“Google shouldn’t entertain any comparisons between the future of Android and the history of Windows,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider. “Or for that matter Symbian, or Java Mobile, or Linux, all of which have struggled in the consumer market despite carrying the same ‘open’ battle flag that Android does now. Additionally, while Microsoft successfully taxed the PC industry with Windows licensing fees for the decade during which it effectively had no competition, Google is not collecting such fees nor it is operating without significant competition.”
“Smartphones aren’t the only battleground in the mobile market,” Dilger reports. “A look at how the Android platform has fared elsewhere only reinforces the reality that Apple’s future in mobile devices, automotive integration, wearables and in the home is going to be impossibly difficult to compete against with an ‘open’ platform that waters down vendors’ ability differentiate their products while holding back the pace of innovation to accommodate low end, mass market volume sales in the interest of spreading Google’s ad empire.”
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