What was Google supposed to do?
The whole point of purchasing a smaller corporation, in IT, is to take those ideas and incorporate it into your own tech. Google would be incredibly dense to just continue with Android and not develop their own operating system. The OEMs would be just as dumb. Most OEMs do not have the resources to create their own OS but Samsung does.
When Apple bought Next is it any surprise to anyone that their OS became the basis for macOS? So how is what Google is doing any different? How is it any different than what Microsoft did with DOS?
This is revisionist history. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Google is downplaying Android to focus its future on Chrome OS
Maybe the past is the future and everyone goes back to controlling the entire experience. I'm thinking Atari, Commodore, etc.chasm said:I have some issues with the conclusions this editorial (and writer generally) continually leap to — he’s the mirror-universe version of Rob “Apple is doooooomed” Enderle. However, I agree that Google is tired of losing money on Android, and the way its partners pollute the experience (even though, like Microsoft’s Windows, this was a conscious decision on their part to increase adoption).
The lure of not having to share any of the masses of harvested data from users must be very alluring as well. To the surprise of nobody here, Google appears to be discovering (like Microsoft in recent years) that controlling the entire experience to the best extent possible results in higher profits, a better experience for users (minus the whole data-collecting thing, of course), and generally better overall products.
Who could have possibly foreseen this? LOL
As a side note: if future versions of Android do continue to go in the direction of Windows (a mediocre-at-best system that sacrifices quality for the widest possible compatibility), leaving Chrome eventually as the sole “pure” experience, this would delight me no end — as it would really clarify the differences between the Google and Apple platforms to enough of a level that most laymen would finally grasp easily.
