"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
08/21/2015 at 21:05 • Filed to: None
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"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
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So is RIM’s steer towards Android.
However, the global Android market share is getting too damn high.
As an Android user I know that the pros of the system vastly outnumber the cons, but a company moving towards monopoly is something I am against.
The hope is Microsoft, and their ability to convince other companies to embrace Windows on their phones. A company who’s phones could steal some buyers from Android phones, and improve Microsoft’s own Lumia phones, by competing with them.
Technically, the ideal candidate would be LG. LG has a decent global market share, bigger than the share of companies like Motorola, Sony or HTC, but will always be “the other Korean, Android OEM “. Moving to the Windows ecosystem would also give LG more freedom, because it moves to a far less crowded place than the current Android ecosystem.
Rico
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08/21/2015 at 21:17 |
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I wouldn’t be worried about it, their market share is higher because anyone can make an Android phone doesn’t mean it’ll be a “monopoly” especially with Apple around.
Svend
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08/21/2015 at 21:23 |
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This looks quite good. I’ve just got myself a BB Classic Q20 in the last month and love it, prior I had a BB Torch 9810 and a BB Torch 9800. I couldn’t get on with the BB Q10 I tried when I was due an upgrade back last October as they had deleted the trackpad, BB button and back button from the top row, but I’m glad I waited.
I’m not sure how I feel about BB moving towards Android, as long as it doesn’t morph into some trend chasing mobile phone company. I’ve always liked that the phone is practical, efficient and functional and stop about games and all the other stuff.
djmt1
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08/21/2015 at 21:28 |
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen. I should disclose I have a particular hatred of Blackberry as when I was in collage, I was the first person to get a smartphone and I got shit from everyone as they all used Blackberries. I told them touchscreens were the future but all they cared about was that my HTC was a HTC who nobody had heard off.
scoob
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08/21/2015 at 21:37 |
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Does the on screen keyboard still pop up? Lol.
PS9
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08/24/2015 at 18:38 |
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Android’s dominance was almost a given. Apple had (and still has) no interest in producing a value level device. Blackberry was slow both on the draw and the uptake when the revolution began. Windows on your phone is slick and interesting today, but at the beginning, it was slow and horrible. They never regained the momentum the iPhone cost them, and they won’t no matter how good WinMobile might be. Now take t=0, and press play as the value device graduates from being a complete piece of shit to just a few steps down from being a flag ship, and what do you have? Dominance of the now only viable alternative; android.
Is it good that 9 out of every 10 smartphones on earth are powered by Android? I don’t know. I do know that it doesn’t matter what either of us think, because it’s nigh-impossible to get someone to leave the ecosystem of software they already paid for to jump to another platform and buy everything all over again. They don’t call it a walled garden for nothing. If you want android to lose marketshare, it’s not going to be enough to just put something else on the market; you need a large percentage of android users to actually drop their current device for it, and as the failed multibillion dollar push for windows phone globally already showed us, people are not about to do that.