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DAalseth said:

A good overview of the state of Android, especially on wearables. A couple of thoughts:

Google cluelessly aimed its watch platform at nerdy, techy users, there's no hope of Wear OS ever realistically supporting a selection of either sporty or luxuriously fashionable bands.

Wasn't that what doomed OS/2 Warp? They targeted the Tech Heads, not the people making buying decisions?

Nice reference to the Potemkin Village.

Wear OS stands as more evidence that Android has very little real value outside of delivering high volumes of lower-end phone hardware that isn't very profitable.

I wonder if the next five years will see Android itself come under fire. Bloated, buggy, and marginally stable, it's ripe to be taken down. Some upstart developer will come along with a nice clean mobile OS, that drops all the spyware/crapware/adware, and annoying weirdness of Android. An OS that just works for a phone/camera/music player/game player. If someone comes up with that, and will sell it to companies for, say $5 per phone no strings attached, they will be a billionaire and Google w2ill find its revenue from Android collapsing. I get the distinct feeling that a lot of companies making phones are sick of dealing with Google's underhanded incompetence.