You must realize that Google acquired Android and invested in it for this very reason. Build a community to show ads to. A community habituated to their devices.
Yes, but people will still be willing to change to something else if Google go fscking stuff up like this. If they piss off their customer base, their customer will leave them the next time the need to upgrade their phone.
Other phone OS companies should be looking at this as the opportunity to bring in the next phone OS is now, it seems. Get a bit of maturity in there just in time for people to jump away from Google. Make it so that porting Android apps to this new OS is really simple, and developers will happily jump over too.
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This was always the plan....from day 1 (Score:0)
You must realize that Google acquired Android and invested in it for this very reason. Build a community to show ads to. A community habituated to their devices.
Re:This was always the plan....from day 1 (Score:4, Interesting)
Yes, but people will still be willing to change to something else if Google go fscking stuff up like this. If they piss off their customer base, their customer will leave them the next time the need to upgrade their phone.
Other phone OS companies should be looking at this as the opportunity to bring in the next phone OS is now, it seems. Get a bit of maturity in there just in time for people to jump away from Google. Make it so that porting Android apps to this new OS is really simple, and developers will happily jump over too.