Posted on 09/05/2016 5:39:45 PM PDT by Shanghai Dan
A picture truly is worth a thousand words:
Google makes a ton of cash on its apps.
They are using the old Kodak business model. Give the OS away, but make up for it through the sale of apps.
It won’t mean much. Not that many were in circulation yet. The battery problem will be fixed shortly and it will sell briskly
I love my windows phone, but the lack of phone choices is pretty much driving me to Android on my next phone.
4 years old and has worked flawlessly. Microsoft did an upstanding job on the OS.
Doesn’t Android have a long history of security problems when compared with iOS security issues?
The hidden costs of building an Android device
Google does not charge for its Android software, but manufacturers have to pay specialist firms thousands to gain a licence to use it
Android software is free and open-source, but without Google Play, a device will have minimal functionality.
Some mobile and tablet manufacturers are being charged six-figure fees by third party testing facilities for a licence to use Gmail, Google Play and other parts of Google's mobile services, the Guardian has learned.
The fees, which can range from $40,000 to $75,000, are part of a largely hidden production process for the hundreds of large and small manufacturers in the mobile device industry.
The Android mobile operating system is free for consumers and for manufacturers to install, but manufacturers need a licence to install Gmail, Google Maps and the Google Play store - collectively called Google Mobile Services (GMS).
Manufacturers can be refused a licence if they do not meet Google's requirements. Google does not charge for a GMS licence, but any company producing an Android device will need a certificate from an authorised testing facility in order to apply for the licence. That often incurs fees.
One source told the Guardian that the fee varies and is negotiated on a case-by-case basis, with one example costing $40,000 for a batch of at least 30,000 devices. A separate source said that in another deal, a testing facility quoted $75,000 to test 100,000 devices.
Because Android is Linux and that is based on Unix, so they pretty much stole it.....
never even heard of symbian, what was that?
“Because Android is Linux and that is based on Unix, so they pretty much stole it.....”
So is Apple.
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Buy and use whatever phone you want, but dumping Apple for Android and Google due to leftist, globalist politics is jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
iOS is not “dropping down to irrelevancy” any more than Apple computers are.
To answer my original question, there are eight companies that produce Android phones vs. only one that produces iOS.
Similarly, only one company makes OS X computers. There is a market for Apple. It will never dominate the industry, but it likely makes more money than any single company that makes Android.
Now that makes a lot of sense..I have an Android device that cannot access the Web without signing up to toms of Google accounts...even though I downloaded a seperate Browser..
DuckDuckGo.... here we go ????
IOS just seems to be a more organized system to use. Android to me seems like its all over the place with certain items.
Just one mans opinion.
One phase of it is “over.” For now. There will be a new startup with an innovation that will start it all over again and change the colors on that chart yet again.
“You can go from $50 phones to $1000”
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Since my needs are simple (rarely need a cellphone), I make do just fine with a $10 Tracfone.
The answer is that Google is not an Operating System or Software company. It is an advertising company. The more people they have using Android the more people they have seeing their ads and the more people they are mining data on. You are NOT their customer, you are their product because they sell your data, information they glean by watching your every move, every email you send, every where you go carrying your Android device. It is in Google's interest to give away the operating system to cheap phone makers so they use it with their customers so Google can monitor more and more people to maximize profits and sell more advertising.
Apple does not do any of that. Apple makes its money by selling hardware, services to those hardware buyers, consumable content, and some software. The people who buy Apple's hardware, services, content, and software are its direct customers.
One phase of it is “over.” For now. There will be a new startup with an innovation that will start it all over again and change the colors on that chart yet again.
Nokia.
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