“Android is eating the world,” Ben Bajarin writes for TechPinions. “It is the narrative that is hard to escape and it would be a significant point if it was a unified version of Android which was eating the world. However, when you take a step back, and view Android in the big picture, you learn it is in fact an extremely fragmented Android which is eating the world.”
“Android in its purest form is not a platform,” Bajarin writes. “It is a technology which enables companies to create platforms. Samsung is using Android to create a platform. Amazon has used Android to create a platform. Nearly every major OEM in China is using Android to create a platform. And Google is using Android to create a Google specific platform. All of these companies and more are taking Android to create their own platform and their own ecosystems. There is no single unified Android codebase which is dominating the world. There is no single Android app store, there is no single Android ecosystem.”
“Where I think the confusion in the Android is eating the world narrative exists is the line of thinking that Google = Android,” Bajarin writes. “That every bit of the Android is winning narrative is a narrative that benefits Google. This view represents a clear misunderstanding of Android and what it is and why it exists.”
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