Sundar Pichai: "We need to make sure Android is the better choice."

[Bateluer]

http://www.cnet.com/news/googles-head-of-android-apple-should-temper-its-criticism/#ftag=CAD590a51e

Of Cook's criticisms, Pichai offered this: "You have to be careful when you make a $100,000 Mercedes car not to look at the rest of the automotive industry and make comments on it."

So often, Apple is compared to BMW or Mercedes. But is Android really the rest of the industry? Microsoft would like to disagree. Moreover, Samsung's creation of Tizen might suggest that leaving a vast proportion of the mobile industry in the hands of Google isn't necessarily the ideal future.

Have to agree. Apple's close mindedness is part of the reason why they've fallen so far behind their competition in the present. BMW makes a premium car, but they're definitely paying attention to what Ford, Honda, Toyota, GM, VW, etc, are doing.

Whether the CNet article is correct about suggesting there'll be multiple smartphone OSs in the future, I sincerely doubt. There's going be 2 relatively comparable platforms, and a distant, struggling third. Right now, thats Android and iOS, followed by Windows Phone. There's not really room for say, 6 platforms. Developers aren't going to be keen on writing their apps for 6 different operating systems, then submitting to more than 6 curated app stores, then maintaining each of them.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

yep tizen, firefox and fireOS dont have much of a chance if you axe me. a lot is determined by what carriers allow though, it really limits the market for devices if verizon doesnt support them

 

[gar655]

Apple hasn't fallen anywhere.

 

[postmortemIA]

Apple hasn't fallen anywhere.

yes it has, every day looks more like android: it is settling for bigger devices and every iOS iteration brings cool android features.

android has its own problems too. right now it looks like Windows XP did in 2001: lots of crapware, poor support, poor security. Whoever makes Android phone, tries to forget it and move to the next product.

 

[Bateluer]

yes it has, every day looks more like android: it is settling for bigger devices and every iOS iteration brings cool android features.

android has its own problems too. right now it looks like Windows XP did in 2001: lots of crapware, poor support, poor security. Whoever makes Android phone, tries to forget it and move to the next product.

I think you'll find that very false with a little investigation.

 

[podspi]

I think you'll find that very false with a little investigation.

Yea, I'd say Android is totally at the Win 98/ME level, not XP :biggrin:


I know, I know, everybody's phone here never crashes or lags, but when I see non-techies w/ Android phones, they very often have a ton of things running in the background /w persistent notifications, and crashes (moreso than lag nowadays) is an issue.

While I don't think I would (or even could) switch from Android ATM -- from experience WP7 and WP8 are more reliable. They also do less so, it's a tradeoff.

 

[TerryMathews]

Yea, I'd say Android is totally at the Win 98/ME level, not XP :biggrin:


I know, I know, everybody's phone here never crashes or lags, but when I see non-techies w/ Android phones, they very often have a ton of things running in the background /w persistent notifications, and crashes (moreso than lag nowadays) is an issue.

While I don't think I would (or even could) switch from Android ATM -- from experience WP7 and WP8 are more reliable. They also do less so, it's a tradeoff.

Android is the only mobile OS shipping on consumer devices which is a full OS. For some people that's a good thing, for others its not. Cars aren't 1 size fits all, why should mobile devices be?

I personally can't stand the iPhone, its far too limited. Mom wanted a smartphone? iPhone, hands down.

If I could change one thing on Android, I wish it had a configurable option where it suspended tasks not in the foreground a la iPhone. There are times where I would prefer the battery savings vs the convenience of background apps. I know you can kill them, but sometimes they come back.