Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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"In fact, why does Google need to be in the mobile OS space at all? Google products have been key standards for almost all mobile platforms as a defacto choice."
Because people like you have been complaining that Android will be fractured because it's not like the iPhone. So they released a phone that's to the OS maker's specs, and now you people whine about it. Unless it's something for the iPhone, it's always a bad decision in Engadget's eyes.
@RMGH
I don't think it's Engadget. It's Michael Gartenberg. Every other article he posts is about how Google/Android is just on the brink of disaster. With Windows Mobile (or whatever) ready to take over.
Over time the articles are likely to become more bitter and more desperate.
@RMGH
Dude, just because Engadget-bashing is easy, doesn't mean you should do it. Go read another website, instead of just bashing this one...
@Theli You make a very, very valid point.
@oldpass56 You do not.
@RMGH
I do not...? what?
@oldpass56
oh...
@Theli
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I can't even fathom how anyone could think that an open-source OS from the world's #1 provider of web applications and search is a bad thing.
I would argue that Google having a full-on OS running all the latest versions of their apps/services, compared with xx number of OSs all running slightly different iterations of these apps (with different features/capabilities) actually serves for a homogenized, branded experience. I simply don't understand the argument that it creates fragmentation.
Gartenberg's assertion that Google has made a misstep in launching a mobile OS is laughable at best. Android will continue to build marketshare this decade, mark my words. I think it's highly likely that within 10 years, the platform will even outsell the GartenbergPhone I mean iPhone.
Believe it or not, I have an iPhone and I'm fairly satisfied with it, but Gartenberg's ever-condescending comments suggest that there's no point in Android's existence, wheras I would argue that they've been the MOST significant player in improving the mobile industry since their launch (ONLY A YEAR AGO!)
You're a shill for Apple, Gartenberg!
@crawdad689
couldnt agree more. Sometimes its just pathetic what some people say about a device.
Gartenberg, were you saying this in 07 when Apple brought out the iPhone? What about when Microsoft went to a mobile platform? How about when iTunes was released? What about when Porsche released an suv? I think you get my point.
Its a good thing when businesses venture out. I think Google probably has a bigger plan to unfold. I dont think the Nexus one has gone well so far, but it is way too early to tell. Sometimes, doing your homework before you write an article is a good thing too. Maybe then you would realize this Android thing is going pretty well, at least thats what the number$ say.
@Theli
What exactly do you mean by "take over"? Cannot be market share, because Android doesn't have any market share.